Senior Bid Coordinator - #1698577

Your opportunity

Ridge and Partners is a growing built environment consultancy focused on helping clients create better, more sustainable places for people to live, learn, work and play.  Our aim is always to deliver outstanding service to clients and provide our people with the support, opportunities, and environments they need to flourish. 

We are looking for a curious and confident self-starter with the potential to become a key player in our busiest work-winning team. 

What you need to do to be effective in this role 

• Responsibility for all stages of the bid cycle 

• Working with relevant members of the team to create and craft compelling bid responses that showcase the best that Ridge has to offer 

• Researching and gathering inputs from multiple stakeholders, where necessary 

• Managing the bid timetable to ensure bid team members respond in line with the bid plan, all deadlines are met, and all bids are compliant and commercially sound 

• Reviewing bid documents and pulling together previous relevant bids and best-practice answers 

• Proofing and editing colleagues’ bid response documents, ensuring each document contains the required information for a successful bid, with sufficient focus on the quality and innovation we bring to projects 

• Working with bid team members to ensure a consistent quality of bids 

• Continuously improving and enhancing the standards and effectiveness of our written responses in conjunction with the Bids and Marketing teams 

• Preparation of client presentations and capability statements 

The skills and experience you need to have for this role 

• Significant experience of delivering quality bid submissions in a fast-paced B2B professional services environment 

• Demonstrable experience of producing and coordinating bid responses and draft documents 

• Experience preparing submissions across the public and private sectors 

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills  

• Phenomenal attention to detail 

• Excellent time management, strong organisational skills and ability to prioritise 

• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office – InDesign knowledge an advantage 

• Experience working with bid portals 

Qualifications 

• APMP Certification an advantage 

About us

We are Ridge, a Built Environment Consultancy. We help our clients transform the quality and sustainability of the built environment.

Our 1,000+ people bring a vast range of skills, delivering a professional mindset, gritty discipline and a genuine passion to every one of the thousands of projects they undertake each year. They’re the foundation of our success - they drive our vision, embody our values and separate us from the competition.

Come and join us if you’re hungry to be part of an exceptional team - if you put quality first - if you’re motivated by ingenuity and if you’re always aspiring to be the very best.

The benefits package we have put together for you supports every aspect of your life.

We believe that everyone performs their best when they feel like they belong and can be their true selves at work. As an equal opportunities’ employer, we will support you to ensure you have everything you need to be successful and achieve your best in your career at Ridge. If you’d like to discuss accessibility, accommodations or adjustments during your application and selection process, please contact us at **********@ridge.co.uk and we will work with you to ensure you feel included and supported.

A polite note to Recruitment Agencies
We enjoy great relationships with our agency partners within our framework, and fully believe in the value of a blended approach to finding the best talent. However, we are recruiting for this role directly and aren’t seeking support from agency partners at this time – any unsolicited CV introductions won’t be honoured, and we won’t grant candidate ownerships on any introduction that you make for roles that haven’t been briefed and released to you by our Talent Acquisition team.

We are committed to nurturing strong partnerships within our agency framework, but there are occasions where we looking to enlist the help of others. If you would be interested in working with us in the future, please send a message to **********@ridge.co.uk, and we’ll reach out to you should there be an opportunity.

We are recruiting for this role directly and aren’t seeking support from our agency partners. Any unsolicited CV introductions won’t be honoured, and we won’t grant candidate ownership on any introductions you make for roles that haven’t been briefed and released to you by our Talent Acquisition team.
If you are a recruitment agency who doesn’t currently work with Ridge but would like to, please send a message to **********@ridge.co.uk, and we’ll reach out to you should there be an opportunity.

We are recruiting for this role directly and aren’t seeking support from our agency partners. Any unsolicited CV introductions won’t be honoured, and we won’t grant candidate ownership on any introductions you make for roles that haven’t been briefed and released to you by our Talent Acquisition team.

If you are a recruitment agency who doesn’t currently work with Ridge but would like to, please send a message to **********@ridge.co.uk, and we’ll reach out to you should there be an opportunity.

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