Graphic/Bid Designer (16 month FTC)

Job Purpose

A fundamental part of our success is the ability to be consistent throughout the business, maintaining the high standards of the BW brand. The role of a Bid/Graphic Designer is to bring support, creativity and innovation to all BW documentation. Reporting directly to the Head of Creative Services, you will be responsible for tender collateral, presentations and innovative ideas, as well as introducing creative templates, site artwork and assisting in maintaining the BW libraries as detailed below, keeping other BW departments at a steady pace of brand consistency, whilst evolving and leading from within the Creative Services department.

The role of Bid/Graphic designer is a full time fixed term contracted position working five days a week, Monday to Friday, from 08:30 until 17:30.

Job Scope

The successful candidate will produce innovative and consistent documentation, with an internal focus on templates and libraries for the Creative Services department; duties will include, but not be limited to the following:

• Oversee all assigned bespoke Creative Services projects, from conception to delivery, ensuring 100% quality and consistency with the BW brand as set out by the Head of Creative Services.
• Work on multiple deadlines (PQQs, PTIs, Tenders) concurrently.
• Responsible for ensuring documentation produced by yourself is 100% correct; proofread, spell checked and consistent, in standard company format, before being issued to the client.
• Assisting in maintaining all processes for the Bid Design division of Creative Services.
• Ensuring understanding of Creative Services KPIs, functions and goals.
• Ensuring quality standards for all assigned projects.
• Identifying the need for corrective actions and ensuring the quality standards for all processes.
• Engaging and co-ordinating with others across the organisation.
• Provide updates and/or reports on efficiency, productivity, processes and other performance indicators to the Head of Creative Services.
• Ensuring works are completed on time, and worked on to the creative designer’s own initiative as much as possible, gaining assistance from appropriate members of the company where appropriate.
• Time management across all workload. Ensuring 100% record of meeting deadlines, without fail.
• Leading the innovation throughout all individual work produced.
• Actively liaising with other departments to agree the content and ideas for required documents/presentation documents and be actively involved from preparation to delivery.
• Ensure all internal brand guidelines are adhered to, and solutions are in place where necessary, keeping Bid Design and the forefront of brand innovation.
• Liaising frequently with all other bid team members involved with the tender process ensuring that individuals are up-to-date with the progression of documentation and workload.
• Keeping up-to-date with the latest technologies and innovations inside and outside of our industry, to ensure BW continue to produce industry leading collateral.
• Set the standards for WDGLL for internal documentation and collateral throughout BW departments.

Candidate Profile

The successful candidate must be able to demonstrate the personal qualities, values and attitudes which are so important to the business and to the role:

• You must possess excellent InDesign skills; alongside good Photoshop and Illustrator skills, other Creative Cloud applications are highly recommended also.
• You must possess a positive attitude and a passion for innovation and change combined with the ability to demonstrate the resilience to implement new ideas and initiatives.
• A desire for self-development is valuable as is the ability to encourage on-going development in others.
• You will also be a strong, proactive team player with the ability to multi-task and prioritise whilst showing support, encouragement and excellent organisational skills to ensure that deadlines are adhered to.
• You must demonstrate great attention to detail with excellence in written communication to ensure the highest possible standards of grammar and accuracy are achieved at all times and IT skills including Word, Outlook and Excel as a minimum.