Bid Writer - North West
What’s in it for you…
We believe in looking after our people, and it shows. When you join Ipsum, you’re not just taking a job — you’re starting a career with real support behind it.
About the role…
As a Bid Writer, you will play a key role within our growing Business Development and Bid team, supporting the creation and delivery of high‑quality submissions across a variety of sectors. You’ll collaborate closely with colleagues across multiple departments, coordinating and managing internal inputs for PQQs, bids, presentations, case studies and other BD materials.
Strong communication skills—both written and verbal—are essential, as you will act as a central point of contact for gathering information, shaping compelling responses, and ensuring the accuracy and consistency of content, including copy‑checking and proof‑reading contributions from others.
As a Bid Writer you will…
About you…
You will bring proven experience in producing successful bids, ideally within the construction or industrial sectors, along with a solid understanding of public and utilities procurement regulations. Knowledge of the UK utilities markets—particularly power and/or water—is advantageous. Highly organised and detail‑focused, you’ll demonstrate strong literacy, grammar and document‑presentation skills, supported by excellent computer proficiency across Microsoft Office applications including Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint and SharePoint.
You’ll be an effective communicator, capable of managing multiple deadlines and projects simultaneously, while working proactively and using your own initiative. A creative eye for producing professional, visually engaging documents is essential, as is a collaborative, flexible team ethic. You will also have the ability to build strong, influential relationships at all levels of the business, supported by a bachelor’s degree in Communications, Marketing, Media Studies, Journalism, Business Studies or a related discipline, or equivalent experience.
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At Ipsum, we provide specialist engineering services across the UK’s regulated water and energy companies and private sector businesses.
We work with our customers to maintain, optimise and develop their above and below ground assets to ensure security and resilience, and with our smart systems and ways of working, we ensure we deliver on time, on budget and safely.
At Ipsum, we develop long-term working relationships with our customers by providing essential utility services on both public and private networks. We have many long-term contracts and framework arrangements in place which are built upon great customer service, safe working practices and the ability to flex and deploy specialist skillsets at short notice.
The growth of Ipsum has been built upon our people and our ability to meet the demanding and ever-changing needs of our customers. The UK utility sector is evolving and expanding to meet increasing customer demand, regulatory-driven outcomes and to exploit new innovative technologies, at Ipsum we will continue to grow in this sector by being a reliable, flexible and agile service partner that helps customers meet these new challenges.
As we know, utility service provision is not a 9 to 5 business, our customers don’t switch off their networks or assets at night, or at the weekends, or on holidays, or when things are quiet. They need them to work round the clock – and we at Ipsum are right beside them 24/7 to make sure they do.
We pride ourselves in providing specialist scheduled maintenance services, being able to respond to an individual call-out or mobilise onto a major upgrade project and that our customers can rely on Ipsum 24/7/365.
