Senior Bid Writer

We’re looking for a Senior Bid Writer to join our Eastern and Midlands Construction business.

Location: Waterbeach, Cambridgeshire or Rushden, Northamptonshire - remote working available

Contract: Permanent, full time – flexible and part-time hours available if desired, just let us know.

Responsibilities

As a Senior Bid Writer, you will deliver work winning / bidding excellence to secure a wide range of projects and frameworks across our key public and private sectors, including (but not limited to) Education, Custodial, Healthcare, Defence, and Commercial.

Your day to day will include:

• Understanding tender documents and Client requirements
• Developing win themes and answer plans
• Engaging expert contributors, articulating Client-focussed solutions
• We are also keen to hear from Senior Bid Writers looking to step up into the role of Bid Director in the future.

Who are we looking for?

• A proven track record of writing high quality bids
• A wide range of bid winning and writing skills
• Evidence of developing high quality responses that reflect Client-specific needs

We’re all about finding potential here at Kier, and transferable skills are always welcome! So even if you don’t tick every box, please apply and we can have a chat. We want to hear from candidates from all backgrounds and experiences, and we especially encourage those from underrepresented communities to get in touch with us.

If you require any reasonable adjustments during any part of the application process, please get in touch at InclusiveRecruitment@kier.co.uk to discuss and arrange these.

Benefits at Kier

We’re proud to be able to offer our fantastic employees a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. Some of our favourites include:

• New and enhanced family friendly policies, including eight weeks paternity leave, 26 weeks maternity leave, pregnancy loss leave, surrogacy leave, menopause guidance and more
• 26 Days annual leave
• Green car scheme
• Matched pension up to 7.5%

And so much more! You can read the full details of all of our benefits on our website: www.kier.co.uk/careers/rewards-benefits

Who is Kier?

We’re made up of six business units, Group Functions, Construction, Highways, Infrastructure, Utilities and Property, and as a group, our purpose is to sustainably deliver construction and infrastructure services which are vital to the UK. Take a look at our sustainability objectives: https://www.kier.co.uk/sustainability/

At the core of all our projects is technical excellence, utilising the latest building methods and innovations to ensure we offer the best value to our clients as sustainably as possible.

Our projects are those that support the local communities we work in, helping them thrive and progress. We are collaborative, trusted and focussed in all that we do, and our people are essential in helping us achieve our goals.

Diversity and inclusion

Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We’re proud of the steps we’ve taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier’s diversity and inclusion (D&I) initiatives, and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies and initiatives.

You can see more about our D&I action plan here: https://www.kier.co.uk/media/6668/di-roadmap-2021.pdf