Bid Writer
Hybrid (Home based with occasional UK travel for meetings/visits)
Full Time, Permanent
Salary - £35k-£42k dependant on experience
Do you have a passion for clear, compelling writing? Want to see your words positively impact communities?
Join Serco's Environmental Services Business Unit as a Bid Writer and articulate detailed information to secure impactful government contracts. Drawing on your strengths in writing and collaborating with colleagues, you'll be vital in delivering our strategic ambitions. Compiling knowledge and workstreams in a coherent and customer-centric manner for bids in the UK, you'll play a valuable role in effectively communicating our winning propositions and solutions. You will have access to progressive technologies such as Autogen AI to support you in the production of written responses, storyboards, and other bidding collateral!
As well as the satisfaction of working on (and of course winning!) contracts that directly impact public service users, you'll also benefit from an environment that firmly sets the stage for your own career development and progression. Whether you want to specialise, progress upwards into Bid Management or Business Development, or broaden your career into a Sales, Operations, Project Management, Commercial or Solutions role - there will be plenty of opportunities to keep growing! We offer a wide portfolio of career paths, with the right training and development in place so you can keep hitting your goals.
As part of our team, you'll:
What you'll need to do the role:
Why Serco?
A place you can make an impact: Our purpose is to impact a better future - and here you'll be part of that too. You'll be instrumental in the delivery of high-scoring bids, for contracts with an emphasis on social value, that positively impact the communities we live in.
A place you can count on: As a fast-growing and successful global company, with long-term government backed contracts, we offer great career opportunities with room for you to grow, and the opportunity to work on a variety of interesting future bids across the UK and Europe.
A place for you: When you join Serco, you join a team of 50,000 people. Here you'll discover a highly supportive culture with trusted leadership to help you achieve your work goals and manage a flexible approach to work-life.
What we offer:
About Serco
At Serco, not only is the nature of the work we do important, everyone has an important role to play, from caring for vulnerable people to managing complex public services. We are a team of 50,000 people responsible for delivering essential public services around the world in areas including defence, transport, justice, immigration, healthcare and citizen services. We are innovators, committed to redesigning and improving public services for the benefit of everyone.
By joining Serco you will have unlimited access to our Global Employee Networks - SercoInspire (Gender), SercoEmbrace (Multicultural), SercoUnlimited (Disability) and In@Serco (LGBT & Networks). Serco Employee Networks, led by colleagues who are passionate about diversity, inclusion and belonging.
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Occasionally we receive a large volume of applications for our roles and when that happens we sometimes bring the closing date forward, so please apply promptly to avoid disappointment.
At Serco, we see people first and foremost for their performance and potential. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive organisation that supports the needs of all. As such we will make reasonable adjustments at interview through to employment for our candidates and strongly encourage applications from a diverse candidate pool. We are open to discussions around flexibility and flexible working. We operate a hybrid work structure in many of our business areas. We are proudly Disability Confident Leader employers and holder of the Gold Inclusive Employer Standard. Disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the job will be given the opportunity to demonstrate their abilities at an interview. For help with your application please contact 0345 010 4000.
At Serco we support fair access to employment for those with unspent criminal convictions through the 'Ban the Box' pledge (some may be exempt due to the nature of the role and the security clearance required). Please contact our recruitment team directly on 0345 010 4000 to discuss.