Skanska, one of the world’s leading project development and construction groups, is an inclusive and responsible business that is helping to build a better society.
We are looking for a Bid Writer to support the business to submit customer-centric PQQs, tenders and related documents that achieve high quality scores by enabling bid teams to respond to the customers’ needs by clearly answering the questions and communicating benefits. Facilitate response development through storyboarding, answer planning and writing workshops, and provide researching, writing and editing support. Actively share best practice and lessons learned to drive excellence across Skanska’s operating units.
What you'll do:
* 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 meets the required internal and external deadlines at every stage in the bid process
* Share knowledge and best practice across all OUs. Contribute to post-tender reviews and lessons learnt meetings, as well as sharing debrief information to avoid any mistakes are repeated
What you'll bring to the role:
* GCSE English Language Grade C or equivalent
* Degree-level education or equivalent experience
* Prior experience from a bidding environment
* Excellent written English, with attention to detail
* Proven abilities in a professional writing capacity, delivering high-quality narrative to tight deadlines
* Analytical skills: conceptual understanding, ability to articulate bid strategies, identify related win themes, organize and structure information etc
Equal opportunities
We thrive through embracing differences, whether they be social backgrounds, ethnicity, disability, gender identity or expression, age, religion, sexual orientation and any other protected characteristic – we know that diversity opens a rich potential for new ways of thinking, helping us to build successful and high-performing teams. We call it Naturally Skanska.
We welcome you to ask about flexibility at interview stage and we will explore what is possible for the role.
Reasonable adjustments
We would like you to perform at your best at every stage of our recruitment process. Please contact us using recruitment@skanska.co.uk if you require any adjustments that would support you throughout your application.
More information about the role
Please note this is an advert for our job vacancy, and therefore may not be inclusive of all assigned duties, responsibilities, or aspects of the role described, and may be amended at any time at the sole discretion of Skanska. For a full role profile, please contact us: recruitment@skanska.co.uk
The closing date for this vacancy may be subject to change at any time at the sole discretion of the business.
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