Bids Executive

Role Overview

Here at Pinsent Masons we bring together the best people to get the job done. We’re naturally curious, constantly learning, listening, and growing. We’ll truly value your ideas. You’ll be joining an award‑winning, hardworking and commercially minded team, where you’ll have the opportunity to work with leading experts and form meaningful relationships, while making a difference. You’ll get the opportunity to be involved in varied and challenging work.

Working in an open and supportive environment, we deliver outstanding results.

Bids Executive – 12 month fixed term. Any UK office.

We are recruiting a Bids Executive on an initial 12‑month contract to take responsibility for managing the production of practice group bids in our Property group. You will work closely with the Bids Manager and Bid Partners leading the opportunities, advising on bid best practice at all stages. You will coordinate the firm during the process and have project management and creative oversight to deliver the bid on time.

The role can be based from any of our UK offices. Standard working hours are 9:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m., and we operate a 3‑days‑in‑the‑office/2‑days‑from‑home model. As an inclusive employer we are willing to consider any flexible working requests.

• Experience managing bids, including providing advice on approach and strategy, ideally in a legal or professional services environment.
• Experienced in writing and editing copy for client‑facing documents.
• Proven ability to coach presentation teams on best practice.
• Experience managing, guiding and advising throughout a bidding process.
• Be motivated and confident with good communication skills.
• Experience of providing creative solutions to a client’s problems and able to visualise alternative ways of presenting information.
• Project and time‑management skills – able to juggle different bids and priorities at the same time while ensuring deadlines are met.
• Excellent writing and editing skills with strong document‑production skills (MS Word and PowerPoint).

Once your application has been submitted and reviewed, our Recruitment team will share the outcome with you by e‑mail. We typically hold two interview stages per vacancy, providing the opportunity to meet two members of the hiring team at each stage. The first stage is typically conducted virtually and the second stage typically in person at the office in which the role would be based.

We strive to remain flexible depending on the requirements of the role or the candidate.

We are a Disability Confident and top Stonewall employer, a Valuable 500 member, a signatory of the Race at Work Charter and a proud partner of Neurodiversity in Law. We encourage and value different ideas and styles of thinking. It’s with different perspectives that we’ll find solutions to our clients’ most complex challenges. It’s how we’ll deliver outstanding results today, and tomorrow.

We want everybody attending an interview to be comfortable and able to fully demonstrate their experience and talents.