Senior Author

Senior Author

Responsibilities

Leadership and Team Guidance:

• Support Lead author in briefing SMEs, and stakeholders on response approaches, client scoring mechanisms, and win themes (approach to incorporating them into responses).
• Clearly incorporate win themes and value proposition into responses
• Ensure SMEs understand their roles, responsibilities, and how they contribute to the overall pursuit.
• Contribute to bi-annual Authors Day to align ways of working, understand areas of improvement and lessons learned.

Strategic Response Development:

• Support the development of response strategies tailored to the client's scoring criteria, question requirements, and incorporating value propositions and win themes.
• Support fellow Authors and Question Owners in strategically translating the value proposition into high-quality written responses.

Quality Assurance:

• Work with Bid Manager and SMEs, to achieve quality response milestones (storyboard, pink and red reviews deadlines) to the necessary quality, making team accountable for their actions
• Lead with the support if required of Lead Author pink, red and gold review meetings.
• Translate high-level feedback during reviews.
• Implement work winning best practices (as per authoring guide), governance, and quality standards throughout the process.
• Escalate unresolved quality/output/ relationship challenges to Lead Author, Bid Manager or Bid Director (as appropriate).

Continuous Improvement & Training:

• Drive continuous improvement in quality
• Embed improvements/ learnings.
• Stakeholder Engagement:

• Work collaboratively with Lead Author/ Senior Author and Bid Directors during review processes to ensure alignment with strategic goals and client expectations.

Knowledge, Skills, and Experience

Essential

• Significant experience of leading and securing successful strategic bids
• Strong leadership qualities around influencing people and leading quality submission
• Ensures the client needs are at the heart of every quality submission
• Exceptional planning and organising skills, aligning to activities to successfully achieve outcomes
• Understands, and balances multiple stakeholders needs.

• Effective problem solving.

Desirable

• Experience bidding both construction and consultancy opportunities
• Experience in the Transportation and Natural Resources sectors