Business Development

Location - London or Winchester

Contract - 9 months fixed term contract

Hours - 3 days per week (21 hours per week) to include Monday and Friday

Portfolio - please supply a portfolio to accompany your application

Lane Clark & Peacock (LCP) is a leading independent consultancy that uses powerful analytics fused with human expertise to shape a more positive future. We provide market-leading capabilities across pensions and financial services, energy, health, and analytics. Our technology and analytics capabilities are fundamental to what we do, helping us power the possibilities that provide solutions for tomorrow.

We strive to help our clients leverage the latest technology and analytics across a range of industries to stay at the forefront of data-driven and digital solutions.

We are looking for a Bids Artworker to join our team on a 9 months fixed term contract, 3 days a week basis (to include Monday and Friday). You will help win business and retain and grow it by managing high profile and complex tenders. The role will work closely alongside the other members of the bid team, our business development colleagues, and partners.

We are looking for:

• A creative designer who thrives on the challenges of designing tenders and works collaboratively in the pursuit of winning, understanding the difference good design can make to the delivery of a message, and can create images and visual ideas that deliver complex messages with fewer words.
• Someone who can deliver and develop creative concepts and ideas when timescales allow, but can also work under time pressure when needed.
• A skilled communicator who can liaise with internal clients to understand their design needs and implement their requirements to time and budget.
• An innovator that brings, and is willing to drive, new ideas, and support our improvement programme across work winning.
• A strong relationship builder who has gravitas when engaging at all levels both internally and externally.

Your key responsibilities:

• Day to day ownership of bid design tasks, allocated by the Bid Design Manager, working within the LCP Bid Process to agreed defined timelines.
• Complete bid design tasks to assist in providing a bespoke design service for all tenders whilst maintaining the integrity of the LCP brand.
• Working with the Bid Design Manager, in collaboration with the bid manager, to ensure any design is representative of the win strategies and themes, scheduling concept reviews into the creative delivery of the tender documents and pitch materials.
• Maintain an efficient design process that allows collaboration and innovation.
• Complete bid design tasks, working in collaboration with the pitch teams to deliver succinct, compelling and engaging pitch materials to prospects and existing clients.
• Work with subject matter experts to turn written, numerical and existing content into compelling graphical representations.
• Support to the improvement programme in winning work and promote best bidding practice across LCP and beyond.
• Assist in the building and maintaining of a strong library of graphics, photos, icons and other visual material.
• Provide ad-hoc support to the client development team with work winning presentations and documentation.
• Provide ad-hoc support to the design team including LCP's marketing materials and collateral we produce for LCP's clients on their behalf.

What skills, qualities and experience are we looking for?

• A Designer with demonstrable experience, preferably within B2B professional or financial services, with experience on tenders.
• Track record of working on winning design processes resulting in measurable commercial success.
• Adobe Creative Cloud (InDesign, Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop), Microsoft Office suite (for design purposes).
• Creative and capable of producing professional, impactful visual designs within brand guidelines for sales and marketing purposes.
• Confident and credible in working as part of a larger design team to help concept design development workshops.
• Excellent time management skills – prioritising, organising workload and planning.
• Excellent attention to details.
• Ability to work collaboratively in a team and also independently.
• An understanding of professional services – in particular financial, actuarial, consulting, investment and insurance markets would be valuable.

What's in it for you? Take a look at our Glassdoor and Career stories pages to see why our people love being here! As well as joining a multi-award winning, fun, collaborative, people first organisation where your personal and professional skills will be developed to make you the best you can be, we offer an attractive benefits package designed to promote your overall wellbeing so that you are able to perform to your full potential both in and out of work. Currently our core benefits package includes:

• Access to our internal Wellbeing, LGBTQ+, Multicultural and Women's networks.
• Life assurance.
• Income protection.
• 26 days annual leave (pro-rata for part-time working/fixed term contracts) plus bank holidays (most of which can be taken flexibly!) with options to buy & sell holiday.
• Private medical insurance.
• Discounted gym memberships, critical illness and dental insurance through our flexible benefits.
• Digital GP services.
• Volunteering opportunities.

LCP is committed to making our opportunities accessible to all and would welcome you getting in touch to let us know if an adjustment can be made to help with your application. This may be extra time for assessments, pre-interview site visits, interview structure or questions, or asking us about building accessibility. Whatever it may be, please get in touch via our dedicated email address - accessibilityaware@lcp.uk.com to discuss how we can support you with your application.

LCP operates a Preferred Supplier List (PSL) for recruitment agencies which is reviewed annually. We do not accept unsolicited CVs from agencies who are not part of our current PSL. LCP only pay agency fees where we have a signed agreement in place, and the agency has been instructed by a member of our recruitment team to supply CVs via the Applicant Tracking System (ATS) for a legitimate, open vacancy. If this process is not adhered to, LCP reserve the right to contact these candidates directly and have discussions with them without paying any agency fees.