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. M AIN 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
procurement requirements and internal Kainos bidding processes, including completion
of appropriate review processes.
- Applying win themes and following bid strategy – leveraging Kainos and our partner
strengths, and understanding business and market intelligence in order to develop bid-
specific win themes.
- Fully answering questions – by writing, editing and reviewing submission responses
drawing on contributions and collateral.
- Engaging with SMEs for content - through interviewing and knowledge elicitation
sessions
- Drafting content and editing
- Tracking and reporting progress - planning and managing all aspects of a coherent,
high quality response including alignment with the Bid Manager to co-ordinate bid
team inputs, timeline and review activities.
- Contributing to bid productivity improvements – owning and driving bid production
continuous improvement process initiatives, including AI tooling adoption, and cross
sector collaboration.
- Upskilling people - training staff new to bid responses in best practice approaches, as
well as educating and sharing knowledge with sales/account teams and customers in
relation to bid production.
Minimum (essential) Requirements - We are looking for someone with a minimum of 5 years’ experience in a relevant
commercial environment with IT bidding experience and a soun