Salary
💰 $56,000 - $60,000 per year
About the role
- Leads cross-functional processes, stakeholders, and timelines to ensure contract proposals and/or budget modifications are completed accurately throughout the project lifecycle
- Drives client delivery of complex, high value proposals and/or contract modifications for clinical trials under tight client deadlines
- Works on multiple projects simultaneously with a cross-functional international team in multiple time zones
- Leads the proposal bid and budget negotiation process, synthesizing detailed client requirements with internal data to determine resource and budget allocations for project plans and study strategies
- Reviews information provided via RFPs and/or requests for contract modifications to ensure adequate information for budget preparation
- Leads strategy calls to discuss customer requirements and budget strategy development and/or budget modifications
- Works within proprietary bidding systems and budget tools to ensure accurate bidding and timely data mapping in client budget grid templates
- Finalizes client-facing documents after securing internal department approvals, performing quality control edits to ensure accuracy, proper data formatting, and compliance
- Ensures proposals concisely and accurately reflect strategy discussions, meet client needs, offer consistent messaging, include relevant differentiators, and convey value proposition
- Develops and maintains positive client relationships through the budget negotiation process, securing client agreement and execution of contracts in a timely manner
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent and relevant formal academic / vocational qualification
- Previous experience comparable to 0-2 years
- In some cases, an equivalency consisting of a combination of appropriate education, training and/or directly related experience will be considered sufficient
- Ability to function as an effective and respected partner to clients
- Strong analytical and quantitative skills
- Confidence to handle sensitive information and make sound recommendations
- Ability to juggle multiple tasks while still delivering high quality results
- Strong written and oral communication skills
- Strong organizational and project administration skills
- High level of proficiency in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint for analysis and presentation of data
- Solid understanding of financial principles and best practices