Warrington Closing Date: 14th January 2027 Become a part of the UK’s top-rated construction and civil engineering graduate programme. Recognised as the No.1 choice for graduates and apprentices by The Job Crowd and winner of the Environmental and Ethical Awareness category.
Our Graduate Development Programme is designed to give you a rich, hands-on experience where you will develop your technical skills, grow your network and gain professional qualifications if you want to.
Work with some of the best people in the industry in a full-time role, as you start an exciting and rewarding career where you will be enabled to add value to society.
We are proud to be a platinum member of the 5% club member based on the quality of training and development of our ‘earn as you learn’ opportunities.
What will you be doing?As a Graduate Bid Writer, your responsibilities will include:
- Support the preparation and coordination of high-quality tender submissions, ensuring responses meet client requirements and deadlines.
- Assist with reviewing tender documentation to understand client objectives, evaluation criteria and submission requirements.
- Draft, edit and proofread bid responses, ensuring content clear, concise, persuasive and tailored to the client.
- Work with the Senior Proposals manager, bid managers, subject matter experts, commercial teams and operational colleagues to gather information and develop compelling responses.
- Support the development of win themes, key messages and value propositions that demonstrate organisational strengths and differentiators.
- Coordinate contributions from internal subject matter experts and supply-chain partners, monitoring progress against bid programmes, deliverables matrices and deadlines.
- Research clients, projects, competitors and market developments to help inform bid strategy and positioning.
- Assist in maintaining case studies, project evidence libraries and reusable bid content.
- Support the production of presentations, graphics and other supporting materials to improve the quality and impact of submissions.
- Carry out quality checks, proofreading and compliance reviews before final submission.
- Attend bid kick-off meetings, answer plan workshops, win theme workshops and lessons-learned meetings, recording and progressing actions where required.
- Develop an understanding of procurement processes, construction terminology and contractual requirements relevant to bids.
- Support continuous improvement by capturing feedback, best practice and lessons learned from successful and unsuccessful submissions.
- Build effective relationships across pre-construction, commercial, operational and specialist subject matter expert teams.
- Take ownership of allocated bid sections and progressively manage increasingly complex responses and smaller tender opportunities as experience develops.
This role is available for a September 2027 start, with the possibility of an earlier start date to suit yourself and the business.
As part of the graduate programme you will be expected to work in and around the location advertised, with the possibility for expanding travel to other projects and locations in the future. This may include staying away from home.
Who are we?As a leading construction company, we aim to improve the UK’s built environment and deliver lasting change in the communities we work in. In Scotland, you’ll know us as Morrison Construction.
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