Job: Bid Manager
Location: Scotland - Glasgow
Industry: Rail
Currently seeking a Bid Manager to join a main contractor based in the Heart of Scotland. Rail experience is essential.
Key Accountabilities:
• Enable bid teams to deliver high-quality draft responses through professional writing and editing support
• Analyse and understand PQQs and tenders quality scoring criteria and client requirements as well as the preferences of the target audience
• Facilitate win themes, storyboarding, answer planning and writing workshops. Write question analysis and response plans
• Conduct research, interview contributors and gather information from a wide range of sources, writing from scratch or editing material as appropriate
• Work closely with subject matter experts and bid authors to develop and refine drafts into customer-focussed responses that are clear, well-structured, highly-polished, focus on benefits and capture the reader, while ensuring consistency with house style and alignment with customer terminology
• Work with graphic designers to produce appropriate graphics that enhance the response
• Contribute to review meetings and consider review comments from review team to enhance PQQs and quality bid content
• Ensure completion of narrative meet the required internal and external deadlines at every stage in the bid process
Skills & Experience:
• Proven abilities in a professional writing capacity, delivering high-quality narrative to tight deadlines
• You have worked in a similar role on a rail project
• Degree-level education (desirable)
• Prior experience from a bidding environment
• Excellent written English, with attention to detail
• Analytical skills: conceptual understanding, ability to articulate bid strategies, identify related win themes, organise and structure information etc
• Microsoft Word proficiency (InDesign skills an advantage)