Willmott Dixon are looking to recruit an Assistant Graphic Designer to join our Construction South business, with offices based in Weybridge and Dartford. This is an entry-level role, ideal for a motivated and creative individual at the beginning of their design career. You will assist in the creation of visually engaging designs that communicate ideas clearly and captivate audiences. Bid submissions are competitive documents used to win construction projects, requiring clear and persuasive visual communication. Working with the Senior Graphic Designer, Proposal Managers and Bid Managers, you will support the creation of high-quality bid layout responses by transforming complex information into clear, consistent visuals that respond to customer and project-specific objectives. You will receive hands-on guidance and mentoring from the Senior Graphic Designer and Proposals team and gain exposure to live bid environments, helping you develop strong foundational skills in layout, visual storytelling and stakeholder collaboration. Reporting to the Senior Graphic Designer, you will be required to manage multiple tasks, work to deadlines and communicate effectively with a wide range of internal stakeholders. You will work within a supportive, fast-paced and collaborative bid environment, following established processes and brand standards while continuing to build confidence and capability in your role. Key Responsibilities: Work collaboratively alongside Proposals Managers, Bid Managers, Senior Graphic Designer and subject matter experts to support bid design and delivery. Assist in the creation of visually engaging bid submissions that reflect agreed themes, strategies and quality standards. Undertake typesetting and editorial layout design of bid content, ensuring clarity consistency, logical flow and readability across all submission documents. Translate written content into supporting graphics, diagrams, charts and infographics that enhance understanding and storytelling. Ensure all design output adheres to brand guidelines and supports both strategic and visual objectives. Maintain and develop a strong library of visual assets, including graphics, photography and icons. Essential and Desirable Criteria Entry-level role: 0-2 years' experience in a design-related role or placement Degree in Graphic Design or equivalent experience Well-rounded design skills with a strong eye for detail, layout, typography and visual hierarchy A portfolio demonstrating design thinking, layout, typography and visual communication skills Proficient in Adobe Creative Cloud (especially InDesign) and Microsoft Office Ability to turn complex information into clear, easily understood graphics Excellent verbal and written communication skills Excellent time management with the ability to manage multiple tasks and stakeholders simultaneously Meticulous attention to detail and commitment to meeting deadlines. Desirable Skills: Basic video editing experience, including Adobe Premiere Pro. Attributes and Behaviours Curiosity and willingness to understand project detail and context Passion for creativity, with the flexibility to adapt to feedback and changing priorities Patience and resilience, able to work under pressure with support from the wider team and contribute positively to multiple projects at once. About Us With over 170 years of rich history, Willmott Dixon's purpose is beyond profit; delivering brilliant buildings, transforming lives, strengthening communities and enhancing the environment so our world is fit for future generations. Ensuring that we add lasting value to the neighbourhoods we work in; our values, people, innovation, partnerships and focus on sustainability has allowed us to build a successful and solid privately owned business where our people can thrive.Willmott Dixon was recognised by The Sunday Times as one of the Top 10 "Big" Companies to Work For in 2025, named among the Times Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality in 2024, and ranked in the Top Five of Europe's 1,000 best workplaces by the Financial Times in 2025. Willmott Dixon is also the first major contractor and developer to win a King's Award for Enterprise in the category of sustainable development.
