Bid Writer

Location: Oxford or Birmingham

Ridge and Partners is a growing built environment consultancy focused on helping clients create better more sustainable places for people to live learn work and play. Our aim is always to deliver outstanding service to clients and provide our people with the support opportunities and environments they need to flourish.

We are looking for a curious and confident self-starter with the potential to become a key player in our busiest work-winning team.

What you need to do to be effective in this role

• Prepare and write compelling bids. Develop clear concise and tailored responses ensuring they align with client requirements and objectives.
• Collaborate with key stakeholders. Work closely with technical experts and senior leaders to gather relevant information for bid submissions.
• Create structured and persuasive responses. Ensure answers are well structured easy to read and understand highlighting Ridges key strengths and what makes us different.
• Conduct research and gather information from a wide range of sources writing from scratch or editing material as appropriate.
• Facilitate win themes storyboarding and answer planning.
• Proofread and edit. Review bid content to ensure accuracy consistency and compliance with client requirements as well as correct style and grammar.
• Converting knowledge from operational staff by conducting 1 to 1 interviews.
• Develop case studies and examples. Create and update project experience case studies and testimonials that demonstrate past success and expertise.
• Compliance. Ensure that all bids meet legal contractual and client specific requirements.
• Prepare presentation materials. Assist in preparing presentation documents or slides for presentations where required.
• Work with graphic designers to produce appropriate graphics that enhance the response.
• Track feedback. Review feedback on bid success or failure and suggest improvements for future proposals.

The skills and experience you need to have for this role

• Previous experience in a bid writing role.
• A passion for writing and a flair for communicating complex ideas
• Ability to convey complex technical information in a clear and persuasive manner.
• Exemplarwriting editing and proofreading skills.
• Strong relationship building skills.
• Attention to detail and critical thinking skills.
• An ability to work to tight deadlines.
• Understanding of construction engineering or related sectors would be advantageous.

Qualifications

• APMP Certification an advantage
• Microsoft word proficiency
• Experience with Adobe InDesign is an advantage

We are Ridge a Built Environment Consultancy. We help our clients transform the quality and sustainability of the built environment.

Our 1400 people bring a vast range of skills delivering a professional mindset gritty discipline and a genuine passion to every one of the thousands of projects they undertake each year. Theyre the foundation of our success - they drive our vision embody our values and separate us from the competition.

Come and join us if youre hungry to be part of an exceptional team - if you put quality first - if youre motivated by ingenuity and if youre always aspiring to be the very best.