Bids & Tenders Assistant

An exciting opportunity exists to join one of Australia’s high growth private businesses.

You can play a key role within a leading Business-to-Business supplier of workplace supplies to create and review content used in tenders, proposals for our Bids and Knowledge Management function.

Your opportunity is to create high-quality documents and enable easy access to content that present our solutions, features and benefits to win and retain customer contracts.

**More about our benefits**
- Flexible hybrid workplace
- Competitive remuneration with excellent bonus scheme
- Generous Reward and Recognition programs
- Access to ongoing training and career development programs
- Access to free Mental Health programs
- Birthday and Anniversary Day off
- Free onsite parking
- Employee discounts on full product range
- Opportunity to participate in community welfare and charity initiatives.

**More about what you’ll do**

In this newly created role to support our business growth, your passion for writing and publishing will contribute to the success of our customer retention and new business goals.

Reporting to the Bids and Contracts Manager, you are empowered, to create and control customer related content that provides clear, succinct and impactful explanations of our features and benefits for the customer.

Key responsibilities include:

- Manage access and retrieval of content within the existing databases of customer-related documents within the content libraries (Expedience, Knowledge Hub and SharePoint)
- Maintain a program of reviewing content and proactively engage with Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) to revise, update and innovate content.
- Collaborate with SMEs through “interviews” to identify, create and update Content to:

- Maintain documents with new features from new product or innovation releases,
- Create new content, infographics, templates to evolve the presentation of our “offer”.
- Maintain version control for reuse in proposal, tenders and ad-hoc requests.
- Archive content and templates no longer required.
- Create documents and presentations ensuring compliance with brand guidelines as required.
- Review, edit and control documents, templates and company information for the Bids Team for the purposes of efficient writing of bids, tenders and proposals.
- Maintain version control, folder structure and file naming to support efficient access and sharing of content across the Sales team and wider business.
- When required, contribute to writing tender and proposal responses.

**More about you**

The ideal applicant loves writing If you are a University Graduate who is looking to use marketing and/or business administration learning into action in our Business-to-Business sales environment.
- Strong attention to detail with the use of spelling, grammar and visual appearance of documents.
- High Attention to detail in formatting, and templating across Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
- Experience with reading, writing and editing capability overviews, business updates, company policies and sales presentations.
- Proficient in word processing, exposure to marketing or journalism or passion for reading, writing and document publishing.

**More about COS**

When you join COS you’ll be working for a growing business servicing many of Australia’s most well recognised companies and government agencies. You’ll be part of a socially responsible organisation who provides equal employment opportunities to a talented and diverse team of passionate people.

You will be joining a talented team that live and breathe our 6 core values - Passionate, Results Driven, Innovative, Self Reflective, Family and Service Excellence. At COS, we work together to find smarter ways to deliver on our Company Purpose: Keep Australian Workers Healthy, Safe and Productive. We are passionate about maintaining a business culture that focuses on professionalism with heart.

Through the success of our business COS has been proud to give back over $15 million to community through the Lyone Foundation. Each year through the Lyone Foundation, COS supports Australian charities who are focused on human welfare and are underfunded.

Founded in Australia 46 years ago, today with over 600 employees located across every State of Australia, COS are leaders in our industry, and we’re ready to welcome you onboard

**How to Apply**

**'COS can offer you not just a job but a career.**

**If you are interested, we'd love to hear from you