Solution Designer

VINCI Facilities Limited; Watford; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading Facilities Management provider in Watford seeks a Solution Designer to lead and develop winning tender solutions aligned with the organisation's offerings. This role involves collaboration, ownership of the solution design process, and using innovative methodologies to enhance service models. The successful candidate will possess strong experience in solution design, excellent stakeholder management skills, and relevant qualifications in engineering or facilities management. Competitive salary and benefits offered.

Benefits

26 days holiday plus bank holidays

Generous pension contribution

Additional training and development

Life assurance

Qualifications

• Proven experience in solution design within Facilities Management.
• Strong understanding of hard, soft services and TFM delivery models.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Ability to analyse technical and commercial impacts.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office tools (Excel, Word, Power BI).
• Innovative mindset with a focus on continuous improvement.
• Professional membership such as RICS or CIOB.
• Degree-level qualification in engineering or facilities management.

Responsibilities

• Lead the solution design process for bids.
• Collaborate with teams to ensure robust and competitive solutions.
• Own the entire operational solution from draft to handover.
• Produce visual representations of models and structures.
• Identify risks and ensure compliance with legislation.
• Lead pricing strategies aligned with solution design.
• Prepare compelling responses for RFI, ITT, and RFP documents.
• Maintain and improve templates and processes.

Skills

Solution design experience

Stakeholder management

Analytical skills

Proficient in Microsoft Office tools

Innovative mindset

Education

Degree in engineering or facilities management

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Word

Power BI

Job description

Location: Watford

Contract Type: Permanent

Hours: Full Time - 40 hours - Monday to Friday

Creating and maintaining great places to live and work delivered by excellent people who care…

Purpose of Role

Join our FM Winning Work Team (WWT) as a Solution Designer, where you will play a pivotal role in shaping the success of our bids. You will lead the development of operational solutions that are technically excellent, commercially viable, and compelling to prospective clients. Leveraging advanced digital tools and technology, you will integrate data insights and operational best practices to create efficient, scalable service models that meet client needs and drive long‑term success.

Job Description

The role will report into the Head of Commercial and Estimating. As a key member of the WWT you will drive the development of competitive, sustainable and compelling tender solutions to support the delivery of our market‑leading proposals and value propositions.

Responsibilities

• Lead the solution design process to develop winning propositions aligned with VINCI Facilities’ offering, for hard, soft and TFM tenders.
• Collaborate closely with Proposals Managers, Estimators, SMEs, and Business Unit leads to ensure solutions are robust and competitive.
• Take ownership of the entire operational solution within the tender, from initial draft to final handover.
• Produce visual representations of delivery models and organisational structures.
• Identify risks and mitigations within proposed solutions and ensure compliance with legislation and industry standards (e.g., SFG20, ACOPs, HTML, BICSc.).
• Lead pricing strategies and supply chain alignment with solution design.
• Lead the preparation of compelling delivery methodology responses to RFI, ITT, and RFP documents, including evidence‑based content.
• Maintain and improve templates, tools, and processes for solution design.
• Leverage emerging technologies and industry best practices to enhance solutions.

Essential Qualifications/Skills

• Proven experience in solution design within Facilities Management.
• Strong understanding of hard, soft services and TFM delivery models.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Ability to analyse technical and commercial impacts, identify risks, and propose mitigations.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office tools (Excel, Word, Power BI) and digital platforms.
• Innovative mindset with a focus on continuous improvement and value creation.
• Professional membership such as RICS, CIOB, or other relevant industry bodies.
• Degree‑level qualification in engineering, facilities management, or other relevant discipline (or equivalent experience).

In return for your hard work we offer additional training and development, 26 days holiday (+ bank holidays), generous pension contribution, life assurance and much more.

We are VINCI Facilities – experts in the built environment.

VINCI Facilities is a Facilities Management and Building Solutions provider, delivering cost‑effective and sustainable bespoke solutions to customers in the public and private sectors.

We are committed to working towards a lower carbon society, focusing on sustainable and innovative methods to exceed our partners' goals and add value for all stakeholders – and we were named the top‑ranked FM service provider in the Sustainable FM Index for 2020.

We put our people first. Always working as a team and collaborating from start to finish.

We are the trusted expert in the built environment because we listen to our team and create a workplace that maximises their potential.

Fairness, Inclusion and Respect (FIR) at VINCI Facilities is about recognising and celebrating each other's differences and what they bring to the team. Harnessing this diversity and applying the experiences, abilities and unique qualities of individuals will enhance our business; therefore, we commit to equity of opportunity and fair treatment of all current and potential employees and encourage job applications from all.

Should you require any reasonable adjustments to be made as part of the application process please contact us directly.

VINCI recognises the importance of helping our employees balance their work and home life by offering flexible working arrangements across many of our roles which include working from home to enable employees to balance their working life with other priorities.