Senior Bid Writer

Senior Bid Writer

Location – Guildford

The Senior Bid Writer plays a pivotal role in securing new business opportunities by developing high-quality, imaginative and client-focused responses to pre-qualification and tender submissions across Building Southern's core sectors, including education, custodial and defence. Working collaboratively with bid leads, estimators, operational teams, technical specialists and external partners, the Senior Bid Writer takes a leading role in shaping written content, supporting bid strategy and ensuring submissions clearly communicate Galliford Try's capabilities, values and key differentiators.

In addition to leading the development of written responses, the Senior Bid Writer undertakes some proposal management responsibilities, working alongside the bid lead to coordinate content development, maintain alignment with the agreed win strategy and ensure the overall submission is compelling, consistent and customer focused.

• Lead the development of clear, compelling and high-quality written responses for pre-qualification, framework, two-stage and single-stage tender submissions.
• Work alongside bid leads to support bid strategy development, submission planning and response management activities.
• Develop submission storyboards, response structures and content plans aligned to client requirements, evaluation criteria and win strategies.
• Analyse tender documentation and evaluation methodologies to identify key customer drivers, themes and scoring opportunities.
• Gather, interpret and refine technical input from operational teams, estimators, planners, design managers and subject matter experts.
• Translate complex technical information into persuasive, customer-focused content that clearly articulates Galliford Try's value proposition.
• Participate in the development of strategic themes, key messages and differentiators for each submission.
• Coordinate content development activities across multiple contributors, ensuring responses remain aligned, consistent and compliant.
• Review, edit and enhance content provided by subject matter experts, maintaining a consistent tone, style and quality throughout submissions.
• Lead content review sessions and support submission reviews.
• Capture and collate supporting evidence, project examples, performance data, case studies and visual content to strengthen bid responses.
• Maintain and develop bid content libraries, exemplar responses and knowledge management resources.
• Support and mentor less experienced bid professionals and contributors, promoting best practice and consistency across submissions.
• Build and maintain strong working relationships across pre-construction, operations, business development and delivery teams.
• Assist in the development of capability statements, award submissions, presentations and other business development materials as required.
• Contribute to lessons learned activities and the continuous improvement of bid processes, templates, style guides and writing standards.

Champion the effective and responsible use of digital tools and AI-enabled technologies to improve bid quality and efficiency.

• Significant bid writing and tender response experience within a construction, consultancy, engineering or infrastructure environment.
• Demonstrable experience of developing successful submissions across public and/or private sector procurement environments.
• Experience of coordinating multiple contributors and managing content development programmes.
• Strong understanding of evaluation criteria, quality submissions and competitive tendering processes.
• Excellent Microsoft 365 skills, including Word, PowerPoint, Teams and SharePoint.
• Competent in the use of AI-enabled productivity tools, including Microsoft…