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Proposals Designer
February 8, 2023 | Comments Off on Proposals Designer
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Talk to us about flexible, dynamic, job share and part-time working options.
What is the opportunity?
Can you own the design of client facing presentations and tender visuals that can help Laing O'Rourke stand out from our competitors? Can you convey complex engineering solutions and tender offers in creative, visual ways?
The Proposal Designer will support our bid and proposal team members to guide them and translate their thoughts into effective presentations. You will 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.
What will the role look like?
- Ability to project manage the creation of visual-based high-quality presentations with bid teams
- Use their project knowledge to summarise content including imagery, profiles, evidences and case studies
- Hone messaging and edit text to ensure we are aligned to bid strategy
- 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
- Works closely and effectively with the rest of the integrated proposals team, to support peers in document production to complete high quality bids, assisting with Word and PDF document production
- 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
- Capture lessons learnt - identify issues blocking success, share learning, make necessary changes
What skills & experience are we looking for?
- Creative thinker, able to put ideas onto the page
- A supporter, a trusted adviser - happy to guide those who can't think or convey their ideas visually
- Collaborative worker with excellent, accurate written and verbal communication skills
- Innovative thinker who can contribute positively
- Attention to detail, to reduce burden on the team through the need for edits and re-work
- Organised and able to manage tight deadlines
- Takes pride in their work and enthuses others
- Curious to learn from feedback, share insights and continually improve
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.
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:
Laing O'Rourke value and care about difference 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.
As part of the Disability Confident scheme, we would like to enable access to candidates with long term health conditions and disabilities through the 'Offer an interview scheme'. This supports applicants that meet the essential criteria by offering an interview for the advertised position. Please let us know prior to interview what adjustments are required as well as discussing how we can support you in the workplace.