Apr 17, 2026
Full time
Willmott Dixon are looking to recruit an Assistant Graphic Designer to join our Construction South business, with offices based in Weybridge and Dartford. This is an entry-level role, ideal for a motivated and creative individual at the beginning of their design career. You will assist in the creation of visually engaging designs that communicate ideas clearly and captivate audiences. Bid submissions are competitive documents used to win construction projects, requiring clear and persuasive visual communication. Working with the Senior Graphic Designer, Proposal Managers and Bid Managers, you will support the creation of high-quality bid layout responses by transforming complex information into clear, consistent visuals that respond to customer and project-specific objectives. You will receive hands-on guidance and mentoring from the Senior Graphic Designer and Proposals team and gain exposure to live bid environments, helping you develop strong foundational skills in layout, visual storytelling and stakeholder collaboration. Reporting to the Senior Graphic Designer, you will be required to manage multiple tasks, work to deadlines and communicate effectively with a wide range of internal stakeholders. You will work within a supportive, fast-paced and collaborative bid environment, following established processes and brand standards while continuing to build confidence and capability in your role. Key Responsibilities: Work collaboratively alongside Proposals Managers, Bid Managers, Senior Graphic Designer and subject matter experts to support bid design and delivery. Assist in the creation of visually engaging bid submissions that reflect agreed themes, strategies and quality standards. Undertake typesetting and editorial layout design of bid content, ensuring clarity consistency, logical flow and readability across all submission documents. Translate written content into supporting graphics, diagrams, charts and infographics that enhance understanding and storytelling. Ensure all design output adheres to brand guidelines and supports both strategic and visual objectives. Maintain and develop a strong library of visual assets, including graphics, photography and icons. Essential and Desirable Criteria Entry-level role: 0-2 years' experience in a design-related role or placement Degree in Graphic Design or equivalent experience Well-rounded design skills with a strong eye for detail, layout, typography and visual hierarchy A portfolio demonstrating design thinking, layout, typography and visual communication skills Proficient in Adobe Creative Cloud (especially InDesign) and Microsoft Office Ability to turn complex information into clear, easily understood graphics Excellent verbal and written communication skills Excellent time management with the ability to manage multiple tasks and stakeholders simultaneously Meticulous attention to detail and commitment to meeting deadlines. Desirable Skills: Basic video editing experience, including Adobe Premiere Pro. Attributes and Behaviours Curiosity and willingness to understand project detail and context Passion for creativity, with the flexibility to adapt to feedback and changing priorities Patience and resilience, able to work under pressure with support from the wider team and contribute positively to multiple projects at once. About Us With over 170 years of rich history, Willmott Dixon's purpose is beyond profit; delivering brilliant buildings, transforming lives, strengthening communities and enhancing the environment so our world is fit for future generations. Ensuring that we add lasting value to the neighbourhoods we work in; our values, people, innovation, partnerships and focus on sustainability has allowed us to build a successful and solid privately owned business where our people can thrive.Willmott Dixon was recognised by The Sunday Times as one of the Top 10 "Big" Companies to Work For in 2025, named among the Times Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality in 2024, and ranked in the Top Five of Europe's 1,000 best workplaces by the Financial Times in 2025. Willmott Dixon is also the first major contractor and developer to win a King's Award for Enterprise in the category of sustainable development.
Join Willmott Dixon as a Frameworks Manager and play a key role at the front end of our business by building strong customer relationships, securing exciting project opportunities, and supporting our strategic plan for growth through existing and new frameworks. As one of the top employers in the industry, we're looking for a customer-focused individual with excellent stakeholder management skills, strong communications and adaptive approach to problem solving to provide project and procurement solutions to our existing and targeted customers. If you have an interest in the evolving construction market, this is a fantastic opportunity to join a collaborative forward-thinking team, working closely with Customers, Framework Providers, Business Development and Internal Stakeholders to identify opportunities, shape customer-focused solutions and help drive work-winning success across the region. Responsibilities: Work collaboratively to agree and deliver framework turnover targets Create and secure work-winning opportunities with customers. Develop customer solutions through inception and viability stages. Use market awareness and sector insight to identify opportunities. Develop robust customer relationships to generate long-term repeat business Develop and maintain strong relationships with framework providers Ensure framework compliance and accurate reporting is maintained at all time Work collaboratively with business functions including Business Development, Preconstruction and Operations to ensure new opportunities align with business need and capability. Essential Criteria Proven record of developing and implementing business frameworks Strong presentation and influencing skills with internal and external stakeholders. Excellent verbal and written communication skills to deliver accurate and timely reporting. Disciplined