Proposal Coordinator

At PwC, our people in brand management, marketing and sales focus on collaboration to develop and execute strategic sales and marketing initiatives. These individuals focus on driving revenue growth, promoting the Firm's services, enhancing brand visibility, and capturing new business opportunities. They utilise market research, digital marketing, creative campaigns, and effective sales strategies to engage clients, enhance the firm's brand and market presence, and achieve organisational targets. Those in proposal strategy at PwC will effectively communicate ideas, solutions and value propositions in a written format to potential clients or stakeholders. Working in this area, you will support the largest, most strategic opportunities at current or prospective clients by providing end-to-end professional pursuit coaching, pursuit and BXT (Business, Experience, Technology) sales methodology, professional pursuit coaching, bid management, bid evaluation and copy-editing support and advice.

Driven by curiosity, you are a reliable, contributing member of a team. In our fast-paced environment, you are expected to adapt to working with a variety of clients and team members, each presenting varying challenges and scope. Every experience is an opportunity to learn and grow. You are expected to take ownership and consistently deliver quality work that drives value for our clients and success as a team. As you navigate through the Firm, you build a brand for yourself, opening doors to more opportunities.

Skills

Examples of the skills, knowledge, and experiences you need to lead and deliver value at this level include but are not limited to:

• Apply a learning mindset and take ownership for your own development.
• Appreciate diverse perspectives, needs, and feelings of others.
• Adopt habits to sustain high performance and develop your potential.
• Actively listen, ask questions to check understanding, and clearly express ideas.
• Seek, reflect, act on, and give feedback.
• Gather information from a range of sources to analyse facts and discern patterns.
• Commit to understanding how the business works and building commercial awareness.
• Learn and apply professional and technical standards (e.g. refer to specific PwC tax and audit guidance), uphold the Firm's code of conduct and independence requirements.
  
  

Job Overview

The Proposal Coordinator will assist members of various PwC territory firms with the development and design of commercial/business proposals, primarily in MS Word/PowerPoint or Google Doc/Slides. The Coordinator will need to follow instructions and/or interpret the particular needs of the client according to the training and information provided, and closely follow the Firm’s brand guidelines and resources. They should also have the ability to understand RFx requirements and make sure that the proposal fulfills all of those requirements. The position will support all forms of proposal development. Understanding of pursuit cycle, strong writing, proofreading and communication skills, as well as exceptional MS Office skills, particularly Word and PowerPoint, and familiarity with Adobe Acrobat applications, as well as a very advanced knowledge of English are critical to the position.

Activities To Be Performed

• Assist proposal managers/engagement teams with all tasks associated with preparing proposal documents and any other document related to the pursuit cycle. Review all proposal instructions; create proposal templates, populate proposal templates with content from proposal library; create and recreate graphics, and provide basic proposal formatting (primarily in MS Word and PowerPoint) for all draft deliverables – engage/work closely with designers and writers to enhance proposal
• Project manage pursuit lifecycle
• Assist with the scheduling of internal assignments and work flow through project management tool, maintain real-time development status schedule of all proposal text, graphics, formatting and revision requests
• Establish the electronic file structure in client authorized tools
  
  

Requirements

Post graduate

• Minimum 2-3 years of competitive business proposal experience
• Strong command of English language
• Good verbal and written communication skills (Good interpersonal skills and ability to build rapport) Preferable - experience in working/interacting with people from multiple geographies
• Ability to visualize and co-ordinate with Designers
• Eye for detail; ability to identify and suggest areas of improvement
• Capable of working both independently and in a team
• Ability to multi-task and constantly reprioritize
• Advanced proofreading skills (English)
• Highly skilled at using MS Office Applications with emphasis on macros, styles, fields, templates
• Familiarity with Google Apps and Drive, SharePoint and InDesign are considered assets
• Ability to work remotely (home office) and flex work hours to be available for global clients.
• Project Management training and/or Association of Proposal Management Professionals training a bonus.
• Ability to co-ordinate and manage projects involving multiple stakeholders
• Analytical skills; ability to work with ambiguous instructions