Bid Writer (Healthcare)

Job Title: Bid Writer (Healthcare)Job Location: Belfast, UKJob Location Type: RemoteJob Contract Type: Full-timeJob 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 procurement requirements and internal Kainos bidding processes, including completion of appropriate review processes. Applying win themes and following bid strategy – leveraging Kainos and our partnerstrengths, and understanding business and market intelligence in order to develop bid- specific win themes. Fully answering questions – by writing, editing and reviewing submission responsesdrawing on contributions and collateral. Engaging with SMEs for content - through interviewing and knowledge elicitationsessions 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 productioncontinuous improvement process initiatives, including AI tooling adoption, and cross sector collaboration. Upskilling people - training staff new to bid responses in best practice approaches, aswell 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 relevantcommercial environment with IT bidding experience and a sound awareness of current technology and business trends and their potential impact on sales opportunities. Some familiarity with the technical detail relating to the delivery of modern digitalservices (including bespoke software delivery, agile methodologies etc). 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 pressure and deliver to tight deadlines. We all work in teams here in Kainos – a proven ability to motivate team members andlead by example is crucial We are passionate about developing people – a demonstrated ability in mentoringand coaching colleagues and contributing to the wider community is important Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to communicatecomplex proposals in a way that is succinct and easy to understand. Strong critical thinking skills to interpret and disaggregate often comple