Lead Bid Writer - Hook, United Kingdom - Serco Plc

Serco Plc

Verified Company

Hook, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Lead Bid Writer

Competitive + Bonus + Benefits

Permanent

The contracts we deliver provide vital services to citizens in the UK & Europe that build on our public service ethos and DNA.

With ambition aplenty and with further investment planned in our teams and their resources across 2023, you can help us develop, win, and transform public services.

By joining us as Lead Bid Writer you'll provide professional and high-quality bid writing support for bids of varying scale and complexity within our Defence Bid Management team.

Reporting to the Bid Director, you'll lead, manage and mentor team of bid writers.

Working with our solutions team, you'll create quality responses that meet the clients brief whilst being engaging and visually arresting.

Working with SME's across the business & conducting research, you'll ensure that win themes, USPs, sales messages, case studies and 'hot button' material are elegantly incorporated into our written responses, storyboards, and other bidding collateral.

As well as the satisfaction of working on (and of course winning) contracts that directly impact public service users, you'll also benefit from an environment that firmly sets the stage for your own career development and progression, whether you want to specialise, progress upwards, or broaden your career.

What you need to do the role
You'll be someone who is proactive, adaptable, collaborative, and is able to multitask and prioritise under pressure of deadlines.

Naturally you'll be someone who is an excellent and influential communicator, both on paper and in person, and you'll be experienced in leading, coaching and mentoring a small team in a fast paced, diverse environment.

Why Serco
- _ Meaningful and vital work _

We have ambitious plans for growth across all of our core sectors, and our successful Sales Team play a key role in delivering upon those targets. With a strong growth agenda and further investment planned, now is a great time to join our winning team and help us take it even further.

- _ A world of opportunities_

Every member of our Sales Team has a personal development plan irrespective of role, so whether you want develop deepsector expertise, experience a variety of sectors, move into a more operational role, or progress to Manager or Director level we'll take you in the direction you want to go.

- _ Great people _

We know how fast paced and challenging it is to work in Sales but what sets us apart from other organisations is our focus on our four values of Care, Pride, Trust and Innovation. So whilst there will always be looming deadlines, it does mean we work in a way that respects you and your work/life balance.

What we offer:

A competitive salary, pension (matched up to 6%), company car, bonus (up to 10%), healthcare, life insurance; 25 days leave & bank holidays.
A fantastic culture and supportive team; volunteer leave; continuous training & development opportunities
A range of benefits to support the health and wellbeing of you and your family such as Employee Assistance Programme, Thrive App, Simply Health Plans, Cycle to Work Scheme Annual Leave Purchase Scheme and more
Access to a huge range of discounts and exclusive deals
The chance to make a positive difference in a company passionate about diversity and inclusion

About Serco

At Serco, not only is the nature of the work we do important, everyone has an important role to play, from caring for vulnerable people to managing complex public services.

We are a team of 50,000 people responsible for delivering essential public services around the world in areas including defence, transport, justice, immigration, healthcare and citizen services.

We are innovators, committed to redesigning and improving public services for the benefit of everyone.

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At Serco we support fair access to employment for those with unspent criminal convictions through the 'Ban the Box' pledge (some may be exempt due to the nature of the role and the security clearance required).

Please contact our recruitment team directly on to discuss.