Executive/AM - Communications & Pursuit Strategist

Communications and Pursuit Strategist (CaPS) - Executive or AM Level

About the Team :

Pursuits Team will support the region's - high value strategic pursuits and core opportunities . The Pursuit Center is aligned to the broader program within the - Markets- function, focused on providing value-add to our partners across all service lines and market segments, helping create compelling pursuit strategies and competitive differentiation in an innovative and creative manner, targeted towards winning high value deals and offering complete ownership towards the overall pursuit lifecycle.

The Pursuit Team is seeking an experienced business development/marketing communications professional to work within the role of a Communications and Pursuit Strategist (CaPS). An overall understanding of high-quality client communication and creative business writing is essential. Project management skills will be an added advantage.

Essential Functions of the Job :

- Strategic pursuit communications and opportunity management

- Actively participate in developing proposal strategy, authoring proposals, and conduct research required to create appropriate and persuasive proposal response

- Actively participate in and contribute at all stages of proposal process and ensure adherence to process and firm guidelines

- Create compelling creative content, focused towards highlighting value proposition, competitive positioning and differentiation and USP in order to present the company on a winning board

- Provide inputs to discussions around pursuit strategy and directly work on client service opportunities without a BDE, for multiple pursuits simultaneously

- Write standardized or customized proposals and convey a unique proposal strategy for multiple clients

- Client relationships

- Build and leverage relationships with industry/practice leaders to achieve business goals.

- May specialize in few specific industries or functional areas

- Administration

- Responsible for compliance with firm's independence policy and quality measures as it relates to proposals and business opportunities

- Actively support best pursuit practice initiatives, such as FAQ, boilerplate responses

- Coordinate with the design team to create brand compliant and visually impactful proposals and in some cases create differently packaged proposals for key clients

Job Requirements :

Education : Bachelor's degree or equivalent preferably in field such as English, Sales, Marketing or Journalism

Experience :

- Approximately 4-8 years of relevant experience in business development, creative business writing, marketing and project management. Communications or proposal writing experience is preferred.

Knowledge and Skills Required :

- Excellent English writing and communication skills and preferably demonstrated project management

- High attention to detail and ability to manage multiple work-streams (essential)

- Marketing Communications and/or Business Development experience (considered as an asset)