Graphic Designer

Profile

An experienced Graphic Designer with over 35 years' experience specialising in taking the pain away from Bid professionals with their expertise in all things graphic. Specialising in bid submission documents and graphical elements based on client branding ensuring layout and design work hand in hand.

Design for print and digital utilising Adobe Creative Suite (InDesign, Photoshop, Acrobat and Illustrator) and Microsoft (Word, PowerPoint and Excel) is second nature from print sector experience. Our Associate specialises in producing intelligent bid collateral that tells a story in simple to understand Infographics and Iconography to enhance bids and save space where possible.

This associate is extremely innovative and grasps the complexity of every question and produces graphics to highlight the client's suitability. They are flexible in their work taking their time to suit client requirements and totally understands the pressures which bid work brings.
As an added advantage they have developed and created collateral that can be used time and again either within libraries for future use or that can be adapted for use in the clients other marketing activities.

Key Achievements

Recently worked on the £multi-million Network Rail tenders.

Successfully created multi bidders into single branded bid representation.

Bid win-rate over 70%.

Industry experience of over 35 years in graphics and marketing, including Bids, Marketing Consultant, E-Marketing, Web Design.

Created three rebrands in the last 18 months for clients.

APMP Member.

Creating a bid design that was used by a Council in the UK as an example of how bid submissions should be presented including: layout, design, colour, branding, graphics, flow and print. This was shared across their supplier network as a guide on how to submit.

Developed a graphics system that employed a delivery process to ensure graphics were on time, correct quality and size and could be used in libraries for future use.

Can analyse and sense check responses to make sure they answer the question in the best way possible.

Experience

Seventeen years of Limited Company / Self-employed status working with small businesses to €700m turnover companies in the UK.
Worked on bids directly with Bid Directors, Bid Managers, Technical Authors, Bid Managers and Writers. Strong understanding of Bid submission rules around bid document building and content down to size of document for submission.
They have a background of creative problem solving with a creative flair ensuring bids stand out from the competition.