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Location: Dartford or Manchester

The Opportunity

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. 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
• 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

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
• Attention to detail, to ensure we fully answer and evidence every question
• Organised and able to manage challenging deadlines
• Commitment to 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.

We are open to candidates with transferable skills 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. Laing O'Rourke has more than 150 years of experience delivering certainty, reliability, quality and teamwork.

Accessibility and Inclusion

We participate in the Disability Confident scheme and offer an interview scheme to enable access for candidates with long-term health conditions and disabilities. Please let us know prior to interview what adjustments are required and how we can support you in the workplace. If you need the application form in an alternative format or would like to know more about our recruitment process, please email resourcingteam@laingorourke.com