Proposals Writer

Location: Dartford or Manchester

This role does not offer sponsorship 

The Opportunity:

Join Laing O'Rourke's high-performing UK proposals team and help shape the stories that win major building and infrastructure projects. You'll play a key role in crafting compelling proposals alongside a respected and collaborative bid team. If you're a strong writer who thrives on deadlines, enjoys learning, and values teamwork, this is your chance to contribute to a team with a market leading win rate. In return, you'll gain exposure to diverse projects, develop your skills, and grow your career in a supportive environment.

What will the role look like?

• Develop, write and edit high quality material that responds to client needs and articulates win themes through understanding client needs and scoring criteria
• Collaborate with bid team and functional subject matter experts (SMEs) through answer planning, coaching, interviews and workshops to translate technical narratives into simple, client-focused responses
• Participate in response review sessions; provide feedback to SMEs/bid teams to ensure their solutions meet the response requirements and marking criteria
• Ensure consistency through the use of a house style and glossary
• Check and proof-read final copy prior to submission and finalise responses within bid submission deadlines
• Review and edit evidence pieces and other bid collateral to help others, highlighting exemplar responses and evidence for our collateral management system
• Capture lessons learnt – identify issues blocking success, share learning, make necessary changes
• Make effective use of technology to maximise the team's productivity and responsiveness

What skills & experience are we looking for?

• Collaborative worker with excellent, accurate written and verbal communication skills– including exceptional command of grammar, tone and clarity
• Innovative thinker who can contribute positively
• Attention to detail, to ensure we fully answer and evidence every question
• Organised and able to manage challenging deadlines
• Takes pride in their work and enthuses others
• Curious to learn from feedback, share insights and develop best practice
• Commitment to their continual professional development supported by our APMP corporate membership

Location and team:

Our UK proposals team works from both our Dartford and Manchester offices, operating as one integrated team on nationally significant pursuits. This position reports to the Proposals Writing Manager and can be based from either location. The role will sometimes involve travel between each location to build team relationships and meet business needs for individual bids.

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.

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.

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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