Junior Bid Writer

Your New Role

A fantastic opportunity for a Junior Bid Writer to join our Complex Facilities Work Winning team on a full time, permanent contract. This is a remote role that will require ad-hoc travel to London, Birmingham, or one of our offices across the country. 

Amey is looking for a talented Junior Bid Writer to work with the Bids and Proposals teams and subject matter experts to produce winning RFI and bid submissions that are accurate, consistent, and aligned to the client’s requirements. You will provide bid writing services to the bid team, accessing knowledge resources and previous bids to ensure the production of high-quality responses.

Bids will vary in duration, size, and complexity: from a few weeks for a Framework Bid, through to multi-stage 18 month long negotiated processes, with contract values anything from £5M pa through to £150M pa.

The standard hours of work are based on 37.5 hours, Monday – Friday.

Work-life balance and flexibility are key for our success. We empower our people to make choices that are right for them, with hybrid, part-time, and flexible work patterns. And with a network of offices across the UK, we’re open to discussing working options that suit you.

You will be responsible for:

• Producing high-quality, consistent, and persuasive bid responses, promoting the principles of ‘Plain English’
• Interviewing subject matter experts to produce compliant and engaging content, conveying technical information and solutions in a clear way
• Analysing client requirements including compliance and evaluation criteria to help maximise scores across all responses
• Inputting to answer planning / storyboarding workshops to help structure our responses and shape question content so they are easy to evaluate
• Supporting development of value propositions and win themes that are aligned to the client’s ‘hot buttons’, ensuring these are articulated effectively throughout all our bid responses to help differentiate Amey
• Monitoring the overall quality of written content as it progresses, to ensure that it maintains a consistent ‘voice’ throughout
• Maximising readability, consistency, and accuracy through final editing and proofreading
• Supporting the post-tender lessons learned process to help embed continuous improvement in bid writing
• Consistently refreshing content for the bid library to support tender requirements.

We want to hear from you if you have:

• Experience in Bid Writing or similar type of role 
• Creative Writing Skills 
• The willingness to learn 
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Stakeholder management experience
• Excellent editorial and proofreading skills with good eye for detail
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite
• Excellent time management skills with the ability to work towards strict deadlines.

What we can offer you

When you join us, we can offer flexibility, career development, a choice of benefits and support that help you through all life’s ups and downs. It’s the reason why Investors in People put us among the top 1% of employers and we have a competitive reward and benefits program

• Career Development - Exceptional development and progression plan
• Pension – Generous Pension scheme which we will contribute to
• Holidays - Minimum 24 days holiday + Bank Holidays
• Choices - Our flexible benefits scheme is tailored by you, including buying additional annual leave, cycle2work scheme, charity giving and gym membership
• Save with Amey - Our online voucher portal gives you access to thousands of discounts from leading retailers to help you save on shopping, days out, or nights in. It includes healthcare, free GP service, dental vouchers
• Social Value - You’ll get 2 Community Involvement Days each year to volunteer for a charity of your choice and further opportunities to support fundraising initiatives

We embrace difference and support individuals to work in ways that work best for them.

We are committed to working sustainably and by working in partnership with the communities we serve, so people and the planetare protected.

At Amey, you have freedom to perform because we know if nothing holds you back, together, we can be extraordinary.

Who is Amey?

• We are at the heart of modern Britain, helping the economy to grow by designing, maintaining and transforming the nation’s strategic assets.
• Our 11,000 people are behind the critical services the country relies on every day.
• Our unique engineering and operations experience, together with data driven insight from our consulting business, delivers better results for our clients.
• We are trusted partners of Government – both national and local – managing assets and complex projects that are vital to the sustainable growth of the country.

To find out more take a look at our website www.amey.co.uk

Application Guidance

Amey is committed to Inclusion and Diversity. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified candidates, regardless of their race, gender, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age.

Please contact our recruitment team at peopleservices@amey.co.uk to discuss any access needs and reasonable adjustments that may be required at any point during the recruitment process.

Apply today – We are excited to hear from you!

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