My client is seeking an exceptional Graduate Bid Strategy Consultant to join their Frameworks and Bids team.
Working alongside the Head of Frameworks and Head of Bids, you will learn how winning business solutions are developed, evaluated and translated into successful framework submissions and bid responses.
We are looking for an exceptional graduate or early-career professional with outstanding analytical ability, strong commercial thinking and excellent written communication. Your role will be to understand customer challenges, design credible business processes and communicate clear, evidence-based solutions that maximise evaluation scores.
Key Responsibilities
- Analyse customer questions and evaluation criteria to understand what the customer is really asking.
- Design practical, credible business processes and operating models that address customer challenges.
- Research, analyse and challenge information from subject matter experts and other sources to develop evidence-based solutions.
- Produce clear, persuasive and professionally written submissions that are accurate, consistent and aligned to customer requirements.
- Contribute to the company’s library of reusable bid content, methodologies, business processes and case studies.
- Learn the company’s approach to bid strategy, framework management and solution development through mentoring from experienced consultants.
Education & Experience
- Degree educated with an excellent academic record.
- History graduates are particularly attractive due to their training in research, critical thinking and structured written argument. We also welcome candidates from other disciplines with a strong emphasis on analytical thinking and problem solving.
- Graduate or up to 2 years of professional experience.
Experience may have been gained through:
- Business process improvement.
- Operational consulting.
- Research and analysis.
- Technical authoring.
- Dissertation or thesis-based academic research.
- Any professional environment where analysing complex problems and developing structured solutions are central to success.
- Exceptional analytical ability.
- Able to understand what a customer is really asking and develop a logical, evidence-based response.
- Strong business process and problem-solving skills.
- Curious, intellectually driven and eager to learn.
- Highly organised with exceptional attention to detail.
- Uses AI to accelerate research, analysis and document development.
- Applies critical thinking and professional judgement to validate AI outputs
- Uses technology to improve quality, productivity and accuracy.
You will receive structured mentoring from experienced bid and framework professionals, developing specialist expertise in bid strategy, business process design and framework consultancy. As your experience grows, you will take increasing ownership of complex bid responses and framework submissions.
What Success Looks Like
During your first 12 months you will:
- Contribute to live bids and framework submissions.
- Develop advanced analytical, business process and writing skills.
- Build the knowledge and experience required to progress into a Bid Strategy Consultant.
No previous bid writing, framework or public sector experience is required. Full training, mentoring and structured development will be provided.
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