Proposal Creation - Associate

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 and preparing a Proposal Development Plan listing proposal components / sections and 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 buyers 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
• 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 of 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 for example 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