Jacobs is challenging today to reinvent tomorrow by solving the world's most critical problems for thriving cities, resilient environments, mission-critical outcomes, operational advancement, scientific discovery and cutting-edge manufacturing, turning abstract ideas into realities that transform the world for good.
Your impact: Joining Jacobs is more than just a career. We value and invest in our people and communities to foster growth and success. Our inclusive culture embraces diverse perspectives, building collaboration and trust to challenge the norm.
About The Opportunity
Do you want to be at the forefront of driving our company strategy and at the heart of growing our business? Are you passionate about winning work for our teams? Do you enjoy crafting compelling and concise content? Our proposal writers are articulate persuasive writers, with excellent communication skills and work under pressure and in a team environment to meet demanding deadlines.
Within our European Growth & Sales team, we have an immediate requirement for a Proposal Writer to work on some of our region’s largest pursuits and opportunities. Your enthusiasm for working as part of a driven and disciplined team, with a motivation to overcome hurdles and obstacles to find solutions is essential to be successful in Sales Operations.
Key Deliverables
* Develop bespoke content for proposals, ensuring it resonates with an opportunity’s win themes
* Working alongside technical colleagues to understand our key sales messaging and make it compelling and convincing for our clients
* Produce high-quality, easy-to-understand documentation, including bid responses, project descriptions, capability statements, CVs, boilerplate content and other go-to-market documents, appropriate for its intended audience
* Focus on researching and retrieving content from within Jacobs’ internal systems
* Follow established templates, processes and best practices for the design and creation of writing which complies with tender requirements and our corporate standards for readability, consistency, tone, and branding
Requirements
* Ability to deliver high-quality documentation, paying attention to detail
* Ability to learn technical/engineering concepts and make them easily understandable in simple, concise and impactful language
* High attention to detail and an ability to establish and meet deadlines
* A background in a relevant discipline (English Literature/Language, Creative Writing, Journalism, Media)
* Work may be required out of core hours, although we try to keep this to a minimum
Joining Jacobs not only connects you locally but globally. Our values stand on a foundation of safety, integrity, inclusion and belonging. We put people at the heart of our business, and we truly believe that by supporting one another through our culture of caring, we all succeed.
We aim to embed inclusion and belonging in everything we do. We know that if we are inclusive, we’re more connected and creative. We accept people for who they are, and we champion the richness of different perspectives, lived experiences and backgrounds in the workplace, as a source of learning and innovation.
Jacobs is a disability confident employer, and we will interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for a vacancy. We welcome applications from candidates who are seeking flexible working and from those who may not meet all the listed requirements for a role.
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