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The Senior Bid Writer is responsible for leading the development, editing, and proofing of compliant, concise, and compelling bid responses and tender submissions. The Senior Bid Writer works with the tender team members to understand the client’s requirements and expectations and develops the value proposition, articulating the win themes and solution narrative. This role requires someone who is highly literate, with excellent writing skills and project management abilities. You will be comfortable in a technical environment, leading deliverables workshops and meetings, working with multi-faceted teams, and challenging subject matter experts (SMEs) and question owners to help develop responses that meet tender requirements.
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- Collecting and maintaining project summaries and value-add data collection from live projects and past submissions to support future written responses.
- Working with cross-functional teams to help devise the win strategy and ensure win themes and value propositions transcend the submission.
- Analyzing client requirements, including compliance and evaluation criteria, and producing answer plans to help maximize scores across all responses.
- Conducting research to gather relevant information and collateral to improve team knowledge and strengthen the response.
- Developing content, answer plans, and responses through to final versions, helping to refine the overall approach/strategy/response to maximize scoring. This will include identifying and proposing value-added solutions that enhance a bid’s competitiveness.
- Proactively engaging in the review process, applying quality control and assurance processes, and incorporating feedback from the Bid Manager, question owner, and/or SMEs within answer plans and responses.
- Working with graphics to develop any graphics required.
- Producing and finalizing responses and relevant deliverables in line with the overall bid programme.
- Ensuring deadlines are met and issues are communicated to the bid management team as early as possible.
- Providing regular updates and sitreps to the question owner and/or Bid Manager as required.
- Attending coordination meetings, updating daily leaderboards to notify the wider bid team of progress and response status.
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