Bid Writer

As an experienced Bid Writer in the Healthcare sector of our Services business, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring the high quality of our proposals and bid documents to win new business. You will work closely with sales leads, bid teams and the pre-sales team to understand buyer requirements, our proposed solution/service, write high-scoring bid content, and guide the bid team to ensure end-to-end quality of the proposal/bid.  

Key responsibilities will include:   

• Understanding the buyer’s requirements. 

• Maintaining a detailed knowledge of our past project delivery and case studies. 

• Working closely with the sales lead and bid team to understand the proposed solution/service in response to the buyer’s requirements. 

• Collaborating with the sales lead to clearly define the win themes.  

• Designing storyboards and the structure of the proposal or bid document to maximise clarity.  

• Writing compelling and well-structured content that accurately describes the proposed solution/service and incorporates the agreed win themes. 

• Collaborating with designers to create compelling visuals to accompany or supersede written content.  

• Guiding the bid team authors on writing high-quality proposal/bid content.  

• Reviewing the final drafts to ensure clarity, inclusion of win themes, and consistency of language, terminology, tone of voice etc. 

• Working with review teams to identify lessons and be responsible for establishing and maintaining a culture of continuous improvement to bid quality. 

• Working with the pre-sales team to help them to maintain ‘gold standard’ content.  

Minimum (essential) requirements:  

• 5+ years-experience of writing high-scoring bid content relevant to UK healthcare and Public Sector procurements. 

• Understand technical detail relating to the delivery of digital services (including bespoke software delivery, agile methodologies etc).  

• Work effectively in a team. 

• Experience of interviewing subject matter experts (business and technical) to produce accurate written content.  

• Sound awareness of technology trends.  

• Communicate and present complex ideas clearly both verbally and in writing.  

• Plan and meet deadlines in a high-pressure environment maintaining a meticulous attention to detail. 

• Mentoring and coaching others to produce high-quality content. 

Desirable:  

• Experience of understanding how Generative AI tooling can improve the efficiency of bid production without compromising accuracy of message.  

• Visual design experience to develop compelling illustrations.  

About Us: Kainos is high-growth IT services company providing digital technology solutions and agile software development to enterprise customers. Across or 30-year+ history, we have delivered high profile national scale transformation projects across government, NHS and a myriad of private sector clients.