Focussing on the client and aligning us to them.
Whilst I worked on internal work within ENGIE, as with Equans and VIVO - the majority of my focus within the company was working as a bid designer, as that's where the design team was seated.
This involved working with bid managers for on both long, high value bids and short, strategically important ones. The nature of the work meant deadlines were a constant factor, often we had to prepare as much as possible in advance because we'd only have a couple of days to a week in order to translate the approved content from Word into out InDesign document. Naturally this meant prioritisation of resource was a constant consideration and understanding which projects required a completely unique look and feel versus which would be fine with a branded word document was essential.
I worked on numerous bids, some worth hundreds of millions to the company and strived to balance the needs of the bid managers (who were often space or word count limited) and creating a readable, engaging document. In one example I managed the design aspects for a bid which was at the time the largest single bid the company had and was up for an extension. It required a completely bespoke brand along with contacting external designers for things we couldn't do in-house, such as the creation of a micro-site and ensuring brand consistency between all assets which were going for the client.
Whilst the role wasn't without it's frustrations, as often come with time-limited roles, it was always engaging to be working on new projects and balancing the client brand with our own.
