Bid Writer

Spectrum.Life

October 13, 2022

Job Description

Spectrum.Life supports 1,800+ companies in their health and wellness strategies. We support Employers, Universities, and Insurers in looking after the mental health and wellbeing needs of over 2,100,000 users.

We are a healthcare company first. We focus on clinical efficacy and outcomes as our prime responsibility. We do this by providing or enabling best-in-class services, delivered by fully accredited, experienced professionals through our in-house built technology.

Our mission is to build a team to enhance and deliver our digital and onsite wellness to companies and employees around the world.

ROLE BRIEF

We are recruiting for a Bid Writer to join our Bid team, based in the UK or Ireland. The newly created Bid writer role will manage the end-to-end tender process (mostly for the Public Sector) from scanning for opportunities, development, and creation to submission of compelling bids, providing regular reports, building and maintaining integrity across a bid library reflecting current service delivery solutions. Experience in written EAP or Occupational Health tenders would be beneficial.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

  • Provide an active scanning and response service to ensure that emerging Public Sector opportunities are highlighted and assessed for prompt approval
  • Produce tender summaries, attend briefings on behalf of the organisation and support on post-tender presentations
  • Continuously monitor live tender opportunities providing information to support decision making by senior managers
  • Populate Pre-qualification Questionnaires (PQQs) with minimum input from other colleagues
  • Organise and lead bid kick-off and development meetings, briefing the team on the opportunity and bid strategy / progress
  • Work with the Senior Management team, clinical, sales / account managers and all functional departments to co-ordinate timely inputs into bespoke tender submissions 
  • Own preparation, drafting response information and completion of all BAU tenders with support from sales team, including obtaining final draft sign off prior to submission
  • Manage inputs from a variety of stakeholders (both internal and sometimes external) to ensure first class technical and commercial bid submissions
  • Store submitted bids and tenders ensuring effective version control and accessibility
  • Own, improve and continuously update the bid library to support the efficient submission of bids and tenders
  • Support the exec with development of other major bids and tenders (i.e., Central Government, Local Authority, Education and Blue-light opportunities).

DESIRABLE:

  • Minimum of 2+ yrs experience of tender development / writing
  • Experience in Health, Wellbeing, Occupational Health, EAP or similar sector
  • Demonstrates good commercial thinking to understand needs and business issues
  • Strong communication and influencing skills
  • Public Sector bidding experience welcome 
  • Strong IT skills, particularly WMS Word, Excel, PowerPoint
  • Ability to work under pressure to tight deadlines
  • Manages own time
  • Excellent writing skills

WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS OF WORKING AT SPECTRUM.LIFE