Bid Writer

Shakespeare Martineau is a Top 50 law firm that combines creativity, commerciality and clarity. We work with blue-chip companies, leading organisations, high street brands and individuals across the country.

As enterprising and original thinkers, we’re driven to create exceptional experiences for our clients and our people. We handle personal and business-critical issues and game-changing deals across many dynamic sectors. It’s stimulating and rewarding.

We’re hardworking and deeply ambitious about creating opportunities for our employees; to move forward and achieve our ambition together. We provide an environment in which you’re supported to reach your potential.

Our people have a blend of excellent technical and business skills with the talent to do things differently.

Here you’ll find top quality work, cutting edge training, high profile clients, and supportive colleagues. We think it could be time you joined us.

To provide truly outstanding client service we work as one team.  Our Business Operations Group is made up of business professionals who work with our legal professionals to provide market leading expertise to our clients.  The Groups include; Finance, Operations, HR, Marketing, IT, Risk and the Executive Leadership team.

Our Sales & Marketing team play a crucial role in helping the firm achieve its ambitious growth plans. The team is aligned to the business, shaping, embedding and delivering against the strategy, helping to retain and attract new clients whilst putting the client at the heart of everything we do.

The team of around 20 is based in Birmingham, Leicester and Nottingham. They are multi-disciplined, offering a range of services including client & business development, growth-led marketing, PR and communications and event planning for the firm. They pride themselves on understanding the changing marketplace, clients, legal groups and the sectors in which the firm operate to offer specialist knowledge and expertise.

The role:

We are looking for a Bid Writer to work closely with the Proposals Manager and team to coordinate and project manage bids and tenders to support the firm’s ambitious growth plans.

You will assist on producing high quality tenders, proposals and capability statements to meet strict deadlines.

Your key duties will be:

• working with the Proposals Manager and wider BD team to support partners with bid activity
• working with the Proposals Manager to contribute to the management of bids, or elements of bids, which includes:
  • facilitating and coordinating meetings
  • helping to draft and review content from a sales perspective
  • supporting in the creation of presentations, team sheets and cred statement  
  • handling complex administrative and bidding processes
• coordinating the wider BD team and partners to organise bid submissions and processes
• assisting in the production of monthly bid outcomes analysis, including new wins and track 12-month performance
• managing and logging feedback to continuously improve performance

Skills and experience you will have:

• a minimum of 12 months’ experience in a similar role in professional services is desirable
• ideally previous experience with both the Public and Private sector tender processes
• strong written and verbal communication skills
• solid IT skills

Key competencies you will need:

• self-motivation and energy with a “can-do” personality
• strong attention to detail
• committed to delivering excellent levels of service to internal and external clients at all times
• flexible and able to react to change and prioritise accordingly
• willingness to work flexible hours, and, as necessary, additional hours to fulfil the role

About you – you will be:

• highly enthusiastic, willing to go the extra mile and be happy to go beyond the job description
• respectful towards others and have a positive, willing and ‘can do’ attitude
• keen to learn, interested in driving your own career progression and be proactive in taking ownership of this

Due to the nature of the work undertaken, confirmation of employment will be subject to a variety of checks which will be carried out once an offer of employment is accepted. Details of the checks can be found here.

Shakespeare Martineau is a committed equal opportunities employer. We seek to attract, develop and retain talented people from a diverse range of backgrounds and cultures. We value and respect individuality and encourage a culture within our business where people can be themselves and be valued for their strengths and experiences. Everyone who either applies to or works for the firm is treated equally, regardless of their gender, age, ethnic origin, nationality, marital status, sexual orientation or religious beliefs.