Proposal Writer

Job Title:                Proposal Writer
Location:                Flexible, UK + Hybrid Working Arrangements 
Compensation:      £45,000 - £50,0000 Dependent on Experience + Benefits
Role Type:              Full time / Permanent 
Role ID:                  SF59525

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. You will be empowered to ask challenging, probing questions on every opportunity and work with skilled subject matter experts to deliver quality outputs in line with recognised best practice.

Day-to-day, you’ll focus on working closely with subject matter experts 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
• Work with subject matter experts (SMEs), who will act as content owners, to develop ‘bottom-up’ bid content using various techniques, including one-to-one interviews and workshops
• 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

This role is full time, 37.5 hours per week and requires travel as and when required across the UK to support bids alongside home working arrangements.

Essential experience of the Proposal Writer:

• Experience of effective proposal writing on large, complex, and strategic bids
• Experience of Shipley proposal practices (or similar)

Qualifications for the Proposal Writer:

• Educated to degree level

Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain

Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

What we offer 

• Generous holiday allowance 
• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
• 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 the majority of 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
• Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.

Babcock International 
For over a century Babcock  has 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. 

We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email careers@babcockinternational.com with the subject header ‘Reasonable adjustments requirement’.

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: 27/09/2024