Bid Writer

A member of the Bids and Tendering department, reporting to the Head of Tendering, the Bid Writer will work closely with all disciplines within the team and the wider business, to support the delivery of high quality, winning bids.

The Tendering function is a centralised bidding team that is responsible for the delivery of bids for Siemens Intelligent Systems UK business, ensuring appropriate levels of governance and accuracy is applied to a winning strategy. Our company portfolio is extensive and diverse and covers Traffic Management Systems, Electric Vehicle Charging, Traffic Enforcement and Connected Mobility delivering a wide range of benefits to private and public companies in the UK and overseas.

What are my responsibilities?

• Communicating our business capability and plans in compelling bid documentation to make our customer choose us to be their partner and recognise our quality in the scoring we receive
• Contributing to and implementing winning bid strategies by ensuring all team members are aware of win strategies and these are effectively communicated in our written responses
• Preparation, review, editing and coordination of compelling tender documentation ensuring high levels of consistency and quality, that captures our offer, provides an accurate baseline for a future project, incorporates lessons learned, and mitigates company risks
• Work with Subject Matter Experts - SME's to challenge, refine and improve compliant winning bid responses that clearly articulate the key benefits and value proposition
• Relentless focus on the development of our bid writing process and tools to maximise bidding efficiency. Using lessons learned to drive a continuous improvement culture and identifying digital tools to improve bid efficiency
• Forecasting requirements for writing resources and managing those resources across our bid portfolio to ensure we deliver consistently high scoring responses
• Influencing and negotiating with people at all levels, including providing progress reports to management
• Responsible for identifying and training Subject Matter Experts who can produce consistently high scoring responses
• Collaborating across Siemens to learn from best practise
• Production of presentations (internal and external to the client) up to board level
• Supporting and or facilitating the Storyboarding process
• Support to our Regional teams will require some UK travel from time to time depending on tender requirements
• Contribute content to a bid library containing boilerplate responses

• Significant bid writing experience in an engineering project-based business
• Possess a good understanding of the way in which projects are managed and delivered in order to influence, monitor and challenge every aspect of the bid i.e. project management, finance, engineering, planning, delivery and commercial inputs
• Possesses sufficient experience and stature to interface effectively with project managers and snr business managers, in order to provide appropriate support to tender teams
• A pro-active high achiever with high energy levels, who is used to prioritising workload and working under pressure and to tight/challenging deadlines
• Microsoft Office 365 applications (ideally Professional Certification)
• Exceptionally high standard of written and spoken communication skills