Bid Manager - C

About the job you're considering

The Senior Bid Writer will work in the Competitive Bid Management function within our Client Account Management team, supporting the ambition for growth in the UK Public Sector. Reporting to the Competitive Bid Management Lead, the Senior Bid Writer role is focused specifically on supporting and winning competitive bids within UK Public Sector. 

Hybrid working: The places that you work from day to day will vary according to your role, your needs, and those of the business; it will be a blend of Company offices, client sites, and your home; noting that you will be unable to work at home 100% of the time. If you are successfully offered this position, you will go through a series of pre-employment checks, including: identity, nationality (single or dual) or immigration status, employment history going back 3 continuous years, and unspent criminal record check (known as Disclosure and Barring Service)

Your role

Play an integral role in producing bid responses by:

• Understanding key Buyer requirements and identifying hot buttons and pain points to be addressed
• Building relationships and working closely with Subject Matter Experts to convert raw material into highly compelling bid responses and sales proposals
• Reviewing, editing and re-engineering content authored by others to build compelling responses with the aim of scoring maximum points
• Applying high-quality standards of grammar, layout and readability, adhering to any prescribed compliance instructions set by the Buyer
• Developing win-themes and identifying where these should be applied across responses

Your skills and experience

Essential skills:
Consistent and demonstrable experience of large and/or complex deals in which the quality of written submissions is a key factor in winning the deal.

Demonstrable experience in winning public sector bids including common government frameworks

Broad experience of technical writing, for example on topics such as Infrastructure, Applications and Digital Transformation, blending traditional offerings experience with innovative technologies and approaches

Strong copywriting skills applied to technical subject matter and clearly articulating win themes and business value

Able to develop junior and inexperienced team members on best practice writing skills

Desirable skills:
APMP certification would be an advantage but not essential

What does ‘Get The Future You Want ‘ mean for you?

•    You’d be joining an accredited Great Place to work for Wellbeing in 2023. Employee wellbeing is vitally important to us as an organisation.  We see a healthy and happy workforce a critical component for us to achieve our organisational ambitions. To help support wellbeing we have trained ‘Mental Health Champions’ across each of our business areas, and we have invested in wellbeing apps such as Thrive and Peppy. 

•    You will reimagine what’s possible: creating value for the world’s leading organisations through technology to build a sustainable, more inclusive future. You will work with a range of clients all with a unique set of business, technological and societal ambitions, which will make a real impact across the UK.

•    You will be empowered to explore, innovate, and progress. You will benefit from Capgemini’s ‘learning for life’ mindset, meaning you will have countless training and development opportunities from thinktanks to hackathons, and access to 250,000 courses with numerous external certifications from AWS, Microsoft, Harvard ManageMentor, Cybersecurity qualifications and much more.

•    You’ll be bringing your unique skills and perspectives to the team, inspiring and taking inspiration from your teammates as you unlock value in everything you do. You’ll be joining a professional community of experts, who have got your back and will support you, every step of the way. 

Why you should consider Capgemini

Growing clients’ businesses while building a more sustainable, more inclusive future is a tough ask.  But when you join Capgemini, you join a thriving company and become part of a diverse collective of free-thinkers, entrepreneurs and industry experts.  

A powerful source of energy that drives us all to find new ways technology can help us reimagine what’s possible.  It’s why, together, we seek out opportunities that will transform the world’s leading businesses. And it’s how you’ll gain the experiences and connections you need to shape your future.   By learning from each other every day, sharing knowledge and always pushing yourself to do better, you’ll build the skills you want. And you’ll use them to help our clients leverage technology to grow their business and give innovation that human touch the world needs. So, it might not always be easy, but making the world a better place rarely is.  

About Capgemini

Capgemini is a global business and technology transformation partner, helping organisations to accelerate their dual transition to a digital and sustainable world, while creating tangible impact for enterprises and society. It is a responsible and diverse group of 340,000 team members in more than 50 countries. With its strong over 55-year heritage, Capgemini is trusted by its clients to unlock the value of technology to address the entire breadth of their business needs.It delivers end-to-end services and solutions leveraging strengths from strategy and design to engineering, all fuelled by its market leading capabilities in AI, generative AI, cloud and data, combined with its deep industry expertise and partner ecosystem. The Group reported 2024 global revenues of €22.1 billion.