approach to updating management information. Proven track record of creating and developing positive customer relationships. Basic understanding of the construction market and customer landscape. Understanding of market sector trends and insights. Desirable Criteria Degree level education or equivalent. Experience of working in construction or a related sector. In return for your hard work, we offer a competitive package that includes flexible benefits to fit your lifestyle and priorities. This includes an enhanced pension scheme, discounted or full private medical, life assurance, incentive bonus, and a car scheme that will make us a market leader in sustainable company travel. Additional Information At Willmott Dixon, we provide an inclusive and flexible working environment for people to thrive in, and we're happy to support agile working wherever possible. We're a proud member of the Disability Confident Scheme, and with over 170 years of rich history, our purpose goes beyond profit: delivering brilliant buildings, transforming lives, strengthening communities, and enhancing the environment so our world is fit for future generations. If you're ready to take the next step in your career, apply now. About Us With 170 years of rich history, Willmott Dixon's purpose beyond profit is to deliver brilliant buildings, transform lives, strengthen communities, and enhance the environment so our world is fit for future generations. Ensuring that we add lasting value to the neighbourhoods we work in; our values, people, innovation, partnerships and focus on sustainability has allowed us to build a successful and trusted privately owned business where our people can thrive. Willmott Dixon was recognised by The Sunday Times as one of the Top 10 "Big" Companies to Work For in 2025, named among the Times Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality in 2024, and ranked in the Top Five of Europe's 1,000 best workplaces by the Financial Times in 2025. Willmott Dixon is also the first major contractor and developer to win a King's Award for Enterprise in the category of sustainable development.
Apr 08, 2026
Full time
Join Willmott Dixon as a Frameworks Manager and play a key role at the front end of our business by building strong customer relationships, securing exciting project opportunities, and supporting our strategic plan for growth through existing and new frameworks. As one of the top employers in the industry, we're looking for a customer-focused individual with excellent stakeholder management skills, strong communications and adaptive approach to problem solving to provide project and procurement solutions to our existing and targeted customers. If you have an interest in the evolving construction market, this is a fantastic opportunity to join a collaborative forward-thinking team, working closely with Customers, Framework Providers, Business Development and Internal Stakeholders to identify opportunities, shape customer-focused solutions and help drive work-winning success across the region. Responsibilities: Work collaboratively to agree and deliver framework turnover targets Create and secure work-winning opportunities with customers. Develop customer solutions through inception and viability stages. Use market awareness and sector insight to identify opportunities. Develop robust customer relationships to generate long-term repeat business Develop and maintain strong relationships with framework providers Ensure framework compliance and accurate reporting is maintained at all time Work collaboratively with business functions including Business Development, Preconstruction and Operations to ensure new opportunities align with business need and capability. Essential Criteria Proven record of developing and implementing business frameworks Strong presentation and influencing skills with internal and external stakeholders. Excellent verbal and written communication skills to deliver accurate and timely reporting. Disciplined approach to updating management information. Proven track record of creating and developing positive customer relationships. Basic understanding of the construction market and customer landscape. Understanding of market sector trends and insights. Desirable Criteria Degree level education or equivalent. Experience of working in construction or a related sector. In return for your hard work, we offer a competitive package that includes flexible benefits to fit your lifestyle and priorities. This includes an enhanced pension scheme, discounted or full private medical, life assurance, incentive bonus, and a car scheme that will make us a market leader in sustainable company travel. Additional Information At Willmott Dixon, we provide an inclusive and flexible working environment for people to thrive in, and we're happy to support agile working wherever possible. We're a proud member of the Disability Confident Scheme, and with over 170 years of rich history, our purpose goes beyond profit: delivering brilliant buildings, transforming lives, strengthening communities, and enhancing the environment so our world is fit for future generations. If you're ready to take the next step in your career, apply now. About Us With 170 years of rich history, Willmott Dixon's purpose beyond profit is to deliver brilliant buildings, transform lives, strengthen communities, and enhance the environment so our world is fit for future generations. Ensuring that we add lasting value to the neighbourhoods we work in; our values, people, innovation, partnerships and focus on sustainability has allowed us to build a successful and trusted privately owned business where our people can thrive. Willmott Dixon was recognised by The Sunday Times as one of the Top 10 "Big" Companies to Work For in 2025, named among the Times Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality in 2024, and ranked in the Top Five of Europe's 1,000 best workplaces by the Financial Times in 2025. Willmott Dixon is also the first major contractor and developer to win a King's Award for Enterprise in the category of sustainable development.
