Bid Designer

Role: Bid Designer
Salary: Flexible & Fantastic Benefits
Location: Woking

At Impact Food Group, we re more than a school caterer. The people are the heart of what we do. We re driven by creating a positive food culture and helping more students eat better food. Making a positive social impact is at the centre of our identity. We tirelessly learn, develop and make improvements in every way, every day.

Delivered by our distinct and industry leading brands; Innovate, Cucina and Chapter One, we cater for over 350,000 students. Find out more at (url removed)

Due to continued business growth an exciting opportunity has arisen for experienced Bid Designer to join the team at a really exciting time of growth. The Bid Designer will be responsible for The Bid Designer will coordinate and produce the bid or proposal response document. Responsibilities include the introduction and implementation of all necessary document version control procedures and processes concept. Reporting to our Sales Manager you will joining a growing a brilliant team that is making a real impact on the success of Impact Food Group.

What you will be doing

• This role requires forensic levels of attention to detail and an ability to work under pressure and to demanding deadlines. Creation of high impact graphics and proposal images that contribute towards producing a winning proposal. The Graphic Designer / DTP Specialist will work as an integral part of the bid / proposal team to ensure all customer facing documentation / media is of the highest visual impact.
• Production of proposal graphics for use both in electronic and hard copy materials. The ability to work with subject matter experts (SME) to turn written, numerical, and existing content into compelling graphical representations.
• Confident working with a range of software and design tools to create graphical output that can be incorporated in tender documents and accompanying materials such as CDs, brochures, document wallets, delivery cartons, websites, and other media as specified / required by the client.
• Production and delivery of compliant, professionally produced proposals within customer defined timeframes
• Coordinate proposal input from a variety of stakeholders, typically involving contributions from sales, marketing, product teams, finance, commercial, legal and delivery.
• Champion document management and change control best practices.
• Ensure proposal documents follow standard formatting and quality standards.
• Provide advice on flow, language and grammar to content owners.
• Consolidate sections and / or documents developed by other team members into the required tender format.
• Maintain and make available master document sets.
• Ensure consistent branding for all company specific documents.
• Develop proposal graphics that have impact and are easy to interpret.
• To ensure compliance with required proposal deliverables
• To create and manage a range of document and presentation templates.
• Precisely control and interpret information flow between team members.
• Ability to work in a deadline driven environment without compromising artistic creativity.

What we are looking for

• Degree in Creative / Artistic Discipline.
• Desktop publishing software skills such as Photoshop, Acrobat, InDesign, Corel and Microsoft Office.
• Attention to detail and a really positive team player and good interpersonal skills

• Creative and proactive to bring forward ideas to constantly evolve our tender collateral.

• Worked as a designer for a contract caterer would be ideal
• Worked on tenders in any format would be a plus and video creation would be a bonus.

What We d Love To Give You

Competitive salary

Bonus payable upon team hitting target

Hybrid role 2 days in the office ( Woking )
25 days paid annual leave plus bank holidays
Life assurance & company pension scheme.
Access to our extensive online Learning platform and development opportunities
An employee wellbeing platform.
Access to a salary sacrifice electric car scheme.
IFG rewards for highstreets discounts.
Annual Summer Party with company awards.

Additional Details

IFG are committed to the safeguarding of children and our employees share this commitment. Successful candidates are required to undergo an enhanced DBS check, which we supply the cost for.

We are a committed equal opportunities employer - if you require any assistance for the interview process, please detail within your application. All information is kept confidential and in compliance with GDPR requirements.

Applicants will need to provide a portfolio of work to demonstrate experience. Second stage interviews will include psychometric testing and a skills-based task.