Bid Specialist in UK

Role: Commercial Bid Writer

Reports to: Bid Manager

Location: Remote/Hybrid Working

Salary: £40'000 - £60'000

Job purpose:

As part of the bid writing team be accountable for writing multi million pound winning bids for agreed contracts, tenders and frameworks in line with the agreed operating model, enabling United Response to retain and grow income in a sustainable way.

Key responsibilities

Bid writing

• Writing high quality and innovative responses in tenders and framework that are representative of United Response work in collaboration with Operation colleagues and Relationship Managers that will lead to winning multi million pound partnerships
• Working closely with the Principle Commercial Bid Writer, Relationship Managers, operational subject matter experts to ensure that all tenders, are written to an excellent standard and meet necessary criteria within internal and procurement timeframes.
• Editing and copywriting content to provide consistent and engaging written submissions.
• To articulate and illustrate information provided to you as well as work up concepts into creative and innovative ideas, in line with The United Response strategy and brand. This will include research, example gathering, development of new initiatives and engaging internal and external stakeholders, to include in model development and submissions which will lead to significant increases in income.
• Working with the Principle Commercial Bid Writer to develop a library of sector leading stock responses ensuring tools, examples and information are kept up to date and properly represents the work we do
• Write excellent bids, that bring our offer to life and win UR the contracts

Budgets and Critical Analysis

• Develop comprehensive blue prints for each of our contracts, which will include:
• Rigorous and comprehensive cost benefit analysis for all of our services and bids.
• Experience of developing significant comprehensive budgets for bids to ensure that the ROI is met ensuring sustainable contracts.
• A full risk assessment for the contract to inform decision making for a bid no bid scenario.

Best Practice and Learning

• Keep abreast of latest innovations and research to include in responses.
• Work with colleagues in Operational, Quality and Practice teams to ensure the best practice is shared and knowledge and management information is both used in tenders and available to the organisation.
• Research and data collection for bids, contributing as actively to bespoke model design and innovation development.
• Evaluate and improve future submissions utilising bid feedback and good practice from successful bids, taking a lead and ownership of the Response Library.

Opportunities

• Develop strong and effective communication and relationships across the organisation to understand opportunities and requirements that will take key stakeholders on the bid development journey.

Information & Governance

• Ensure that all processes, procedures and systems to support income generation are followed in accordance with best practice and Information Governance Policies.
• Ensure that United Response and partner’s intellectual property and commercially sensitive information is protected and used appropriately.
• Ensure confidentiality of our people and the people we support is maintained at all times.
• Service User Engagement
• Always act as a champion of United Response and local partnerships internally and externally, modelling appropriate behaviours.
• Engage in and instigate true co-production, devolved decision making and strengthening the voices of the people we support.
• Develop and/or build strong and positive relationships with key stakeholders and where required commissioners.

Person specification:

Essential Criteria

Part One – Experience

We will be looking for evidence of your:

• Experience of writing multi million pound sector leading bids and frameworks in the social care arena.
• Credibility in building relationships with operational colleagues and other key stakeholders.
• Experience of the development of comprehensive blue prints for contracts.
• Experience of developing rigorous and comprehensive cost benefit analysis for multi million-pound contracts and tenders.
• Experience of developing significant comprehensive budgets for bids to ensure that the ROI is met ensuring sustainable contracts.
• Supporting colleagues to think differently, developing bids that are easy to read and impactful.
• Understanding of how to deliver social purpose in a business-like manner, good business and financial planning skills and proven track record in delivering against financial targets and managing business risk.
• Commitment to co-production with people we support and their families/advocates.

Part Two - Key Competencies

We will be looking for evidence that you:

• Exceptional writing and communication skills.
• Analytical with an eye for detail.
• Have strong & practical understanding of how to write powerful bids in personalised public services.
• Can critically appraise ideas, proposals, and operating models to ensure that the bids we submit are deliverable and achieve agreed operating margins.
• Ability to work at pace and can juggle competing demands, making reasoned decisions about priorities.
• Can apply project management techniques appropriately to the scale of the task in hand.
• Can harness creative thinking and innovative approaches both of your own and enable others to apply these to deliver practical outcomes.
• Can strike a balance between tried & tested approaches while being willing to take calculated risks in developing new ways of doing things.
• Can show resilience when needed for yourself and assist others to develop this.
• Can hold colleagues to account in an appropriate way to provide high quality information needed for the bids

Part Three - Personal Style and Behaviour

We will be looking for evidence that you:

• Can describe what your commitment to the aims, values and goals of United Response looks like in practice.
• Have integrity and display courage in tricky situations.
• Work collaboratively with the Business Development team to help deliver exceptional results.
• Are articulate, able to transform complex and often technical subjects into clear messages, and with strong presentation skills, able to create concise yet robust bids.

Desirable criteria

• Have worked in successful multi-million pound bid writing team
• Certificate in Bid Management or similar

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