About this role
As a Bid Writer, you will be responsible for producing all technical proposals included within tender submission documents across our gas, power, telecoms, transport, water, and wastewater portfolios. Your writing will bring the Company's knowledge, experience, and delivery capability to life — turning technical detail and operational input into clear, persuasive, evidence-led narrative that scores. This is a writing-first role. You will own the craft of the response: interpreting the question, planning the answer, drafting compelling copy, and refining it through review into polished, compliant, submission-ready content. Working within a regulated environment shaped by Ofwat, Ofgem, and industry investment cycles (AMP and RIIO), you will tailor every response to the specific client, framework, and evaluation criteria in front of you. You will be joining a dynamic and successful team that has achieved an average win rate (by value) of more than 70% over the last four years. This is a key hire for the business; vital to ensuring we achieve our vision and ambitious targets over the next five years. Plan, draft, and complete non-commercial (quality) submissions, ensuring a client-specific focus and alignment to the published evaluation criteria is applied to every response. Develop articulate, coherent, and persuasive responses that support comprehensive submissions, utilising written text, method statements, case studies, photographs, sketches, and supporting documents where applicable. Interpret each question, plan the answer against the marking scheme, and structure content so that it directly and fully addresses what the evaluator is scoring. Adopt best-practice proposal writing techniques – including win themes, storyboarding, and features-to-benefits – to maximise the scoring potential of every submission. Craft compelling Social Value, sustainability, carbon reduction, and community engagement narratives that respond to client and regulatory expectations. Work to exceed expected quality standards, complying with internal bid processes and contributing to their continuous improvement. Read, understand, and extract key bid requirements from client documentation (SQ/PQQ, ITT, specifications, and framework schedules), and communicate these clearly to the wider bid team. Interview and engage subject matter experts across operations, SHEQ, commercial, and technical delivery to gather the detail and evidence needed, then translate it into reader-friendly, benefit-led narrative. Review, edit, and develop draft responses provided by other members of staff into polished, consistent, submission-ready content, applying a single clear voice throughout. Maintain and grow a reusable content and case study library, keeping boilerplate accurate, current, and ready to tailor. Maintain a high level of market intelligence, including insight into wider industry best practice, competitor activity, and client/regulatory information (Ofwat/Ofgem, AMP/RIIO). Proactively build knowledge of the organisation's offerings and differentiators to effec-tively articulate solutions and communicate value to customers and stakeholders. Identify opportunities to improve the end-to-end bid process. Manage client procurement portals to ensure all requirements, deadlines, and documents are understood and applied to the bid process. Raise clarification questions with the Head of Bids or Bid Lead to ensure Tender Queries are captured and submitted within client deadlines. Support post-submission activity, including refining content for presentations, clarifications, and structured win/loss reviews to strengthen future writing.