Roles and responsibilities
- Understand market dynamics, including client requirements, business models, key players, competition and our value proposition across segments
- Understand business problems across our industries and functions
- Manage solution design independently with a sound proposal that addresses the client’s problems
- Convey the solution design through a compelling visual narrative and take complete ownership of the proposal
- Independent in all aspects related to decision-making, including asking the right questions to clients/sales folks to build the optimal solution
- Proactively communicates with internal and external stakeholders (including independently liaising with all internal stakeholders and SMEs)
- Ensure that the business development support material is kept current and that it conveys our value proposition and strong capabilities in the best possible manner
- Can work on short turnaround proposals and ensures all internal and external client timelines are met
- Follows all organisational policies and values in spirit.
Ideal Candidate
- 3-6 years of total experience, with a minimum of 2 years of working on proposals and RFPs for North American, APAC and/or European markets
- Strong understanding of business in general and in-depth understanding of business functions such as procurement and supply chain, strategy, marketing, and pricing and promotions
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, and the comfort and confidence of dealing with VP+ level executives in the US and Europe (internal and external stakeholders)
- Ability to don the ‘solution hat’ and look at the big picture
- Strong ability to convey the solution through a compelling story
- Perseverant and collaborative, able to prioritize and multi-task, and dynamic/energetic
- Should be good at organizing information