Willmott Dixon Construction are looking for a Proposals Manager to join our Wales & West regional team in our Bristol office. The main role of a Proposals Manager at Willmott Dixon is to manage the quality of submissions and actively work with our Project Managers to develop the quality of bids. You will be able to assess technical bid requirements and lead the bid teams to develop a winning solution. You will ensure the formal bid process is followed, providing recommendations for continuous improvement. Through your writing, reviewing and editing of drafts you will ensure our submissions persuasively convey our offer to the customer by communicating key win themes within our responses, ensuring we score highly against the evaluation criteria. Working with subject matter experts, you will conceptualise and create visual elements to help tell the story, whilst also contributing to the 'look and the feel' of our offering. With a strong awareness of bidding best practice, you will also provide guidance and support to less experienced staff and those from other areas of the business. You'll also support creation of clear and effective customer presentations and provide creative ideas and initiatives for bids. Key Responsibilities Contribute to and create our bid win plan, then consistently communicate this to the team throughout so that the bid is developed in line with the strategy. You will: Understand the entire bid submission and lead our approach to align with the 'win plan.' Revisit the strategy when needed. Be accountable for everything that goes into the bid. Define and shape the visual presentation of the submission. Support the prepositioning phase by proactively developing early solution concepts that address key customers drivers identified during business development engagements. Host lessons learnt workshops after the bid is submitted to capture insight, identify areas for improvement and inform future opportunities Make sure all the written content of the bid is clear and compelling by: Owning individual answers (planning and scripting). Briefing other bid writing contributors. Checking the quality of other contributors' work and providing feedback and/or intervening. Signing off all the written content before the Director peer review. Essential and Desirable Criteria You will ideally have some experience as a Proposal Manager, Submissions Manager, Bid Manager, Tender Manager, or similar role in the construction industry. You will be able to lead the creation of our written responses to achieve high quality, winning bids/submissions that meet the requirements and expectations of our customers. You will have good experience of writing and editing tender submissions. Knowledge and experience of the Adobe Suite, particularly InDesign is desirable, but full training will be provided if required. Experience of leading answer plan sessions, win theme workshops and managing the tender review process. Experience of bid writing and bid editing, creating compelling and persuasive responses. Experience of hosting lessons learnt workshops after bid submissions to capture insight, identify areas for improvement and inform future opportunities. You'll also have experience supporting the prepositioning phase in previous bids. Meticulous organisational skills. Experience of using Microsoft Office. Use of Adobe InDesign and Photoshop desirable. UKAPMP membership and certified desirable. Additional Information Are you an innovator, are you curious? We are not afraid to think big and embrace innovative new ideas to make sure we deliver a better, stronger, and more personal offer and exceed our customers' expectations.Willmott Dixon embraces diversity in the workplace and will consider flexible and agile working. We are a disability confident employer. About Us With over 170 years of rich history, Willmott Dixon's purpose is beyond profit; delivering brilliant buildings, transforming lives, strengthening communities and enhancing the environment so our world is fit for future generations. Ensuring that we add lasting value to the neighbourhoods we work in; our values, people, innovation, partnerships and focus on sustainability has allowed us to build a successful and solid privately owned business where our people can thrive. Willmott Dixon was recognised by The Sunday Times as one of the Top 10 "Big" Companies to Work For in 2025, named among the Times Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality in 2024, and ranked in the Top Five of Europe's 1,000 best workplaces by the Financial Times in 2025. Willmott Dixon is also the first major contractor and developer to win a King's Award for Enterprise in the category of sustainable development Click to learn more about our award-winning Wales and West Construction team!
