Bid Writer

We’re offering an exceptional opportunity for a **Bid Writer** to join our Smartspace Work Winning Team. In this key role, you’ll shape high-quality submissions that articulate our value, tell compelling stories, and secure new business. If you are someone who thrives on creating exceptional work, values precision, and enjoys working in a collaborative, fast-paced environment, we want to hear from you.

As a Bid Writer, you’ll play an integral part in our success by:

- ** Crafting Excellence**: Producing well-structured, professionally written documents that convey our unique value and winning themes.
- ** Collaborative Engagement**: Working closely with the Bid Manager and technical experts to gather insights, ensuring submissions align with client expectations.
- ** Shaping Responses**: Leading storyboarding and mind mapping sessions to develop cohesive, innovative submissions.
- ** Streamlining Processes**: Curating and managing a library of reusable, high-quality content to improve efficiency and consistency.
- ** Detail-Driven Execution**: Balancing multiple priorities, managing workflows, and ensuring every submission meets the highest standard.
- ** Building Connections**: Liaising across teams to ensure submissions are informed by accurate, up-to-date company and industry knowledge.

**What We Offer**
This is more than just a writing role. It’s an opportunity to take ownership of submissions that make a tangible difference to our business. At Smartspace, you’ll join a supportive, forward-thinking team where your skills and ideas will be valued, and your career can flourish.

**Other benefits include**:

- Competitive salary & profit share scheme
- Flexible working
- Car Allowance / Company Car *
- Travel covered to any of our sites*
- Extensive corporate benefits including, Private Medical, Pension 8% employers contribution, Health and Wellness programme, 26 days holidays + bank holidays and much more
- One of the best learning and development programmes which is customizable to support your career progression goals. (c.7000 training sessions delivered year to date across the WATES Group)
- Industry leading family leave benefits to included 26 weeks fully paid maternity, 12 weeks fully paid paternity.

(*Subject to role.)

We are always looking for a variety of new talent to join our teams, to help us grow and innovate as a business. Although you may not have all of the skills listed, many of them may be transferable to other roles within the WATES Group.

As a responsible and inclusive employer, we are committed to equality and are proud to have been recognised for this through a range of accolades including gold accreditation with Investors in People, we are also a Disability Confident employer. Being a family owned, business means we understand and value long term relationships.

To learn more about the checks included in this process, please click on the following link: National Security Vetting

Wates is one of the UK’s leading family-owned development, building and property maintenance companies. Founded over 125 years ago, we have a proud legacy in the built environment.

We are driven by our purpose, ‘reimagining places for people to thrive’ and our three promises:
**Thriving places** - working with customers, partners and communities to create places that are more sustainable, inclusive, and full of opportunity.
**Thriving planet** - protecting nature and taking action on climate change by collaborating and innovating with our partners.
**Thriving people** - creating opportunities and relationships so that everyone who works for and with us feels included, invested in, and treated with care.

We are proud to be recognised as Gold Investors in People and as a Disability Confident employer. We also ensure that our recruitment processes do not treat anyone less favourably due to an offending background.

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