Bid Writer (Healthcare)

Job Title: Bid Writer (Healthcare)

Job Location: Belfast, UK

Job Location Type: Remote

Job Contract Type: Full-time

Job Seniority Level: Mid-Senior level

Join Kainos and Shape the Future

At Kainos, we’re problem solvers, innovators, and collaborators - driven by a shared mission to create real impact. Whether we’re transforming digital services for millions, delivering cutting-edge Workday solutions, or pushing the boundaries of technology, we do it together.

We believe in a people-first culture, where your ideas are valued, your growth is supported, and your contributions truly make a difference. Here, you’ll be part of a diverse, ambitious team that celebrates creativity and collaboration.

Ready to make your mark? Join us and be part of something bigger.MAIN PURPOSE OF THE ROLE & RESPONSIBILITIES IN THE BUSINESS:Our vision is to create a world-class business development and marketing capability for

Kainos, fuelled by a diverse range of highly talented and motivated professionals working collaboratively and innovatively to continue our growth trajectory.

We do this via an open and supportive environment where colleagues can share information, learn from one another and excel in their own career. With consistent ways of working aligned to industry best practice, we build sustainable and predictable sales pipelines for our market-leading offerings.

As an experienced Bid Writer in the Healthcare sector of our Digital Services business, you will create compliant, submission-grade content for bid responses, ensuring the high quality of our proposals to win new business. As a pivotal part of our pre-sales function, you will collaborate closely with sales leads and bid teams to understand our clients real requirements, develop our win themes, author high-scoring responses, and guide the team to a high quality, end-to-end proposal.

You will join our pre-sales team as part of our sales community, where you will bring your analytical and authoring skills, together with a strong interest to further develop your industry knowledge. You will be joining a passionate and growing Healthcare sector team intent on transforming the industry through data, technology and responsible innovation, to help people live longer, healthier lives and unlock new clinical breakthroughs.

Based at home but required to travel to Kainos London and other locations whenever appropriate.

You Will Be Responsible For

• Understanding bid requirements, creating storyboards and producing response plans
• Ensuring compliance with bid requirements - ensuring adherence to the client’s formal
• Applying win themes and following bid strategy – leveraging Kainos and our partner
• Fully answering questions – by writing, editing and reviewing submission responses
• Engaging with SMEs for content - through interviewing and knowledge elicitation
• Drafting content and editing
• Tracking and reporting progress - planning and managing all aspects of a coherent,
• Contributing to bid productivity improvements – owning and driving bid production
• Upskilling people - training staff new to bid responses in best practice approaches, as
• We are looking for someone with a minimum of 5 years’ experience in a relevant
• Some familiarity with the technical detail relating to the delivery of modern digital
• Experience in bid writing of customer proposals of significant scale
• Strong awareness and understanding as to what constitutes submission grade content.
• Highly capable of multi-tasking and prioritising tasks with the ability to work under
• We all work in teams here in Kainos – a proven ability to motivate team members and
• We are passionate about developing people – a demonstrated ability in mentoring
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to communicate
• Strong critical thinking skills to interpret and disaggregate often complex compound
• A self-starter who is highly motivated and proactive with respect to personal
• A person who is affable, credible and enthusiastic who pride themselves on delivering
• Understanding of IT procurement frameworks used in the UK Healthcare and Public
• Hands-on experience of having delivered digital services using Agile and user centred
• Familiarity with the UK Healthcare delivery landscape, including the organisational
• Understanding of how Generative AI tooling can improve the efficiency of bid

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