Senior Bid Writer
Are you a natural storyteller with a sharp eye for structure and detail? Do you thrive in a collaborative environment, transforming technical content into compelling, client-focused proposals? We are looking for a Senior Bid Writer to join our dynamic team and play a pivotal role in creating winning tender and Early Contractor Involvement (ECI) submissions.
About the Role
As a Senior Bid Writer, you will partner with our Bid & Estimating Team, as well as experts across our design, construction, and development teams. This role is central to our business development strategy and requires someone who can craft well-structured, persuasive submissions that align with client expectations and business goals.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the creation of tender and ECI submissions, leveraging our extensive project library and collaborating with subject matter experts to extract and translate technical content into engaging written responses.
- Write high-quality content tailored to each bid, ensuring accuracy, relevance, and alignment with both tender requirements and company objectives.
- Edit and proofread bid documents for clarity, consistency, and compliance with client specifications.
- Manage bid writing through the entire lifecycle—from pre-qualification and submission to post-bid support activities.
- Conduct in-depth research on project requirements and industry trends to strengthen our proposal strategy.
- Maintain a bid tracking system to monitor submissions and support timely delivery of all proposal-related activities.
- Foster collaboration between internal departments and external stakeholders to ensure a cohesive, high-performing bid team.
- Contribute to the preparation of presentations and marketing materials that highlight our unique value proposition and capabilities.
About you
- Bachelor’s degree in Communications, Marketing, Business, or similar (or equivalent experience).
- Solid experience in bid writing, preferably within government construction, infrastructure, or development sectors.
- Exceptional writing, editing, and communication skills, with a strong attention to detail. Must be advanced in MS Word. Knowledge of InDesign is desirable, but not necessary.
- Ability to understand and convey complex technical information clearly and concisely.
- Excellent organisational and project management skills with the ability to work on multiple bids simultaneously.
- A proactive and collaborative mindset, comfortable working with a wide range of stakeholders.
- Experience in using tender and document management platforms is advantageous.
About McNab
McNab is one of the largest privately owned Construction, Development and Property groups in Australia, with turnover now exceeding $1bn each year. Despite our growth and size, we've never lost our small company DNA - which centres around genuine care for our staff, customers and all our stakeholders. Success for us isn't about awards or growth, it's when we deliver so well that our customers are proud to wear a McNab T-Shirt on weekends!
We genuinely care. We make it easy. We deliver certainty.
This is our promise - to our clients, and everyone we deal with. Delivering on these three things really, really well is what drives us at McNab. Everything we do, from recruiting and training to performance and promotion, centres around this promise.
We leverage the entire McNab Group to deliver certainty for our clients at a time of unprecedented uncertainty in the industry. And our approach works. From delivering our own property developments, to manufacturing our own building products, and a plethora of aligned businesses, your career at McNab goes well beyond traditional construction roles.
McNab benefits:
- Birthday leave – Celebrate your special day on us!
- Social Club and team events – Work hard, play hard with regular team events.
- Annual health and fitness subsidy – Stay fit and healthy with our health benefits.
- Parental leave program – Supporting you through life’s important milestones.
- Employee Assistance Program – We’ve got your back, with support whenever you need it.
- Tailored development opportunities – We invest in your growth with tailored training programs.
With a culture of having fun and doing our job really, really well, we want people on our team who share our values, bring new ideas and want to make a difference. Sound like you? APPLY NOW or Visit mcnab.net.au/work-with-us for more information.
