# Bid & Tender Writer

**Company**: Howden
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: Permanent
**Category**: Insurance
**Industry**: Insurance

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## Description

This role is responsible for the written content of high-value tenders, RFPs and pitch documents, supporting large, strategically important new business opportunities.

Working closely with senior New Business leaders and subject-matter experts, you will shape persuasive, client-specific responses that clearly articulate value, manage risk and support long-term client relationships.

**Responsibilities**

**Bid & Tender Writing**

- Write end-to-end responses for RFPs, ITTs and major tender submissions, crafting each response to the individual prospect

- Translate technical and specialist input into clear, compelling client language

- Structure proposals to tell a coherent, persuasive story aligned to client priorities and evaluation criteria

- Coordinate and synthesise input from senior stakeholders and subject-matter experts

- Ensure submissions are accurate, compliant and meticulously detailed

- Manage deadlines, version control and final submissions across multiple live opportunities

- Capture tender debrief feedback and apply learning to future bids

- Support the refinement of the firm’s wider value proposition and messaging

**Presentation & Design Support**

- Contribute to PowerPoint decks and pitch documents, focusing on narrative flow rather than design execution

- Review presentations to ensure consistency between written responses and visual materials

- Support structuring of executive summaries and key messages for senior audiences

**Requirements**

- Proven experience writing bids, tenders or proposals in a professional services environment

- Exceptional written communication skills and very strong attention to detail

- Strong Word capability and confident use of PowerPoint (content-led rather than design-led)

- Comfortable working in high-pressure, deadline-driven environments

- Confident engaging with senior stakeholders and technical contributors

- Structured, resilient and calm under pressure

**What we offer**

- A career that you define

- Our successes have all come from someone brave enough to try something new

- We support each other in the small everyday moments and the bigger challenges

- We are determined to make a positive difference at work and beyond

## Skills

### Required
- Bid writing
- Tender writing
- Proposal writing
- Communication skills
- Attention to detail
- Microsoft Word
- PowerPoint

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