Bid Writer  |  Neuven Consult

Working hours – 09:00am – 18.00 Monday-Friday

Location: Remote working’ and ‘on occasion you will be required to attend the offices in Manchester for meetings with management and/or your colleagues’

A Bit About Us

Neuven is a multi-award-winning consultancy business for all your temporary staffing and workforce management needs. Through our core service provisions and technology platforms, we provide, Audit compliance services, Training, Bid Management & Business Consultancy.

We are the UK’s leading experts in this field and are expanding quickly to meet the growing demands of Central Government, NHS and wider Public sector.

The successful candidate will join a team of successful individuals to ensure we exceed our sales targets and KPI’s to make Great Britain’s businesses grow at a faster rate.

Employees can take full advantage of our benefits package which consists of medical care, eye care, market leading pension scheme incentives and great training, development and career progression.

About the Role

Role

Produce professionally written proposal and pitch content that superbly articulates the organisations value proposition and win themes. This is a highly networked role that requires a forensic attention to detail, the ability to work under pressure and demanding deadlines. The Bid Writer plays a leading role in ensuring the effective co-ordination and timely completion of tenders, notably the written exemplars responses. The Bid Writer is required to research their market to ensure a full understanding for the pillar that they will be writing for. Ensuring knowledge is up-to-date at all times is crucial in ensuring that written content is accurate and looks to achieve the maximum score possible. Th Bid Writer is typically engaged to help develop the value proposition and articulate the win themes and solution narrative. It is heavily involved throughout the Bid Phase and will work with the other members of the team to ensure the timely and accurate completion of the bid submission. The Bid Writer will be responsible for engagement with the customer to undertake fact finding in order to support the written element of the bid. This include the creation of exemplar responses, which also includes easy to follow guidance notes for customers – allowing them to provide clear and concise information to support the written response.

Experience

Proven skills in writing and editing proposal content within a complex business environment. The Proposal Writer will be experienced in leading storyboarding sessions, participating in key review meetings / final document review, content sign-off, and document production. Excellent written English language skills are essential for this role. Experience of coordinating / managing and updating a knowledgebase system is also desirable.

Core Responsibilities

Re-write / edit proposal responses from a variety of stakeholders, typically involving contributions from sales, marketing, product teams, finance, commercial, legal and delivery.

Ensure win themes are articulated in such a way to meet / exceed the client’s requirements.

Deliver completed written proposal responses to the Proposal Manager against agreed RFP deadlines, escalating issues as required.

• Lead/support in storyboard sessions with the bid team
• Support the Bid Team in the deconstruction of Bid Packs
• Undertake market research for the kick off meeting and various stages of the bid process
• Write, edit and submit high quality content, completing documents to deadline and ensuring they are of consistent quality and style
• Proactively develop and manage a network of subject matter experts
• Assist the Pillar Lead and Bid team in creating and managing bid schedules at the various stages of the bid process
• Identify and re-work existing pre-written content where relevant
• Present and tag all new proposal content to the knowledgebase manager for potential re-use
• Knowledge of proposal automation software
• Communicate and influence at a senior level
• Excellent time management / prioritisation skills
• Forensic attention to detail and meticulous proof-reading skills
• Maintain, manage and back up master document sets
• Quality Checking other Bid Writer/Teams responses and submissions
• Undertake fact finding sessions with customers
• Create and manage draft response, including supporting guidance notes

Measure of Success

Typical measures of success include error-free, grammatically correct on-time proposal content, high scoring proposals answers against client RFP criteria and achievement of internal SLAs.

Qualifications

Strong academic background (degree level) in English Language or equivalent is desirable. Creative Writing Qualification. APMP Foundation (Practitioner or Professional level desirable).

Job Type: Full-time

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Work remotely:

• Partial (flexible)

Bid Coordinator  |  Neuven Consult

Working hours – 09:00am – 18.00 Monday-Friday

Location: Remote working’ and ‘on occasion you will be required to attend the offices in Manchester for meetings with management and/or your colleagues’

A Bit About Us

Neuven is a multi-award-winning consultancy business for all your temporary staffing and workforce management needs. Through our core service provisions and technology platforms, we provide, Audit compliance services, Training, Bid Management & Business Consultancy.

