Company Description
Goaco is an award-winning global consultancy, established in 2010, specializing in secure, user-centered, and innovative digital solutions. With headquarters in the UK and offices in the UAE and Saudi Arabia, Goaco excels in digital transformation, cybersecurity, data & AI, software development, and managed services. Recognized as UK Government digital experts, our team of over 100 specialists partners with clients to design and implement scalable and secure solutions. Goaco emphasizes agility and innovation, focusing on creating impactful outcomes that align with the needs of people, places, and the planet.
Role Description
Own the end-to-end bid process and produce high quality written submissions. You will co-ordinate contributors across technical, delivery, commercial and leadership teams to gather evidence, shape win themes and deliver compliant persuasive responses on time.
Key responsibilities
- Manage the bid process end to end across multiple live opportunities, maintaining plans, milestones, owners and deadlines
- Run bid kick-offs and planning sessions, capturing requirements, evaluation criteria, win themes and response structure
- Co-ordinate inputs from SMEs across Solution Architecture, Engineering, Delivery, Security, Commercial, Legal and Partners, chasing actions and resolving blockers
- Draft write edit and finalise written content including executive summaries method statements case studies CVs and compliance statements
- Own compliance: maintain the requirements matrix, ensure all questions are answered, apply word counts and submission rules and run final QA checks
- Manage review cycles (pink, red, gold or equivalent) and incorporate feedback quickly while protecting clarity and consistency
- Maintain bid documentation and version control using SharePoint and Microsoft 365, ensuring approvals and sign-off are recorded
- Prepare submission packs including required forms certificates schedules and supporting evidence
- Support clarifications and interview stages by preparing Q&A packs speaker notes and rehearsal plans
- Maintain an up to date bid library of reusable answers proof points case studies and CVs to improve speed and quality
- Lead post-bid reviews to capture lessons learned and continuously improve templates, processes and win rates
- Use AI tools responsibly to accelerate drafting, summarisation, compliance checking and content reuse while ensuring accuracy and evidence
What success looks like (first 36 months)
- Bid governance is consistent: clear plans, owners, review gates and reliable submission quality
- SMEs contribute efficiently because workshops, prompts and deadlines are structured and well managed
- Responses are clearer, more evidence led and better aligned to evaluation criteria
- Reusable content reduces effort while improving consistency across bids
Must have
- Proven experience writing and co-ordinating bids end to end in a consultancy or professional services environment
- Excellent writing editing and structuring skills with a focus on evaluation criteria and scoring
- Strong stakeholder management with confidence engaging technical contributors and senior leaders
- Strong organisation and process discipline: action tracking compliance matrices document control and QA
- Proficient with Microsoft 365 (Word PowerPoint Excel Teams SharePoint)
- Hands-on experience using AI tools to support bid delivery (drafting summarisation research content management) with appropriate judgement on quality and confidentiality
Nice to have
- APMP certification (or working towards)
- Broader UK public sector framework experience beyond DOS (e.g. Digital Outcomes variants, G-Cloud, Technology Services frameworks)
- Experience shaping win themes and running structured review cycles (storyboarding colour reviews)
- Light graphic or formatting capability for polished submissions (PowerPoint strong, InDesign optional)
- Experience building and maintaining bid content libraries and standard responses
- Experience writing bids for the Digital Outcomes and Specialists (DOS) framework
- Good working understanding of CCS frameworks and public sector procurement processes
