Description of role:
Senior Bid Writer
Certain Advantage are hiring for a Senior Bid Writer based in Preston.
This is a permanent role and requires full-time onsite attendance.
You will lead the coordination and preparation of high-quality PQQ and tender submissions, combining strong bid writing capability with light bid management responsibilities.
Your Responsibilities
The individual:
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Working with Certain Advantage
We go the extra mile to find the best people for the job. If you’re hunting for a role where you can make an impact and grow your career, we’ll work with you to find it.
We work with businesses across the UK to find the best people in Finance, Marketing, IT and Engineering. If this job isn’t for you, head to certainadvantage.co.uk and register for job alerts and career guidance tips.
Certain Advantage are hiring for a Senior Bid Writer based in Preston.
This is a permanent role and requires full-time onsite attendance.
You will lead the coordination and preparation of high-quality PQQ and tender submissions, combining strong bid writing capability with light bid management responsibilities.
Your Responsibilities
- Producing a bid programme and submission plan
- Organising bid kick-off meetings
- Allocating responsibilities for bid inputs
- Coordinating contributions from estimators, planners and operational staff
- Tracking progress against deadlines
- Managing tender clarifications
- Ensuring compliance with client requirements
- Assembling and submitting final tender documentation
- Write clear, persuasive responses to PQQs, tenders and framework submissions
- Translate technical information into structured, client-focused responses
- Develop methodology responses, project approaches and value proposals
- Review and improve contributions from technical team members
- Edit and proofread submissions to ensure clarity and consistency
- Ensure responses align with identified win themes
The individual:
- Strong bid writing experience
- Experience coordinating tender submissions
- Construction or civil engineering sector experience desirable
- Ability to analyse tender questions and scoring criteria
- Skilled at extracting technical knowledge from subject experts
- Excellent written communication skills
- Strong editing and proofreading ability
- Ability to prioritise work across multiple concurrent tenders
- Strong organisational and time management skills
- Proficient in Microsoft Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel)
- Experience with document design tools (InDesign or similar)
Does this sound like your next career move? Apply today.
Working with Certain Advantage
We go the extra mile to find the best people for the job. If you’re hunting for a role where you can make an impact and grow your career, we’ll work with you to find it.
We work with businesses across the UK to find the best people in Finance, Marketing, IT and Engineering. If this job isn’t for you, head to certainadvantage.co.uk and register for job alerts and career guidance tips.
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