Bid Writer Job Description
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Licensing or Certifications for Bid Writer
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Education for Bid Writer
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Employers hiring for the bid writer job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Collage Degree in English, Education, Professional Writing, Communications, Business, Technical, Journalism, Marketing, Writing, Engineering
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Bid Writer Job Description
- Assist the allotted Bid Manager(s) in the management of bids, working in partnership with the appointed business development manager to deliver agreed outputs within timescales set by the customer
- Contribute to the creation and delivery of our brand and brand values
- Leading facilitation of solution articulation processes for proposals by facilitating inputs across groups contribute to the same
- Applying prior presales experience to provide inputs to ( drive execution of) initiatives and projects to increase visibility of the function, sharpen service offerings, design integrated solutions, deepen engagements with the client facing teams sales
- Analyzes requirements and specifications, obtaining compliance information and sign-off as appropriate from Legal, Pricing, Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) and Management
- Executes against bid response plans, including writing, editing and graphic design consistent with brand guidelines and style guides
- Collaborates with other team members to effect continuing process improvement
- Drafting and writing PQQ and/or bid submission responses using persuasive and positive language
- To be at the forefront of industry developments and client drivers to align bid responses with client/project strategic goals
- Develop a knowledge bank of bid material, evidence and responses to facilitate strategic development of quality responses
- Strong corporate strategic and technical writing experience
- A tertiary qualification in Communications, Marketing, PR, or similar related discipline
- Desktop publishing (intermediate) experience, underpinned with Microsoft Office is essential
- Ability to develop a close working relationship with key company stakeholders
- High level of personal organisation and time management, ability to work flexibly
- A degree or qualification in a relevant field
Bid Writer Job Description
- Become a trusted advisor and voice of our prospects and customers throughout the organization and particularly with sales and operations
- Become the company ambassador to develop, update (based on company need, industry standards, ), educate, and evangelize [one voice, one message, and one standard] the company standards, such as marketing standards, company positioning, and standard language authorized for use with prospects, customers, or other external parties to other departments across the organization
- Must be highly skilled in tender preparation, market and product research, and strong corporate writing skills
- Reporting of progress
- As part of the Business Development team, you will be writing clear and concise prequalification and tender submissions
- Write client and bid focused market leading responses
- Review / proof read the final production materials to ensure that message quality, format and content meet agreed objectives
- Produce supporting case studies and method statements as needed
- Bid writing and production of high quality visuals, presentations and documents
- Proposition shaping and development
- Comfortable managing frequent change at many levels
- Experience in bid-related role - desirable
- Engineering/construction experience - highly desirable
- Experience providing general project support - highly desirable
- Passionate about building on your communication and design skills
- Relevant Tertiary Qualifications in communications, marketing or other discipline - highly desirable
Bid Writer Job Description
- To create and maintain content for the information library
- Work with subject matter experts from across the globe to source and create proposal content and to keep it up to date
- Work with end users to ensure any new customer topics are covered and adapt library accordingly
- Ensure proposal content is industry best-in-class
- Proactively propose new and different ways of working to our business challenges, focussing on ways to improve the quality of bids whilst reducing costs
- Act to promote a spirit of constant innovation across the Commercial team
- Creating highly customized bid response documents and proposals for customers of all sizes around the world (including RFIs, RFPs, Executive Summaries)
- Providing proactive support and leadership in the creation of ad hoc sales materials and supporting documents
- Owning and managing our database of pre-written RoomIt by CWT strategic, technical and operational bid content
- Responsible for general corporate related writing proposal development and writing
- Solid experience in tender proposal planning, writing, review and delivery
- A track record of winning proposals within highly competitive markets
- Experience with Adobe design suite - highly desirable
- Preparing and managing the production of bids
- Driving, leading and assisting in the production of best in class bid quality answers that meet the quality and scoring criteria
- Identifying and driving delivery of technical and administrative support required where necessary
Bid Writer Job Description
- Develop proposal templates and responses for complex Request for Proposals
- Assist in bid/response process for entire Request for Proposal process
- Develop presentation packages and briefing documentation
- Work with sales and delivery to understand customer business
- Participate or lead in process improvement initiatives to increase efficiencies for proposal and presentation development
- Mentor and train junior-level team members
- Analyze pertinent industry/market literature, drafts bid proposal copy, and verifies documentation
- Customize templates for proposal responses and internal library
- Partner with Subject Matter Expects (SMEs) to gather information and develop technical material for responses
- Recommend content for proposal response based on prior proposal experience
- Assisting with the development of bidding strategy and delivery processes based on continual improvement including capturing of benefits, added value and innovation
- Facilitate communication during and after bids are submitted both internally and externally
- Compliance with Group and Unit directives and governance within delegated authorities
- Compliance with group systems and the Quality, Environmental and Safety system
- Delivery of bids within budget
- To carry out relevant research and liaise with appropriate departments and specialists to obtain relevant information/details to allow written solutions to be developed and considered
Bid Writer Job Description
- Assist in maintaining a document control system, track and control changes to documents, and edit the draft documents of others while accurately incorporating all edits from reviewers
- Actively participate in bid strategy meetings to prepare proposal responses
- Write technical content with a Sales flavor for it to be presented to the client
- Needs to be resourceful on finding applicable content and to adjust content appropriately
- Proven experience in a Sales Administration/ Bid Coordinator / IT Change type role
- Be an effective communicator, both written and oral
- First class telephone manner
- Ability to maintain control of a wide range of tasks
- Initial review of incoming leads/RFI/RFP and evaluates the requirements against Carestream’s products before further bid/no bid qualification
- Owns the RFI/RFP process and is the main point of contact internally and externally for all questions regarding the status of the RFI/RFP and all clarification questions from the customer
- Will act as a champion of and acts credibly in accordance with the organisation’s values (PRIDE)
- Evidential experience of developing and writing winning proposals
- Potential clients, with a particular focus on sharing best practice with colleagues
- Excellent presentation (inc reviews, storyboarding) and communication skills
- Demonstrable experience of collaborative behaviours
- Ability to establish and maintain excellent working relationships with colleagues and