Job Description

Join us as an Bid Coordinator and make an invaluable contribution to our Food Safety & Biosecurity!
As a Bid Coordinator at Fera , you'll support and coordinate critical bid and tenders processes. Your role is central to shaping compelling bids, working with a dynamic sales team, and our science community, ensuring standout client responses that drive our business forward and have real world impact.
What you'll do:

• Support and Coordinate the bid process ensuring strict compliance adherence
• Identify daily tender opportunities to pursuit planning to tender response and handover to operations.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across all business functions to ensure timely bid management and deliverables.
• Creating, filling, and compiling bid documents according to client requirements
• Help to support a high-quality bid library and manage administrative tasks such as client portals and governance.
• Develop winning strategies and value propositions with sales teams and subject matter experts (SMEs).
• Work with the senior bid manager to team to produce visually engaging and client-specific submissions.

What you bring:

• Experience is bid coordination/ administration is essential, preferably within public sector or large technical projects.
• Strong communication skills to engage stakeholders across all levels.
• Excellent communication both written and verbal, creativity, and attention to detail.
• Proficiency in MS Word, Teams, and PowerPoint; knowledge of AI-driven tools is a plus.
• Resilience, adaptability, and a passion for producing market-leading outcomes.
• Experience in target sectors such as Science or Research and Development Sectors, including Agriculture or Food Safety would be highly desirable.

What's in it for you?

• ?25 days' holiday (rising to 29) with the opportunity to buy & sell extra leave.
• Flexible working hours, on-site gym, restaurant, and free parking
• The opportunity to take a paid day out of the office, volunteering for our charity partners or a cause of your choice
• Company matched pension, life assurance, a cycle2work scheme, 15 weeks' fully paid maternity, adoption and shared parental leave, paternity pay of two weeks...and plenty more.
• Voluntary benefits designed to suit your lifestyle - from discounts on retail and socialising, to health & wellbeing, travel and technology
• Fera operates a LTIP ( Long Term Incentive Plan) under which all employees are awarded points towards shares in the Employee Benefits Trust on an annual basis. The Employee Benefits Trust holds shares on behalf of our employee, at the point of an equity event the shares will realise a cash value.

What we hope you'll do next:
Choose 'Apply now' to fill out our short application, so that we can find out more about you. If you have any questions you'd like to ask before applying, you can contact
We're an equal opportunity employer, which means we recruit and develop people based on their merit and passion. We're committed to providing an inclusive, barrier-free recruitment process and working environment for everyone. If you need the job description or application form in an alternative format or if you'd like to discuss other changes or support you might need going forward, please email at and we'll get back to you. #LIremote
At Fera, we're making the world a better, healthier and safer place. We're a joint venture partnership between Bridgepoint and Defra and we're working proactively to protect the world we live in and the food we eat. Our teams are investigating plant and bee health, crop protection and sustainable agriculture. Join us and discover better as you deliver world-class science for the future.

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