Job

Bid Co-ordinator

Location: Watford Head Office
Type: Full-time | Office-based (hub-based role)

About the role

We're looking for a detail-driven Bid Co-ordinator to join our team at our Watford Head Office. This is a critical role supporting the wider business development function, coordinating and producing high-quality bid and proposal submissions that help drive future growth.

You'll manage the bid process end-to-end, ensuring proposals are compliant, professionally presented and submitted on time, while working closely with stakeholders across the business.

What you'll be doing

• Monitoring incoming bid opportunities via portals, emails and internal requests

• Coordinating and producing compliant proposals (RFI, PQQ, ITT, RFP and similar)

• Managing bid timelines, document control and version management

• Coordinating input from sales, marketing, finance, commercial, legal and delivery teams

• Ensuring all submissions meet branding, formatting and quality standards

• Reviewing content for structure, flow, language and grammar

• Consolidating multiple inputs into a single, polished submission

• Maintaining and managing master bid documentation

What we're looking for

Essential

• Excellent attention to detail and ability to work to demanding deadlines

• Strong written communication and document management skills

• Advanced MS 365 skills

• Ability to coordinate multiple stakeholders and priorities

Desirable

• Academic background

• APMP qualification

• Experience producing compliant bid or proposal documents in a complex business environment

• Knowledge of document templates, styles and macros

Why join us

You'll be part of a collaborative, professional environment with a structured induction, access to our Learning Hub, and clear performance and development frameworks. We value high standards, teamwork and a proactive approach, and we work in line with our values of integrity, respect, safety, inclusion and continuous improvement.

We have a fair and comprehensive selection procedure. We regret that if you have not been contacted within five working days that your application for this position has been unsuccessful. However, please check your junk email folder to ensure that an email from us hasn't been blocked by your spam filter. We receive many CVs and are unable to enter into telephone conversations until we have completed our initial selection procedure. As an equal opportunities employer, MSSI is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees and does not condone discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership. We aspire to have a diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply and join MSSI. MSSISupport Services is committed to making reasonable adjustments in order for all candidates who are successfully put through to the interview stage to be able to attend.