Bid Executive (contract until January 2027)
Application Deadline: 31 January 2026
Department: Marketing
Employment Type: Fixed Term - Full Time
Location: Home United Kingdom
Reporting To: Lisa Schofield
Description
A great opportunity for a Bid Executive to support the delivery of client and prospect bids, proposals and pitches across all Davies Group business areas.
This opportunity is a fixed-term contract which will start in late February/early March (subject to the recruitment and onboarding process) and continue until January 2027.
Key Responsibilities
- Work with bid team colleagues to support the coordination and production of bids, proposals and pitches that support client growth and retention across all business areas
- Engage with internal stakeholders to understand client requirements, challenges and expectations
- Coordinate bid response timetables to ensure stakeholders meet internal deadlines
- Draft, edit and proof bid content as appropriate to ensure responses align to client requirements
- Maintain relevant sections of the central library of core response materials to aid efficient drafting where appropriate
- Drive pricing protocol to ensure pricing requirements are understood, modelled and approved
- Support reporting of bid outcomes, live activity and pipeline movement
- Shared monitoring and management of the central team inbox ensuring timely triage of inbound communications
- Efficient management of incoming opportunities, to log, validate and track as appropriate with relevant subject matter experts.
Skills, Knowledge & Expertise
- A couple of years’ experience in a Bids/Tenders role, ideally within professional services (consulting, technology) or Insurance industries.
- Experience of end to end Bids project management experience, beneficial
- Strong verbal communication, and stakeholder engagement skills.
- Excellent written communication skills with some exposure to (copy)writing/editing
- The ability to work independently but also as part of a team, supportive to team members as required
- Comfortable working to tight deadlines and juggling multiple bids/pricing requests and support tasks
Job Benefits
Davies are committed to being a diverse and inclusive workplace. We welcome candidates of all genders, gender identity and expression, neurodiversity, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, age, nationality, and belief (or lack thereof).
- Join us and enjoy our ever-evolving benefits, including but not limited to:
- Reward platform – discounts for over 800 retailers
- 25 days holiday (rising with service)
- Well-being centre
- Recognition programme
- Paid fertility appointments
- Fostering friendly employer
- Pension – matched contribution at 5%
- Life Assurance (4 x basic salary)
- Development, training, and professional qualification