JOB DESCRIPTION

Job Title: Bid Manager

Responsible to: Head of Strategic Architecture

Based: Home-Based with regular travel to Sheffield office

Salary: £55,000 - £60,000 + benefits

Purpose of Role

The Senior Bid Writer is accountable for developing high-quality, compelling, and compliant bids that support Preventx’s growth strategy and improve our success in competitive public-sector and healthcare procurement. The role leads the written response process from opportunity qualification through submission, translating complex clinical, operational, technical, and commercial propositions into clear, persuasive responses aligned to evaluator requirements.

The role brings strong knowledge of UK healthcare and public-sector procurement, with a demonstrable track record of successful tender submissions and a proven win rate. It actively monitors tender portals, frameworks, and market intelligence to identify relevant opportunities, supports development of the commercial pipeline, and works across Commercial, Clinical, Operations, Technology, Finance, and other subject matter experts to build differentiated, evidence-led propositions.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end development of high-quality tender and bid responses, from bid planning and storyboarding through drafting, review, refinement, and final submission, ensuring all responses are compliant, persuasive, and tailored to the customer’s evaluation criteria.
• Write clear, compelling, and evidence-led responses that articulate Preventx’s value proposition, outcomes, service model, innovation, and differentiation, particularly for NHS, Local Authority, public health, and wider healthcare opportunities.
• Manage and monitor relevant procurement and tender portals, frameworks, and opportunity sources, identifying suitable opportunities, maintaining accurate alerts and deadlines, and ensuring registration and submission requirements are met.
• Support proactive pipeline building by researching commissioners, procurement plans, framework activity, contract expiry dates, and market developments, working with Commercial colleagues to identify and qualify future opportunities well ahead of publication.
• Apply robust bid/no-bid thinking and contribute to opportunity qualification, assessing strategic fit, customer need, competitive position, deliverability, resource requirements, and probability of success.
• Lead the development of compelling and measurable Social Value responses within public sector tenders, working with internal stakeholders to identify commitments that are relevant, deliverable, and differentiated. Ensure commitments are clearly linked to customer priorities, supported by appropriate evidence, and capable of being monitored and reported throughout the contract lifecycle.
• Work collaboratively across the organisation to develop and maintain a Social Value proposition and evidence library, including case studies, outcomes, metrics, and commitments that can be adapted appropriately for NHS, Local Authority, and other public sector procurements.
• Support the translation of Social Value commitments made at bid stage into clear, measurable deliverables, ensuring appropriate handover to operational and contract management teams.
• Develop bid strategies, win themes, response plans, and content structures that directly address buyer priorities and scoring methodologies, maintaining a strong focus on maximising evaluation scores and win probability.
• Coordinate inputs from subject matter experts across Commercial, Clinical, Operations, Technology, Finance, Information Governance, and other teams, challenging and shaping contributions to produce a single coherent narrative and consistent tone of voice.
• Maintain disciplined bid governance, including compliance matrices, clarification questions, action trackers, review cycles, version control, approvals, and submission records, escalating risks to deadlines or quality early.
• Build and maintain a high-quality bid content library, including case studies, evidence, standard responses, social value content, mobilisation approaches, performance data, and lessons learned, ensuring material remains current and reusable tailored to customer requirements.
• Analyse tender feedback, evaluator scores, win/loss outcomes, and competitor intelligence to identify themes and continuously improve bid quality, process, and win rate.
• Track and report bid performance, including submission volumes, pipeline value, stage, conversion, and win rate, providing clear insight to Commercial leadership on performance and future opportunity coverage.
• Represent Preventx professionally with external stakeholders where required, including clarification activity, bidder engagement, presentations, and procurement discussions, while maintaining confidentiality and procurement compliance.