Proposal Writer

Job Title: Proposal Writer
Location: UK, Remote Worker - Flexible Location
Compensation: £45,000 - £50,000 dependant on experience + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF56237
At Babcock we're working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Proposal Writer.
The role
As a Proposal Writer, you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary. You will be a critical part of the wider Bid Team, helping us submit compelling, high-scoring, compliant responses that make it easy for customers to appoint Babcock.
Day to day, you'll will focus on working closely with subject matter expert (SME) to storyboard, draft, and finalise quality written responses and submission documents across a range of strategic, technical, and complex bids.

• Facilitate the storyboarding process of proposal documents, producing compelling, compliant, and impactful storyboards and mock-ups that effectively incorporate defined win themes
• Ensure mock-ups and response documents clearly articulate both features and benefits, and how this translates into value for the customer
• Work with SMEs to turn technical jargon and ambiguous language in to clear, concise, and tangible content
• Ensure written proposals align to the requirements and guiding policy set by the proposal strategy
• Assist in the development and capture of win themes specific to each deliverable, ensuring these tie back to the proposal strategy and overall value proposition

This role is full time, permanent and is fully remote. There is a requirement to travel periodically within the UK to a range of locations supporting bids and delivering business across various internal and customer sites, as and when required.
Essential experience of the Proposal Writer:

• Experience of effective proposal writing on large, complex, and strategic bids
• Experience of Shipley proposal practices (or similar)
• Good time management and organisational skills

Qualifications for the Proposal Writer:

• Educated to degree level.
• APMP qualification preferred

The successful candidate must be able to achieve SC security clearance for this role.
Our Benefits

• Generous holiday allowance
• Contributory Pension scheme, with life assurance
• Employee share scheme
• Employee shopping savings portal
• Payment of Professional Fees
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows most employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement
• 'Be Kind Day' enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity

Babcock International
For over a century Babcock International have helped to defend nations, protect communities, and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal.
If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please let us know. We're committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone's free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working - please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.
Closing date: 04/03/24
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