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Sustainability Senior Advisor (Work Winning)
October 28, 2022 | Comments Off on Sustainability Senior Advisor (Work Winning)
Sustainability Senior Advisor (Work Winning)
Dartford or Manchester
Permanent - Full time, hybrid working available
What is the opportunity?
We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Sustainability Advisor to join our environmental and sustainability team in a work winning capacity. This role will provide support to our tender activities, support the work winning team and drive our sustainability agenda.
This role will be responsible for supporting our bid teams and developing industry-leading sustainability responses for pre-qualification questionnaires and tenders. Although primarily focussed on work winning, the role will also include working with the wider sustainability function to embed environmental, social and governance procedures at project level.
What are the key deliverables?
- Evaluate all bids/questions as they arrive and support the development of environmental, social and governance related responses.
- Coordinate activities across our environmental, social and technical work winning teams both in pre-bidding, tendering and post-tendering
- Capture, develop and share evidence of exemplar sustainability performance from across the group for inclusion within future bids.
- Work closely with our internal customers and stakeholders (Clients and Markets team, Bid teams, etc) to meet strict deadlines for all submissions.
- Develop exemplar sustainability responses with appropriate evidence, taking them through our working winning processes from storyboard through bronze, silver and gold review prior to submission
- Contribute to the wider agenda of the function and organisational sustainability strategy, supporting the head of sustainability, social value and environmental leaders as required.
What are the key skills needed?
- Good understanding of work winning procedures and how to develop a high-quality bid submission
- An outstanding writing style that is clear and concise, focusing on the customer and is market leading in answering pre-qualification and tender questions.
- Excellent time management skills with the ability to thrive in pressurised situations, including ability to work on multiple projects and programmes and achieve tight deadlines
- Understanding of local and national sustainability frameworks, such as the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals, UK Government's Social Value Model
- Understanding of broad sustainability concepts from climate change and decarbonisation, biodiversity and social value
Don't match all the criteria? We are open and always happy to hear from people with transferable skill sets and a commitment to learning.
Would you like to know more 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 & 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 & 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, please get in touch.