Sr. Proposal Consultant

Senior Proposal Consultant

ADP is hiring a Senior Proposal Consultant within its Commercial Operations Center of Excellence. The person in this role will partner with sales and internal team members to develop high-quality proposals that are responsive, accurate, concise, and strategic. They will leverage our content database to complete proposal responses supporting multiple business units while ensuring all deadlines are met. Senior proposal consultants lead complex sales projects while soliciting input from multiple internal partners and will also serve as subject matter expert for the team while providing support to proposal consultants. They will help to enhance and create modern content for our library. They will form effective business relationships with a variety of internal clients while leveraging established best practices. We are in search of team members who are eager to grow, intellectually curious, can work on multiple projects simultaneously and have a true growth mindset.

Responsibilities:

• Develop/maintain good working knowledge of current service capabilities and future direction.
• Provide initial drafts of RFx (RFP, RFI, RFQ, etc.) responses using the designated software (Responsive).
• Manage version control, generating additional or revised drafts of RFx responses by merging information delivered by Product, Operations and Sales.
• Take project management approach to each unique response, to track changes and delays, and ensure all stakeholders are involved throughout the process.
• Provide guidance and assistance to team members while sharing expertise.
• Develop customized executive summaries and cover letters to align with sales messaging.
• Provide final edit by reviewing completed documents to ensure consistency and accuracy in tone/voice of response.
• Leverage best practices in project management while prioritizing effectively.
• Form effective business relationships with a variety of internal clients.

Qualifications Required:

• A college degree is nice to have but is not required. What is more important is having the skills to do the job. Other forms of acceptable experience include:
• Eight (8) years' experience in technical, proposal or business writing.
• Prior experience supporting proposals or providing sales support

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with RFx response software such as Responsive, preferred.
• Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines.
• Strong oral, written, and interpersonal communication skills.
• Understand and document moderately complex technical material.
• Demonstrate strong writing skills (clean, concise, accurate text).
• Balance two critical aspects of developing user information: thorough product understanding and technical expertise versus audience information needs.
• Able to focus content to the appropriate audience.