We are the UK’s leading experts in this field and are expanding quickly to meet the growing demands of Central Government, NHS and wider Public sector.

The successful candidate will join a team of successful individuals to ensure we exceed our sales targets and KPI’s to make Great Britain’s businesses grow at a faster rate.

Employees can take full advantage of our benefits package which consists of medical care, eye care, market leading pension scheme incentives and great training, development and career progression.

About the Role

The Bid Coordinator will co-ordinate and produce the proposal (RFI, ITT, RFP etc.) document. Responsibilities include introduction and implementation of all necessary document version control procedures and processes. This role requires the highest levels of attention to detail and an ability to work under pressure and to demanding deadlines. The Bid Coordinator is involved in eleven Bid Lifecycle stages. The effort / commitment required at each stage varies and is shown in our core role overlay.

Experience

Proven ability in planning, producing and delivering compliant proposal documents within a complex business environment. The Bid Coordinator will be experienced in attending proposal kick-off meetings, participating in storyboarding sessions, attending review meetings / final document review, managing document governance / sign off, document production (electronic and hard copy), and delivery of the completed proposal.

Core Responsibilities

• Production and delivery of compliant, professionally produced proposals within procurement defined timeframes
• Coordinate proposal input from a variety of stakeholders, typically involving contributions from the customers, sales, solutioning, marketing, product, finance, commercial, legal and project delivery functions
• Ensure customers comply with timescales and escalate where necessary
• Champion collaboration tools, document management and version control best practices
• Ensure proposal documents follow corporate branding guidelines, standard formatting and quality standards
• Provide advice on flow, language and grammar to content owners
• Consolidate sections and/or documents developed by others team members into the required tender format
• Maintain, make available and backup master document sets
• Typical measures of success include error-free, grammatically correct on-time proposal content, high scoring proposals answers against client RFP criteria and achievement of internal SLAs
• Manage and track all engagement with the central procurement bodies including live bid activity and future planning
• Manage diary activity for all stakeholders
• Bid writing and management

Qualifications

Strong academic background (degree level preferred but not essential) in English Language or equivalent is desirable.

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Work remotely:

• Partial (flexible)

Business Development Executive | Neuven Consult

Location: Manchester & Home Based

The Role:

Many businesses in the UK could benefit greatly from accessing public sector procurement frameworks, which make it possible to transact directly with government departments in an efficient and cost-effective way, saving the company and the UK taxpayer time and money. However, the many of these businesses do not possess the resource or experience required to be successful in this process on a consistent basis. Neuven Consult bridges this gap by providing an end-to-end consultancy service to businesses with a desire and capacity for public sector contract growth and enables them to access public sector spending to the tune of billions of pounds.

As a Business Development Executive reporting to the Sales Manager, your daily plan will include prospect identification where you will assess a client’s relevance to an upcoming requirement in the public sector, decision maker engagement to determine the client’s need for our services, setting appointments with the client and our sales director, and consolidating these appointments to ensure meetings take place at the agreed time and day. Full training support will be provided by your line manager who is an experienced sales coach with a fantastic track record.

Experience:

• Outbound (cold calling) experience (essential)
• Excellent organisational skill
• Consultative selling approach and experience will be advantageous.
• Proven knowledge and awareness of active listening skills
• B2B selling experience
• Motivated, passionate individual with a desire to deliver an exceptional experience
• Ability to organise and prioritise tasks effectively
• Good IT Skills
• Experience of working in a target-driven sales environment
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal – active listening skills
• Proven track record of exceeding sales KPI’s, acquiring new business and building customer relationships
• Work as part of a team
• Consistent high achiever
• Have a keen eye for attention to detail

Core Responsibilities:

• Manage your leads and prospect potential clients to qualified appointments using a combination of telephone prospecting, email, and social selling.
• Connect with owners/decision making committees within relevant businesses.
• Take a consultative approach to identify your potential clients’ needs.
• Set appointments for our directors with businesses that have demonstrated a significant need for consultancy support in gaining public sector revenue growth.
• Support the Sales Director / Sales Manager in the 360 sales process.
• Achieve individual and team KPI’s such as appointment volume & quality, sales revenue, and sales conversion.

