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About the Role

Based in the Transportation business unit, this role focuses on bid response production. The Bid Writer will be responsible for preparing winning bid responses by crafting appropriately pitched technical input into compliant submissions that address client needs and showcase win themes. The role involves reviewing bid feedback for continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

Working with subject matter experts to write and produce high-quality bid answers that meet quality and scoring criteria for complex bids, tenders, and proposals.
Analyzing tender documents, evaluation criteria, and client requirements.
Coordinating stakeholder contributions to ensure accurate, consistent, and timely responses.
Challenging and improving technical content to demonstrate client value.
Ensuring all bid responses comply with tender requirements.
Ensuring responses demonstrate measurable outcomes and benefits.
Directing generative AI tools to produce first drafts, then substantially reworking output to embed win themes and client-specific insight.
Verifying all facts, figures, case studies, and claims in AI-assisted content against source material.
Differentiating and eliminating generic AI language to ensure responses are client-specific.
Developing narratives for client-facing material, including bid submissions, with practice leaders and directors.
Leading storyboarding sessions to develop bid answers.
Conducting research and liaising with departments to obtain necessary information for written solutions.
Participating in bid reviews and responding to feedback.
Supporting the management of bid production.
Assisting with the development of bidding strategy and delivery processes based on continual improvement.
Facilitating communication internally and externally during and after bid submissions.
Ensuring feedback is understood and implemented.
Sharing best practices across the business to enhance submission quality.
Aligning bid responses with client project strategic goals by noting industry developments and evolving client drivers.
Contributing to a knowledge bank of bid material, evidence, and responses.
Acting as a champion for and embodying the organization’s values (PRIDE).

Requirements

Experience in the Transportation sector and/or other Engineering sectors.
Excellent report and bid/proposal writing skills with attention to detail.
A track record of writing high-scoring responses in competitive bids, evidenced by evaluator feedback or scores.
Evidential experience of developing winning proposals.
Ability to prioritize and work under pressure.
Ability to establish and maintain excellent working relationships with colleagues and potential clients.
Ability to demonstrate a flexible approach to work, potentially involving flexible working hours.
Excellent command of both written and spoken English.
Talent for writing bid responses that address a client’s brief.
Ability to listen and interview subject matter experts to create engaging content.
First-class personal and communication skills, with confidence to engage with senior directors.
Skilled in AI-assisted writing, including prompt design and editing AI output into distinctive, evidence-rich responses.
Ability to articulate a clear personal method for verification and for avoiding homogenized AI text.
Confident interviewing senior subject matter experts.
Resilient writing to tight deadlines across parallel bids.
Imaginative, persuasive, and persistent.
Meticulous attention to detail, accuracy, and ability to work to demanding deadlines.
Experience in the adoption of AI to enhance work.
Ability to work under pressure.

Skills

Bid response production
Technical writing
Facilitation
People skills
Analysis of tender documents
Stakeholder coordination
Content improvement
Compliance checking
Generative AI tool utilization
AI output verification
Narrative development
Storyboarding
Research
Bid reviews
Bid management support
Bidding strategy development
Communication
Best practice sharing
Industry trend analysis
Knowledge management
AI prompt design
AI output editing
Interviewing subject matter experts
Personal and communication skills
AI verification methods
AI text differentiation
Resilience
Persuasion
Attention to detail
Accuracy
Working to deadlines

Location

London
Croydon
Birmingham

Work Type

Hybrid working

Experience Level

Experience in the Transportation sector and or other Engineering sector
Experience in the adoption of AI to enhance

Education Level

Degree standard education

Benefits

Pension contributions matching between 4.5% and 7%
Life assurance equal up to 4 x basic salary, with an option to increase to 6 x salary
Income protection scheme providing financial benefit, absence, and return to work support
Flexible benefits including increased life assurance cover, critical illness insurance, payroll saving, and will writing
Annual bonus schemes
Private medical insurance for all UK colleagues
Health cash plan
Access to Peppy for menopause support
Comprehensive wellbeing program with family access
Ability to flex salary for a wide range of health benefits, extendable to family
Minimum of 33-35 days holiday each year, inclusive of public holidays
Ability to buy or sell leave
10 days additional paid leave for Armed Forces Reservists and Cadet Force Adult Volunteers
Holiday entitlement increased to a minimum of 35 days after 5 years’ service
Variety of employee saving schemes and discounts
Enhanced family leave policies, including 26 weeks paid maternity and adoption leave
Two weeks paid paternity/partner leave
Shared parental leave matching maternity leave (up to 24 weeks at full pay)
Up to five additional days leave for significant caring responsibilities (two paid)
Policies and support for military families
Primary annual professional institution subscription
Opportunities to enhance technical and soft skills through mentoring, formal training, and self-development
Membership in Advanced Employee Networks (LGBTQ+, gender, race and ethnicity, disability, parents/carers)
Support through the Armed Forces Network
Opportunities to make a difference within communities through social outcomes

About the Company

Mott MacDonald is a global engineering, management, and development consultancy with over 20,000 employees across more than 50 countries and 140+ offices.
We work across incredible global industries, delivering exciting work that is defining our future and making an important societal impact in the communities we serve.
Our people power our performance – we succeed when they do.
With countless opportunities to collaborate, learn, and grow, the possibilities for excellence are as varied as every individual.
Whether you want to grow as a subject matter expert or broaden your experience with roles across our international community, you’re surrounded by global specialists who want to combine their expertise and champion you to be your best.
As a proudly employee-owned business, we benefit our clients, our communities, and each other, investing in creating the right space for everyone to feel empowered, included, and valued.
Whatever your ambition, Mott MacDonald is where people come to be brilliant.
We help conceive, drive, and implement transport solutions for cities, regions, and asset owners/operators around the globe.
Our planning, engineering, environmental and management skills cover the whole project cycle.
We play a major role in developing and delivering the Global Transport Sector Strategy.

Equal Opportunity

We are actively recruiting a diverse workforce that is reflective of the communities we serve.
We recognise that differences in ability, skills and experience are a strength and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds.
We put equality, diversity, and inclusion at the heart of our business, seeking to promote fair employment procedures and practices to ensure equal opportunities for all.
We encourage individual expression in our workplace and are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels they can contribute.