Bid Writer

Package Description

You'll be warmly welcomed as Bid Writer at HCRG Care Group in our Business Development Team, where you'll receive access to an array of exclusive rewards and benefits including:

• £38,000 - £44,000 (depending on experience) per annum salary and access to our group pension
• Private medical insurance, with fast access to the most used specialists without a referral from your GP – including for musculoskeletal problems and for mental health support – at locations across the country.
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you.
• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates.
• Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
• An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £25,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year.
• The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with the majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission

Job Introduction

We are looking for an experienced Bid Writer to help drive our business development and growth!

As a Bid Writer you will work within our business development team helping to write and produce high quality and persuasive content for tenders, business proposals and other work-winning submissions. You will drive our business growth strategies and play a pivotal role in showcasing HCRG Care Group as the provider of choice to commissioning organisations including, local authorities, NHS ICBs, NHS England, NHS provider trusts, and others.

You will lead on multiple and concurrent bid responses ensuring timely submissions showcase HCRG Care Group’s innovative ways of working and USPs, running as golden threads throughout our content.

We are looking for someone who is experienced in using AI to help revolutionise our processes including experience with building and maintaining AI libraries for bid generations.

This is a full-time role working 37.5 hours a week, though flexibility is required to accommodate competing pressures when meeting deadlines and submissions.

This role offers primarily remote working but, there will be National / Regional travel involved to support the business when required.

Please note: This is a single vacancy being advertised across multiple UK locations to maximise reach, as the role is primarily remote. We kindly ask that applicants submit one application only, as duplicate applications will not be considered.

Main Responsibilities

As a Bid Writer you will:

• Work within the existing business development team, to produce high-quality, compelling, and persuasive written content for bids, business proposals, and other work-winning submissions.
• Ensure the various stages of the bidding and tender process and completed in a timely manner and to a high-quality.
• Lead multiple and concurrent individual bid responses.
• Conduct detailed and in-depth research on market trends, competitors, and clients to inform proposals and strategies.
• Use AI generated content to improve the speed and quality of bid production .
• Consult with Corporate and Operational SMEs to gather bid content.
• Consult with Corporate and Operational SMEs to contribute to drafting and bid refinement.
• Build and maintain an AI library for bid generation.
• Develop business intelligence for new opportunities.
• Ensure organisational USPs and win-themes are golden threads through each individual bid.
• Deliver business propositions that adhere fully to service specifications, HCRG best practice models and policies, and maximise scoring against set criteria.

The Ideal Candidate

• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Experience writing content for bids, tenders, and business proposals.
• Experience with business development and obtaining business intelligence.
• Demonstratable experience working with and maintaining AI technology.
• Experience working in high-pressured deadline-driven environments.
• Possess a conscientious nature with a high attention to detail.
• Experience liaising and building relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Excellent time-management skills
• Willingness to travel for work when required.
• Knowledge of tendering processes e.g., NHS England Commissioning processes.

About the Company

We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency, and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.

We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.

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