Senior Bid and Research Writer

Package: £35,000 - £50,000 per year, private health care, pension, bonus

Department: Work Winning

Location: Sheffield / hybrid

Hours: 37.5 per week

Holiday allowance: up to 28 days plus bank holidays

About Market Infra 

Market Infra provides consultancy services within the infrastructure sector (net zero, utilities, rail, defence and nuclear) to a range of tier 1 and tier 2 clients. We have successfully won and delivered over £8bn of growth for infrastructure companies throughout the UK in the last 8 years.  Based in the suburbs of Sheffield, we also have a flexible approach to working.

Job Description

We are looking for a dedicated, enthusiastic, and hardworking individual, ideally with experience in all aspects of work winning, and strategic research to join our growing team. This vacancy is for a senior position therefore, the ability to provide support, and advice is essential to help us develop our internal resources. 

This role will enable you to gain insight and experience across the infrastructure sector and to further develop your bid writing skills. There are significant opportunities for you to build on your existing competencies, with a wealth of training and development opportunities available to you.

As Senior Bid and Research Writer you will lead and support our bid writing function in the preparation/development of written technical and quality responses, engage with client SMEs, and develop quality driven output that aligns with win themes and hot buttons. You will also review content and provide constructive feedback to help develop our own internal resources. In addition, there may be times when you support our Strategic Consultancy and Advisory team in delivering written and project outputs.

 In your role as a senior member of staff, you will ensure the team supporting you is also delivering to our client’s objectives.

Responsibilities

Work Winning:

  • Lead input and responses for pre-qualification questionnaires and invitation to tenders

  • Lead on storyboard sessions/workshops and information gathering

  • Provide support in developing our internal bid writing resource 

  • Develop and manage responses working closely with subject matter experts

  • Identify and re-work existing content in line with specific questions and individual client requirements

  • Apply client bid feedback to future responses driving continuous improvement

  • Re-write / edit proposal responses from a variety of stakeholders

  • Provide critical reviews of all responses to ensure a quality output is maintained

  • Deliver completed written proposal responses against agreed deadlines

  • Develop innovative ways of sharing and presenting information and involve the team in the change process 

Strategic Consultancy and Advisory:

  • Aspects of the above, but with the addition of:

  • Deliver strategic consultancy and advisory outputs working closely with technical teams across the infrastructure sector

  • Provide insight and technical input where necessary

  • Apply research and analytical approaches to complex aspects of our work

Requirements

Essential

  • Experience of working on large framework tenders

  • Excellent leadership attributes

  • Communication and people skills

  • Demonstrate ability to multitask and adhere to deadlines.

  • Well-organised with a customer orientated approach.

  • Writing and numerical skills

  • Expert knowledge of Microsoft Office 365/SharePoint

Desirable

  • Educated to a degree level

  • Ability to travel

  • Knowledge of the infrastructure sector

  • Research and analysis in a technical environment

Experience

5+ years senior writing or research experience in a similar environment.


Remuneration dependent on experience.

If you are interested in the role, please send your cv and covering letter to us at admin@marketinfra.co.uk

MARKET INFRA CONSULTING LIMITED