Associate - Proposal Creation

Associate – Proposal Creation Team

Position Summary

The Sales Excellence's Proposal Creation Team Associate works as a member of Sales Excellence team in the Grant Thornton US Knowledge & Capability Center (GTKCC). The Sales Excellence team is Grant Thornton US’ extended center of excellence for sales support and pursuit management in GTKCC where strategy, innovation and creativity are driven into all proposals, sales collaterals and pursuit research activities across all industries and functions. The Proposal Creation Team Associate is responsible for developing winning sales documents through research, strategic messaging, and project management as well as contributes to content research/writing.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Develop proposals, presentation decks, company/client research and placemats for pursuits across Audit, Tax and Advisory functions
• Works closely with the Partners / Directors to provide proposal support required for opportunities
• Evaluating & preparing a Proposal Development Plan listing proposal components / sections & developing proposal outline and proposal schedule
• Maintains quality results by using templates following proposal-writing standards including readability, consistency, and tone
• Identify winning strategies by understanding the buyer’s needs, challenge the status quo and create proposals that are customized and tailored to the target audience
• Writing/rewriting proposal inserts and creating reusable proposal content from existing material inputs.
• Responsible for all Grant Thornton compliance adherence and T&Cs
• Play a role in helping facilitate a high level of collaboration between multiple stakeholders within the marketing and sales organization
• Ensure internal and external project deadlines are met
• Participate and play a supportive role in regular meetings to share best practices, information, problem solving, etc., with other team members.

Skills

• MBA with minimum 2 years of relevant experience in proposal and content management
• Non-MBA with minimum 4 years relevant experience
• Excellent communication skills and command of the English language, including excellent grammar, sentence structure, editing and proofreading skills
• Sound skill with Microsoft applications (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Publisher)
• Understanding and knowledge of accounting profession service offerings a huge plus
• Ability to learn Grant Thornton LLP brand standards and content management system
• Ability to understand relevance of information, ability to synthesize and summarize information