We are looking for someone with a passion for managing, writing, and editing compelling bid responses. You will be working in a highly regarded and experienced bid team, comprising a Senior Bid Manager and Bid Lead, and in close partnership with our legal, finance, marketing, and knowledge teams. This is a highly visible role, where you will support Directors and Partners to create compliant and compelling tender responses. We typically respond to at least four tenders a month and our win rate is consistently around 60%.
Our Team are proud to have played a pivotal role in securing many high-profile and strategically important contracts for Newton. As our business continues to rapidly grow, driven by a strong pipeline and a strategic push into international markets, the Bids Team play an increasingly critical role, supporting a growing volume of opportunities with greater complexity, diversity, and strategic impact.
With support from the Senior Bid Manager and the Bid Lead, this role will see you;
This role is based at our Head Office in Kingston Bagpuize, Oxfordshire, with a minimum one day per week in the office and occasional travel for in-person bid working and company events.
Requirements
This is an ideal role for a junior bid manager, bid coordinator, copywriter, proposal specialist, bid or tender writer looking to develop their career in an ambitious, growing organisation.
Newton is a demanding, yet highly rewarding, environment within which to work. You will require a positive attitude and high levels of personal drive to succeed as part of an exceptional and dynamic group of peers.
We’ll be looking for similar characteristics in you, including:
Benefits
Newton maximises the potential of our people, whether in client-based consulting roles, or in head office functions. The prospects for career and personal development in this role are no exception. Our business continues to grow, through our historically effective organic recruitment model and our recent acquisitions and commitment to international expansion. This business growth, and our continual striving to add more value from every function of the business, creates significant opportunities for those with the right capabilities and attitudes.
Supporting you starts from day one. New joiners often highlight the Newton energy and support they first encounter in the recruitment process and that continues through into their time at Newton. Once in role, you’ll get support from several sources – from stretching projects, on-the-job feedback, and developmental guidance from senior leaders. You’ll have a dedicated and consistent Development Manager to support your career progression. You’ll receive regular appraisals and annual pay reviews. To support your own professional development and enable you to contribute industry best practice to Newton, the Bid Specialist will have the opportunity to work towards APMP (or equivalent) certifications.
We offer a highly competitive salary (£45,000 - £50,000) and our generous benefits package includes Life Assurance, Income Protection, pension contributions, and 27 days holiday (not including bank holidays). We also operate a profit share scheme so that our people share in the success of the business. The profit share bonus is based on company performance and typically paid out in March and September.
Joining us also brings many social benefits. We have a full social calendar with Spring activity days, Christmas events, a 2-day Summer event, Ski trip, and 5 Newton-sponsored weekends a year.