AddressAbout the Role
Ventia is seeking a full-time Senior Bid Writer to play a pivotal role in securing opportunities for our ANZ Transport business. You will produce high quality bid content and work collaboratively with teams on multi-authored documents to meet strict deadlines.
This is a hybrid role with the flexibility of working from home and from one of our North Sydney, Parramatta, Melbourne, Brisbane or Perth Offices.
As a Senior Bid Writer you will:
- Produce high-quality bid responses incorporating required content and key messages
- Collaborate with subject matter experts to develop section responses
- Write targeted bid content from research, interviews and discussions
- Provide substantive and final editing within tight timeframes.
- Develop Win Themes with the bid team and ensure those themes are woven through bid responses
- Facilitate peer reviews for written documents
- Review written content to ensure alignment to bid strategy and client priorities
- Track Progress of written documents to ensure review and submission dates are met
- Manage or provide guidance to external writers when required for larger bid proposals
- Lead coordination of submissions where required
Benefits
- Flexible working arrangements
- We take your career seriously, helping you learn and grow with access to programs including the Essential Leader Program and Women Leading program.
- Discounts on Health Insurance, banking (new home loans, credit cards, everyday bank accounts), flights & accommodation, car hire, car leasing etc
- Access to a variety of wellbeing initiatives including Ventia's Healthy Minds and Healthy Bodies programs.
About you
- At least 5 years' experience preparing complex bids in a tier 1 bid environment
- Proven professional level writing and editing skills
- Superior communication skills, including knowing when and how to communicate in the bid environment
- Strategic thinking skills that help draw out win themes and client drivers
- MS Word formatting skills (use of Styles and macro templates)
- Knowledge of the infrastructure industry including asset management, road construction, operation and maintenance.
- Able to work collaboratively in fast paced teams
Preferred attributes include:
- Professional writing/editing qualification
- Tertiary qualification in marketing, journalism or similar
- Bid process training - Shipley and Miller Heiman preferred
- Experience in strategy, win theme and/or content development
- Ability to develop supporting imagery/graphics.
- MS PowerPoint formatting skills
- Adobe InDesign or Canva formatting skills
Diversity
Ventia is enriched by the diverse experiences, talents and cultures that our people bring to the organisation, while celebrating and respecting the communities we operate in. We are committed to providing a safe and positive environment that provides equal opportunities for individuals of all backgrounds, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, Māori and Pasifika people, LGTBQI+, Women, Veterans and spouses and people with disabilities.
Position Reference Number: 158625
