Bid Writer

The Vacancy

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Bid Writer to join our growing Business Development team. You'll play a key role in securing new business for the firm by delivering high-quality, compelling and fully compliant tender and proposal submissions across both public and private sector opportunities. Your role will be critical to improving our bid quality, consistency and win rates, whilst supporting the firm’s strategic growth.

Working closely with our Tender Manager, you'll have the opportunity to manage the full bid lifecycle; from interpreting tender requirements and shaping win themes, through to drafting, coordination and submission. You'll use your creative flair to translate complex legal and technical information into clear, persuasive and client-focused responses that align precisely with evaluation criteria and our client priorities.

What will I be doing

• Managing the full bid lifecycle from opportunity identification through to submission, ensuring that all deadlines and governance requirements are met.
• Interpreting tender documentation to extract key requirements, evaluation criteria and submission instructions.
• Developing clear win themes and response structures aligned to client priorities and bid strategy.
• Drafting high-quality, tailored responses across ITTs, PQQs, RFQs, frameworks and panel submissions.
• Ensuring all submissions are fully compliant with tender requirements, including structure, formatting and protocols.
• Translating complex legal and technical information into clear, engaging, client-focused content.
• Collaborating with Partners, legal specialists, our Business Development Managers and business services to coordinate inputs and shape compelling responses.
• Conducting thorough quality assurance, using feedback and insights to drive continuous improvement in bid content and processes.

You'll have

• Demonstrable experience in bid writing, copy writing, proposals or tenders, ideally within a legal or professional services environment.
• Exceptional written communication skills, with the ability to translate complex technical content into clear, persuasive narrative.
• Proven ability to manage multiple bids and deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong organisational and project management skills.
• High attention to detail with a focus on accuracy, quality and compliance.
• Confidence working with senior stakeholders, with the ability to challenge and refine content constructively.
• An APMP certification (or be willing be work towards a certification).

About us

We're proud to be an independent, full-service law firm providing exceptional legal expertise to businesses, the built environment, healthcare, the public and third sectors, and private individuals. With several office locations around the UK, we're one of the UK's Top 100 law firms. When you join us, you’ll be part of a team of over 500 passionate and talented individuals who take pride in offering an exciting and supportive environment allowing you to thrive.

We're passionate about promoting wellbeing and equality, diversity and inclusion, with dedicated committees to support ongoing efforts. We recognise that a healthy and thriving Firm filled with individuality and differences strengthen our teams, our clients and our communities.

What we can offer you

We’re committed to being a firm focused on support, development, wellbeing and inclusion and we’re always striving to improve. Our commitment to this has been recognised by our achievement of our Gold Investors in People award and by our Hive HR Employee Voice certification.

We reward our people with a whole range of benefits, some core and some flexible, designed to shape a reward package that’s right for you – now and in the future. Our core benefits include:

• An enhanced pension scheme with employer matched contributions of up to 6%.
• 25 days annual leave + bank holidays (increasing to 28 days with length of service). There is also the option to purchase up to 5 additional days.
• Life assurance cover of 4 times basic salary, with the option to purchase additional cover.
• A range of health & wellbeing benefits.
• Hybrid working with a minimum requirement of 2 days per week working from one of our office locations.
• We also have a flexible benefits programme where you can purchase a wide range of additional benefits.

If you would like to request further information or to discuss the role, please contact [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] quoting vacancy reference NTX1196948.

If you require any adjustments to be made to our recruitment process, please request a call back via the above email address.

Agencies - please note that we are not currently instructing agents to support with this role. Please do not send speculative CVs.

The Company

[Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] is a full-service, UK Top 100 law firm providing exceptional legal expertise to businesses, public and third sectors, and individuals.

From our offices in Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle and Teesside, we combine regional strength with national influence to deliver high-quality, tailored solutions that drive success for our clients.

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