Bid Writer / Manager

Salary: £42,000 – £60,000 per year

**RECRUITING FOR A PROFESSIONAL SERVICES CLIENT**

The Bid Writer/Manager will be responsible for the development, performance and maintenance of the firm’s tenders and proposals process and activities, to ensure the delivery of efficient and high quality submissions to current clients and potential targets in both the private and public sectors.

This role will involve working closely with all departments and sector teams across the Glasgow and Edinburgh offices, in addition to colleagues in the Marketing & Business Development team. 

Key Responsibilities include: 

• To manage the tenders process for new business opportunities across all of the firm’s practice areas.
• To provide end-to-end bid writing and tendering support services, working with Partners and Senior Fee Earners to draft and develop winning bids and tenders for new work.
• To support the writing of excellent bids and produce compelling tender submissions, creating high quality well-written method statements and other tenders-related information
• To develop an efficient and streamlined tendering framework, supported by appropriate systems and databases
• Qualifying and quantifying all opportunities to understand the cost effectiveness of tendering and offer an informed bid/no bid decision
• To have awareness of the issues faced by client organisations in the relevant sector/s and the role of a professional support services group in delivering expertise to these clients
• To support and drive the tendering process as required, including sourcing tenders (i.e. from Public Contracts Scotland), carrying out research on the client/target organisation and supporting the writing/editing of text
• Collaborate with the Marketing Manager to ensuring that the firm’s submissions and any proposals are designed and presented in an appropriate way to achieve a positive outcome.