Assistant Business Development Specialist

Assistant Business Development Specialist

📍 Dartford
🌍 UK travel required

Why this role matters

This is an opportunity to step into a growing business, shape your own direction, and build a career with real momentum.

Vetter (part of Laing O'Rourke) is looking for someone who can bring energy into the team, push into the external market, and take ownership of opportunities from day one.

You will not just support activity. You will help influence where we go next.

What you'll be doing

• Build strong relationships with clients and consultants to unlock new opportunities
• Gather project insight and develop early‑stage opportunity plans
• Support and influence bids, proposals and presentations
• Use Salesforce to manage and track pipeline activity
• Create engaging LinkedIn and social content to enhance market presence
• Represent Vetter at meetings, exhibitions and industry events
• Work closely with internal teams to strengthen bid strategy and improve win rates
• Identify opportunities through market intelligence platforms
• Support PR activity, events and corporate engagement
• Produce clear, structured reports and project updates

What we're looking for

• High energy and ambition to build a career, not just do a job
• Self‑disciplined, organised and comfortable working independently
• Quick to learn and able to operate in a fast‑moving environment
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal
• Confident with IT tools for reporting, presentations and bid support
• Motivated to improve, take ownership and step into greater responsibility
• Flexible approach, including regular UK travel and occasional overnight stays

What sets this role apart

• Travel across the UK to sites and offices, seeing first‑hand what you are helping to shape
• A role you can make your own, with genuine scope to grow
• Exposure to a wide range of stakeholders, projects and commercial decisions

About Us

Laing O'Rourke 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.

As part of the Disability Confident scheme, we would like to enable access to candidates with long term 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 if you would like to opt in to this scheme and let us know if you require any adjustments for the interview process.

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 email resourcingteam@laingorourke.com

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