Senior Proposals Writer

Senior Proposals Writer - Basingstoke (Hybrid)

Job Title: Senior Proposals Writer Location: Basingstoke, Hampshire (Hybrid working) Job Type: Permanent Salary: 50,000 to 70,000 (DOE) Bonus: Up to 10% company bonus Car: Company car or 5,400 allowance Benefits: Healthcare, pension up to 7% employer contribution (salary sacrifice possible)

About the Role

A leading UK infrastructure and highways organisation is looking for an experienced Senior Proposals Writer to take a lead role in producing high-quality, high-scoring submissions for major highways and civils opportunities.

This is a senior, strategic work-winning role supporting large, complex programmes typically valued 100m to 1bn+ , with a strong focus on Local Authority and wider public sector procurement . You will be expected to shape win themes, lead planning activity, and drive a consistent tone of voice across submissions.

This is not an entry-level writing role.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the development of winning value propositions for major highways and civils frameworks

• Shape and articulate compelling win themes tailored to Local Authority clients

• Run answer planning sessions and support senior review panels

• Ensure submissions align to evaluation criteria and scoring mechanisms

• Drive a consistent tone of voice across bid responses

• Produce structured, compliant responses for complex 100m+ programmes

• Coach and develop junior bid team members

• Manage evidence, case studies, and knowledge systems

• Support graphics input, document production, and final submission upload

• Work closely with senior stakeholders across work winning, estimating, commercial and operational delivery teams

• Stakeholder-facing involvement, with some customer-facing engagement as required

Essential Skills and Experience

• Strong track record writing and managing proposals within civils and highways infrastructure

• Proven experience bidding into Local Authorities (public sector)

• Experience leading submissions for large, complex programmes ( 100m+)

• Strong understanding of public sector procurement processes and evaluation models

• Experience facilitating planning sessions and managing reviews through to submission sign-off

• Comfortable operating in large, multi-disciplinary bid teams (often up to 50 contributors)

• Strong stakeholder management across technical, commercial and operational teams

• Ability to translate operational delivery detail into clear, compelling, differentiated narrative

Desirable

• APMP Foundation or Practitioner

• Degree in English, journalism, or professional writing background

• Advanced MS Word and document production skills

Working Pattern

• Hybrid: typically 1-2 days in the Basingstoke office and 2-3 days from home

• Flexibility required: likely more office-based time at key bid stages

Interview Process

• Two stages

• Stage 1: Remote (Teams)

• Stage 2: Face-to-face, including an exercise (details TBC)

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