Senior Bid Coordinator

Overview:

Location: Bristol

Company Description

Ridge and Partners is a growing built environment consultancy focused on helping clients create better, more sustainable places for people to live, learn, work and play. Our aim is always to deliver outstanding service to clients and provide our people with the support, opportunities, and environments they need to flourish.

Job Description

An opportunity for a Senior Bid Coordinator to join our office in Bristol. We are looking for a curious and confident self-starter with the potential to become a key player in our busy work-winning team.

Role and Responsibilities:

• Responsibility for all stages of the bid cycle
• Working with relevant members of the team to create and craft compelling bid responses that showcase the best that Ridge has to offer
• Researching and gathering inputs from multiple stakeholders, where necessary
• Managing the bid timetable to ensure bid team members respond in line with the bid plan, all deadlines are met, and all bids are compliant and commercially sound
• Reviewing bid documents and pulling together previous relevant bids and best-practice answers
• Proofing and editing colleagues’ bid response documents, ensuring each document contains the required information for a successful bid, with sufficient focus on the quality and innovation we bring to projects
• Working with bid team members to ensure a consistent quality of bids
• Continuously improving and enhancing the standards and effectiveness of our written responses in conjunction with the Bids and Marketing teams
• Preparation of client presentations and capability statements

Experience and Skills Required:

• Significant experience of delivering quality bid submissions in a fast-paced B2B professional services environment
• Demonstrable experience of producing and coordinating bid responses and draft documents
• Experience preparing submissions across the public and private sectors
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Phenomenal attention to detail
• Excellent time management, strong organisational skills and ability to prioritise
• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office – InDesign knowledge an advantage
• Experience working with bid portals

• APMP Certification an advantage

What's in it for you?

Your reward is focused on your total wellbeing, with a package to support all aspects of life. In addition to your salary, you can expect:

• A healthy holiday balance of 25 days, plus bank holidays & the ability to buy / sell to suit you
• 3 days a year to give your time to others, volunteering for great causes
• Company car allowance
• An inclusive wellbeing offer:
• Financial – Life Assurance, Pension Scheme (3% Employee, 6% Employer), Income Protection, Salary Sacrifice Car Scheme, flexible choice of Critical Illness Insurance
• Physical – Free Private Medical Insurance, Doctor at Hand Private GP, Best Doctors, flexible choice of Dental Plan, Cycle to Work Scheme, GymFlex & Healthcare Cash Plan
• Mental – Mental Health First Aiders, Help@Hand by Unum
• A flexible approach to hybrid working, to suit both you & your team
• Tailored career development – focused on professional, personal and/or educational

If you’d like to discuss accessibility, accommodations or adjustments during your application & selection process, please contact us at workwithus@ridge.co.uk and we will work with you to ensure you feel included and supported.

A polite note to Recruitment Agencies

We enjoy great relationships with our agency partners within our framework, and fully believe in the value of a blended approach to finding the best talent. However, we are recruiting for this role directly and aren’t seeking support from agency partners at this time – any unsolicited CV introductions won’t be honoured, and we won’t grant candidate ownerships on any introduction that you make for roles that haven’t been briefed & released to you by our Talent Acquisition team.

We are committed to nurturing strong partnerships within our agency framework, but there are occasions where we looking to enlist the help of others. If you would be interested in working with us in the future, please send a message to workwithus@ridge.co.uk, and we’ll reach out to you should there be an opportunity.