Bids & Marketing Assistant - #1703695

Your opportunity

At Ridge and Partners, we are a growing, multi-disciplinary built environment consultancy helping clients create better, more sustainable places for people to live, learn, work and play. As part of our continued growth, we are looking for Bid Team Administrator to support our Defence team, based in our Bristol office.

What you’ll do:

• Provide assistance with submission documentation: bids, project case studies, CVs etc
• Working with relevant members of the team to, create and craft compelling bid responses that showcase the best that Ridge has to offer.
• Researching and gathering inputs from multiple stakeholders.
• Managing bid timetable to ensure bid team members respond in line with bid plan, all deadlines are met and that all bids are compliant and commercially sound.
• Reviewing previous relevant bids and best practice answers.
• Managing Microsoft Teams sites.
• Working in conjunction with the bid team to ensure central bid library is kept up to date.
• Proofing and editing colleagues’ bid response documents, ensuring each document contains required information required to create a successful, winning bid.
• Work with bid team members as a community of practice to ensure a consistent quality of bids.
• Continuously improve and enhance the standards and effectiveness of our written responses in conjunction with the bid and marketing teams.
• Preparation of client presentations and capability statements.

What you’ll bring:

• Experience of assisting with delivering quality bid submissions.
• Demonstrable experience of producing and co-ordinating bid responses and draft documents.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience of working with bid portals.

• Excellent time management and strong organisational skills
• Ability to prioritise and manage multiple tasks
• Ability to work under pressure and to deadlines
• Exemplar attention to detail
• Curiosity and creativity
• A high-level of interpersonal skills and a strong ‘can do’ attitude is essential

Qualifications and Tools

• Ideally degree qualified in a relevant subject, such as Marketing or English.
• Advanced knowledge in Microsoft Office (Outlook, PowerPoint, Word, Excel).

About us

We are Ridge, a Built Environment Consultancy. We help our clients transform the quality and sustainability of the built environment.

Our 1,000+ people bring a vast range of skills, delivering a professional mindset, gritty discipline and a genuine passion to every one of the thousands of projects they undertake each year. They’re the foundation of our success - they drive our vision, embody our values and separate us from the competition.

Come and join us if you’re hungry to be part of an exceptional team - if you put quality first - if you’re motivated by ingenuity and if you’re always aspiring to be the very best.

The benefits package we have put together for you supports every aspect of your life.

We believe that everyone performs their best when they feel like they belong and can be their true selves at work. As an equal opportunities’ employer, we will support you to ensure you have everything you need to be successful and achieve your best in your career at Ridge. If you’d like to discuss accessibility, accommodations or adjustments during your application and selection process, please contact us at **********@ridge.co.uk and we will work with you to ensure you feel included and supported.

A polite note to Recruitment Agencies
We enjoy great relationships with our agency partners within our framework, and fully believe in the value of a blended approach to finding the best talent. However, we are recruiting for this role directly and aren’t seeking support from agency partners at this time – any unsolicited CV introductions won’t be honoured, and we won’t grant candidate ownerships on any introduction that you make for roles that haven’t been briefed and released to you by our Talent Acquisition team.

We are committed to nurturing strong partnerships within our agency framework, but there are occasions where we looking to enlist the help of others. If you would be interested in working with us in the future, please send a message to **********@ridge.co.uk, and we’ll reach out to you should there be an opportunity.

We are recruiting for this role directly and aren’t seeking support from our agency partners. Any unsolicited CV introductions won’t be honoured, and we won’t grant candidate ownership on any introductions you make for roles that haven’t been briefed and released to you by our Talent Acquisition team.
If you are a recruitment agency who doesn’t currently work with Ridge but would like to, please send a message to **********@ridge.co.uk, and we’ll reach out to you should there be an opportunity.

We are recruiting for this role directly and aren’t seeking support from our agency partners. Any unsolicited CV introductions won’t be honoured, and we won’t grant candidate ownership on any introductions you make for roles that haven’t been briefed and released to you by our Talent Acquisition team.

If you are a recruitment agency who doesn’t currently work with Ridge but would like to, please send a message to **********@ridge.co.uk, and we’ll reach out to you should there be an opportunity.

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