Bid Writer

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

• Full-time permanent contract
• Salary: Dependent on experience.
• Extensive list of employee perks and benefits https://app.box.com/s/pmk6x6kl6tzpz4czaf0o7v0f94z59msl