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Proposal Designer
September 21, 2022 | Comments Off on Proposal Designer
Proposal Designer
Can you own the design of client facing presentations and tender visuals that can help Laing O'Rourke stand out from our competitors and convey sometimes complex engineering solutions and tender offers in creative, visual ways that can be understood by any readers?
Behind every pursuit is a team effort that channels the expertise of our business. Our proposals team is where this expertise converges, collaborating with our internal bid teams to co-create proposals that compel our clients to choose us.
In each and every case, effective visuals in our bids plays a crucial part. You will bring the creative thinking, as a visual thought leader you will support our bid and proposal team members to guide them and translate their thoughts into easy to follow, visually inspiring presentations, tender visuals and executive summaries that help evaluators understand our tender offer and in turn award us the tendered projects. You will also be the 'go to' in the team for the composition and selection of our best project photography, helping us showcase the power of our experience in our documents and presentations.
As an experienced designer having worked as part of an in-house creative team in construction, consultancy and professional services you will be able to design directly into PowerPoint and Word blended with your advanced capability and skills in Adobe Creative Suite. You will have a strong portfolio of work with a range of examples of presentations, infographics, marketing materials, brochures and other media.
Do you want to be part of a high-performing team bidding to deliver some of UK's most iconic new buildings and infrastructure? Do you want to work in an organisation with a positive bid culture, where the skills and expertise of the proposals team is acknowledged and respected alongside subject matter experts?
You will have a design degree, but most importantly you are a natural creative and it runs through everything you do. Coupled with a passion for learning - always picking up on new design trends and software skills. You enjoy collaborating with your team and get a buzz from the energy of a deadline.
In return, you get to work on a diverse array of pursuits, develop your proposals and bid skills and benefit from opportunity for career progression within our team.
Key responsibilities of the role:
- Ability to project manage the creation of visual-based high-quality presentations with bid teams and sector leads, designing directly in PowerPoint so that the content can be edited by any of the team
- Hone messaging and edit text using their knowledge of the LOR business and our value proposition to ensure that it is concise and aligned to bid strategy
- Confidence to bring constructive challenge to whether a visual will add value and/or may be trying to convey too much information
- Responsible for their own work, checking for correct use of colours, logos, spelling and messaging directly with bid stakeholders
- Versatile to work effectively across a variety of media, including PowerPoint, InDesign and Word, while also keeping up to date with the latest trends in digital media and publishing
- Ability to review client and consultant issued bid documents to understand the project brief, client hot buttons and deliverables, informing their work in a proactive manner
- Works closely and effectively with the rest of the integrated proposals team, to support peers to relieve any pressure points in document production to complete high quality bids, assisting with Word and PDF document production
- Works to produce complete suites of bid visuals in-line with visual guidelines, working with subject matter experts to simplify complex structures and processes in their design work through collaborative working, including summarising and content editing
- Project manages the creation of executive showcase documents, owning the storyboarding process, advising on text edits to maximise design impact and collaborating with internal teams on images and animation deliverables
- Brand and visual identity guardian for the proposals team - ensuring guidelines are easy to follow and kept up-to-date with evolution of created presentations and documentation
About us:
We are an international engineering and construction company delivering state-of-the-art infrastructure and buildings projects for clients in the UK, Middle East and Australia.
Certainty, reliability, quality - this is what our clients want. And at Laing O'Rourke, we have more than 150 years of experience delivering it.
Laing O'Rourke's story is one of energy, passion, ambition, people and teamwork. We harness the power of our experience, stretching back over a century and a half to deliver certainty for our clients.
Diversity and sustainability:
We value and care about difference at Laing O'Rourke and believe a diverse team drives innovation.
We are a global multicultural business committed to the inclusion of all employees, enabling everyone to feel accepted, respected and valued for being themselves.
We have set out far-reaching global sustainability targets including a commitment to achieve equal numbers of men and women amongst our global staff by 2033.
Additional:
We want to ensure our recruitment process is accessible to all. If you need the application form in an alternative format or you would like to know more about our recruitment process, then please get in touch.