What We Offer:

• Defined career path so you can successfully be promoted from within the Sales Department on your merits.
• Support from our comprehensive sales induction and ongoing training with our Sales Coach and wider team.
• Benefit from regular in-house training to further develop sales techniques.
• Contributing to regular team building sessions
• Recognition for top performing Sales Executives
• Positive company environment with staff retention with average staff tenure of 6 years of our 10 years trading.

Why Choose Neuven:

We are a “Best Companies” listed company with an accredited outstanding commitment to workplace engagement. We are a multi-award-winning consultancy business, and through our Neuven Consult division, we provide audit compliance services, training, bid management & business consultancy.

 We are the UK’s leading experts in this field and are expanding quickly to meet the growing demands of central government, NHS and the wider public sector.

The successful candidate will join a team of successful individuals to ensure we exceed our sales targets and KPI’s to make Great Britain’s businesses grow at a faster rate.

With a £20,000 to £25,000 per annum basic (based on experience), realistic OTE of £35-40k and uncapped commission, you are in control of your own earnings, the sky is the limit, it’s up to you!

We offer excellent employee benefits – including a healthcash plan, health screening, a portal which gives access to many discounts, training courses and a wellbeing centre.  Plus the opportunity to purchase additional holidays.  All of this and more within an inspiring, professional and fun environment – underpinned by our uncompromising Neuven values.

Our offices are close to Manchester Airport and we have adopted a hybrid working model which enables you to work from both home and the office.

Interested? Click here to apply.

Bid Writer/Reviewer | Neuven Solutions

Location: Manchester & Home Based

The Role:

Produce professionally written proposal and pitch content that superbly articulates the organisation’s value proposition and win themes This is a highly networked role that requires forensic attention to detail, the ability to work under pressure, and demanding deadlines. The Proposal Writer plays a leading role in ensuring the effective coordination and timely completion of tenders. The Proposal Writer is involved in sixteen Bid Lifecycle stages. The effort/commitment required at each stage varies. The Proposal Writer is typically engaged to help develop the value proposition and articulate the win themes and solution narrative. It is heavily involved throughout the Proposal Phase and typically exits after Clarification Questions have been submitted.

Experience:

Proven skills in writing and editing proposal content within a complex business environment. The Proposal Writer will be experienced in leading storyboarding sessions, participating in key review meetings / final document review, content sign-off, and document production. Excellent written English language skills are essential for this role. Experience in coordinating/managing and updating a knowledgebase system is also desirable.

Core Responsibilities:

Re-write / edit proposal responses from a variety of stakeholders, typically involving contributions from sales, marketing, product teams, finance, commercial, legal and delivery.

Ensure win themes are articulated in such a way as to meet/exceed the client’s requirements.

Deliver completed written proposal responses to the Proposal Manager against agreed RFP deadlines, escalating issues as required.

• Lead storyboard sessions with bid/proposal team members.
• Undertake market research for the kick-off and solution meetings.
• Proactively develop and manage a network of subject matter experts.
• Assist the Bid / Proposal Manager in developing a proposal structure.
• Identify and re-work existing pre-written content where relevant.
• Ability to coach sales and solution/SME teams in writing best practices.
• Present and tag all new proposal content to the knowledgebase manager for potential re-use.
• Knowledge of proposal automation software.
• Communicate and influence at a senior level.
• Excellent time management/prioritisation skills.
• Forensic attention to detail and meticulous proofreading skills.

The measure of Success:

Typical measures of success include error-free, grammatically correct on-time proposal content, high-scoring proposal answers against client RFP criteria, and achievement of internal SLAs.

Qualifications:

Strong academic background (degree level) in the English Language or equivalent is desirable. Creative Writing Qualification. APMP Foundation (Practitioner or Professional level desirable).

Interested? Click here to apply.