Bid Writer

United Infrastructure is a dynamic and rapidly expanding business, focused on delivering critical infrastructure projects, across the utility and social infrastructure sectors. Our team of highly skilled and hardworking specialists deliver innovative solutions to the complex challenges our clients face. Our company is split into two business areas:
Utility Infrastructure – Our team of Utility Infrastructure specialists design, build and maintain critical water, energy (gas), power and telecoms infrastructure, for the UK’s largest network owners and operators. Social Infrastructure
- Our team of Social Infrastructure specialists revitalise homes and communities by carrying out a wide range of work, from retrofit to refurbishment, and maintenance.

Equal Opportunities Statement
- At United Infrastructure, we are committed to making every interaction a positive and inclusive experience. If there is anything we can do to support you, remove barriers, or make the process more accessible, please let us know — we want this to be the best possible experience for you.

Job Title:

Bid Writer

Department:
Work Winning / Bids – Water

Reports To:

Bid Manager / Head of Bids

Location:

Clearwater

The Bid Writer will support the successful identification, management and submission of tender opportunities across the Water business, with particular responsibility for opportunities arising through existing framework contracts. The role combines high-quality proposal writing with the coordination and management of lower-complexity bids and framework opportunities. The Bid Writer will work closely with operational, commercial, estimating and technical teams to ensure opportunities are appropriately assessed, developed, recorded and progressed through the business's work-winning process.

A key part of the role will be supporting the effective management of existing Water frameworks, maintaining accurate opportunity and pipeline information within the CRM, monitoring upcoming framework activity and ensuring the business is prepared to respond to client opportunities. This is a developing role designed to provide increasing exposure to bid management, client frameworks, commercial decision-making and wider work-winning activities, creating a clear progression route towards Bid Manager.

Draft clear, compelling and client-focused tender responses for Water sector opportunities. Interpret tender questions, evaluation criteria and client requirements to establish what must be demonstrated within each response. Develop structured responses that clearly communicate our proposed approach, relevant experience, capability, benefits and differentiators. Work with subject matter experts to gather technical, operational, commercial, SHEQ, environmental, sustainability and social value information. Translate technical information into clear and persuasive written responses.

Develop and maintain project case studies and supporting evidence for use within submissions. Ensure responses are tailored specifically to the client, framework and opportunity rather than relying on generic content. Proofread and quality-check submissions for accuracy, consistency, grammar and presentation. Incorporate review comments and lessons learned into final tender responses.

The Bid Writer will have particular responsibility for supporting the management of opportunities generated through the Water business's existing framework contracts. Responsibilities will include:
Maintain visibility of upcoming opportunities across allocated Water frameworks. Monitor framework portals, client communications and internal intelligence to identify new and upcoming opportunities. Maintain a clear forward look of expected tenders, mini-competitions, work packages and call‑off opportunities. Coordinate with Framework Managers, Operations Leads and Commercial teams to understand likely workload and client priorities. Ensure new opportunities are captured within the CRM promptly and accurately.

Support initial opportunity qualification and Bid / No Bid…