# Bids Assistant

**Company:** [Stride Treglown](https://jobs.workable.com/companies/dq8BJNFvqCPc5UvTFPGfdW.md)
**Location:** Bristol, United Kingdom
**Workplace:** on site
**Employment type:** Full-time

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## Description

**About Stride Treglown**

Stride Treglown is an employee-owned, carbon neutral, B Corp, multidisciplinary design practice creating long-term positive impact for clients and communities. With 330 architects, planners, landscape designers and specialists across 9 UK studios, we combine deep local knowledge with national expertise to design better places, build resilient partnerships and empower people.

**Why join us?**

Because you’ll help shape winning work for one of the UK’s most respected independent design practices.

**The Role**

We are looking for an organised, proactive and creative Bid Assistant to join our Work Winning team. Working under the guidance of our Bid Co-ordinators, you will help prepare proposals and tender submissions for architecture, planning, landscape and other design-led projects.

This is a junior role focused on research, administration, content gathering and document production. You will support several bids at different stages, helping the team produce accurate, well-presented submissions. Bid Co-ordinators will lead bid programmes, manage contributors and oversee the final response; you will help them deliver that work and develop your knowledge of the bid process

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Key Responsibilities**

-   Check contract notices and bid portals, record relevant opportunities and pass them to the Bid Co-ordinators for review
-   Gather background information to support go / no-go discussions led by senior colleagues
-   Update bid trackers, schedules and document folders, flagging upcoming deadlines or missing information
-   Request and collate project details, team CVs, images and other material from design teams and external collaborators
-   Update standard content, including practice information, project case studies and CVs
-   Help draft straightforward responses using approved information and guidance from the Bid Co-ordinators
-   Proof read and check submissions for accuracy, consistency and compliance with client instructions
-   Format documents and presentations using agreed templates, including supporting InDesign production
-   Record clarification questions, submission outcomes and feedback, and help keep the bids platform up to date

## Requirements

**Essential**

-   Strong administrative and organisational skills, with good attention to detail
-   Clear written communication and proofreading skills
-   Ability to manage assigned tasks, meet deadlines and raise questions when guidance is needed
-   A collaborative approach and confidence communicating with people across different teams
-   Good working knowledge of Word, Excel and PowerPoint

**Desirable**

-   Experience supporting bids, proposals or other deadline-driven documents
-   Familiarity with Adobe InDesign, or an interest in learning it
-   An interest in architecture, design, construction or the built environment
-   Awareness of bid processes or public-sector procurement

## Benefits

**What We Offer**

-   Salary: £26,500 - £30,000 (Depending on Experience)
-   Minimum 4 days per week
-   Flexible working environment
-   Comprehensive benefits package
-   Family-style culture
-   Opportunity to work on meaningful, high-profile projects

**How to Apply:**  
Please apply via our website and include:

-   A Cover Letter explaining why you are the right person for this role
-   A CV outlining your professional achievements and experience

Stride Treglown is a Disability Confident Committed Employer and is committed to inclusive recruitment practices. We will provide a fully accessible recruitment process and offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role.