Bid Consultant

Location: Greater Manchester, United Kingdom

Salary: £35,000 per annum

Company

Manchester-based bid writing and consultancy business established in 2015, supporting clients with tender success across more than 1,200 bid projects.

What you will do

• Write, review, and refine high-quality bid responses across multiple industries, ensuring submissions are compelling, accurate, compliant, and evidence-led.
• Own bid projects from opportunity through submission, maintaining workload management, utilisation, budgets, deadlines, and delivery standards.
• Manage client relationships, set expectations, provide expert advice, and constructively challenge clients where appropriate.
• Lead client meetings, kick-offs, workshops, bid reviews, wash-ups, and lessons-learned sessions with stakeholders including senior decision-makers.
• Identify risks, gaps, and opportunities within bids and recommend effective solutions.
• Support, coach, and mentor Bid Consultants and Graduate Consultants while contributing to bid best practice and service development.

Requirements

• At least 2 years of experience in bid management and bid writing, ideally within a consultancy or client-facing environment.
• Degree-level education or equivalent relevant experience.
• Experience leading complex or high-value bids involving multiple stakeholders.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to adapt messaging to different audiences.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, including confidence in constructively challenging and influencing clients.
• Excellent attention to detail and the ability to analyse complex information and turn it into clear, persuasive responses.
• Strong organisational and workload management skills, with the ability to manage multiple deadlines and deliver reliably.

Culture & Benefits

• Personal and collaborative approach to client delivery.
• Focus on high-quality client service and evidence-led bid consultancy.
• Opportunity to contribute to delivery standards, service development, and continuous improvement.