Proposal Writer
Location: Flexible – Remote with travel to sites when required
Compensation: £45,000 - £50,000 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF61154
At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Proposal Writer.
The role
As a Proposal Writer, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You will play a pivotal role in ensuring customer value is articulated in compelling and persuasive ways that clearly differentiate propositions and maximise scoring against customer evaluation criteria.
Day-to-day, you’ll focus on working closely with subject matter experts to storyboard, draft, and finalise quality written responses and submission documents across a range of strategic, technical, and complex bids.
* Facilitate the storyboarding process of proposal documents, producing compelling, compliant, and impactful storyboards and mock-ups that effectively incorporate defined win themes.
* Work with subject matter experts (SMEs) to develop ‘bottom-up’ bid content using various techniques to extract information, including one-to-one interviews and workshops.
* Ensure mock-ups and response documents clearly articulate both features and benefits, and how this translates into value for the customer.
* Work with SMEs to turn technical jargon and ambiguous language into clear, concise, and tangible content.
* Ensure written proposals align to the requirements and guiding policy set by the proposal strategy.
* Assist in the development and capture of win themes specific to each deliverable, ensuring these tie back to the proposal strategy and overall value proposition.
This role is full time, 37.5 hours per week and requires travel to Walsall, London, Bristol, and Hamilton if and when required alongside home working arrangements.
Essential experience of the Proposal Writer
* Experience of effective proposal writing on large, complex, and strategic bids.
* Experience of Shipley proposal practices (or similar) - desirable.
Qualifications for the Proposal Writer
* Educated to degree level or qualified by experience.
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.
What we offer
* Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance.
* Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+.
* Employee share scheme.
* Employee shopping savings portal.
* Payment of Professional Fees.
* Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave.
* Holiday Trading allows employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement.
* ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity.
* Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental, and financial wellbeing.
Babcock International
For over a century Babcock has helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email careers@babcockinternational.com with the subject header ‘Reasonable adjustments requirement’. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working – please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.
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