Apr 01, 2026
Full time
Willmott Dixon Construction are looking for a Proposals Manager to join our Wales & West regional team in our Bristol office. The main role of a Proposals Manager at Willmott Dixon is to manage the quality of submissions and actively work with our Project Managers to develop the quality of bids. You will be able to assess technical bid requirements and lead the bid teams to develop a winning solution. You will ensure the formal bid process is followed, providing recommendations for continuous improvement. Through your writing, reviewing and editing of drafts you will ensure our submissions persuasively convey our offer to the customer by communicating key win themes within our responses, ensuring we score highly against the evaluation criteria. Working with subject matter experts, you will conceptualise and create visual elements to help tell the story, whilst also contributing to the 'look and the feel' of our offering. With a strong awareness of bidding best practice, you will also provide guidance and support to less experienced staff and those from other areas of the business. You'll also support creation of clear and effective customer presentations and provide creative ideas and initiatives for bids. Key Responsibilities Contribute to and create our bid win plan, then consistently communicate this to the team throughout so that the bid is developed in line with the strategy. You will: Understand the entire bid submission and lead our approach to align with the 'win plan.' Revisit the strategy when needed. Be accountable for everything that goes into the bid. Define and shape the visual presentation of the submission. Support the prepositioning phase by proactively developing early solution concepts that address key customers drivers identified during business development engagements. Host lessons learnt workshops after the bid is submitted to capture insight, identify areas for improvement and inform future opportunities Make sure all the written content of the bid is clear and compelling by: Owning individual answers (planning and scripting). Briefing other bid writing contributors. Checking the quality of other contributors' work and providing feedback and/or intervening. Signing off all the written content before the Director peer review. Essential and Desirable Criteria You will ideally have some experience as a Proposal Manager, Submissions Manager, Bid Manager, Tender Manager, or similar role in the construction industry. You will be able to lead the creation of our written responses to achieve high quality, winning bids/submissions that meet the requirements and expectations of our customers. You will have good experience of writing and editing tender submissions. Knowledge and experience of the Adobe Suite, particularly InDesign is desirable, but full training will be provided if required. Experience of leading answer plan sessions, win theme workshops and managing the tender review process. Experience of bid writing and bid editing, creating compelling and persuasive responses. Experience of hosting lessons learnt workshops after bid submissions to capture insight, identify areas for improvement and inform future opportunities. You'll also have experience supporting the prepositioning phase in previous bids. Meticulous organisational skills. Experience of using Microsoft Office. Use of Adobe InDesign and Photoshop desirable. UKAPMP membership and certified desirable. Additional Information Are you an innovator, are you curious? We are not afraid to think big and embrace innovative new ideas to make sure we deliver a better, stronger, and more personal offer and exceed our customers' expectations.Willmott Dixon embraces diversity in the workplace and will consider flexible and agile working. We are a disability confident employer. About Us With over 170 years of rich history, Willmott Dixon's purpose is beyond profit; delivering brilliant buildings, transforming lives, strengthening communities and enhancing the environment so our world is fit for future generations. Ensuring that we add lasting value to the neighbourhoods we work in; our values, people, innovation, partnerships and focus on sustainability has allowed us to build a successful and solid privately owned business where our people can thrive. Willmott Dixon was recognised by The Sunday Times as one of the Top 10 "Big" Companies to Work For in 2025, named among the Times Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality in 2024, and ranked in the Top Five of Europe's 1,000 best workplaces by the Financial Times in 2025. Willmott Dixon is also the first major contractor and developer to win a King's Award for Enterprise in the category of sustainable development Click to learn more about our award-winning Wales and West Construction team!
