Graphic Designer (Bid)

Job Introduction

Are you a creative genius when it comes to PowerPoint Design? Do you have a proven track record success when it comes to improving Bids?

We are currently looking for a Graphic Designer to join our Europe region business development team in a home based role, with occasional travel to our Manchester office. You will be responsible for creating compelling designs, illustrations and graphics in a variety of formats, including but not limited to: high profile presentations, diagrams, maps, infographics, document design, exhibition materials and visual material.

You will be advanced with PowerPoint design, with strong skills in Adobe Photoshop, InDesign and Illustrator, and confident in your ability to visualize your concepts and articulate your ideas to clients. 

This is a fantastic opportunity to join our diverse and multi-cultural Bid Design team here at Sodexo, where you will be given the support and encouragement to train and develop your skill set, furthering career progression. While working in an exciting environment, coordinating across multiple European countries and gaining a wealth of experience. 

If you are a driven, pro-active individual looking to bring your creative and innovative ideas to the table, this could be the role for you. 

Role Responsibility

• End to end bid documentation and supporting material production
• Ensure compliance with the required proposal deliverables
• Work within a range of branded document formats and presentation templates
• Work with subject matter experts to turn written, numerical and existing content into compelling graphical representations
• Work with a range of software and design tools to create graphical output that can be incorporated in tender documents and accompanying materials such as presentations, brochures, documents wallets, delivery cartons, and occasionally videos/animations, websites, and other media as specified by the client
• Produce proposal graphics for use both in electronic and hard copy materials
• Precisely control and interpret information flow between team members

The Ideal Candidate

Essential requirements...

• Degree in creative/artistic discipline
• Advanced experience with PowerPoint formatting and design of PowerPoint presentation deck
• Advanced desktop publishing software skills such as Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat, InDesign, and Microsoft Office
• Experience of collaborating with diverse, cross cultural and multi-disciplinary teams
• A track record of improving bids, thereby creating confidence amongst the sales force that you can be trusted and be treated as an equal member of the sales team
• Proven skills in producing proposal content within a complex business environment
• Have strong attention to detail and excellent time-management, and organisational skills
• Fluent English, with other European language desirable

Package Description

Up to £50,000 + excellent benefits package

We also offer Sodexo Discounts site promoting discounted mobile phone tariffs, savings across restaurant chains and days out, where you and your family can save money on everything from your weekly food shop to the latest cinema blockbuster and much more

About the Company

In the UK and Ireland, Sodexo employs some 36,000 employees to deliver integrated facilities management services to clients at over 2,000 locations in the energy, corporate, healthcare, education, leisure, defence and justice sectors. With an annual turnover of over £1bn, we provide everything from catering, cleaning and reception to security, laboratory and grounds maintenance services, enabling our clients to focus on their core business. 

At Sodexo we are committed to a leading role in promoting equality opportunities and valuing diversity and inclusion. We seek to create a work environment based on mutual respect for all individuals, building a culture that appreciates and values the experiences and skills brought by each person to benefit our organisation and work hard to ensure that all people, whatever their race, colour, sex, gender identity  disability, nationality, national or ethnic origin, religion or belief, marital/partnership or family status, sexual orientation, age, social class, educational background, employment status, working pattern, are welcome to and included within our organisation.  

We’re a Disability Confident Leader employer. We’re committed to changing attitudes towards disability, and making sure disabled people have the chance to fulfil their aspirations. 

We are building on our support to the Armed Forces community through the development of specific pathways within our recruitment process to  support ex-forces personnel and reservists, those applying for jobs with us who meet the ideal candidate criteria for the role advertised are guaranteed to progress to the selection process.