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Cary, North Carolina, United States

Cary, North Carolina, United States

I was promoted as one of the company’s only legacy people to lead end-to-end RFP proposal development process for 45-50 contracts, driving competitive win strategies based on landscape analysis and in adherence with business-specific and company-wide pricing processes. In this capacity, I fostered a centralized tracking and template system to ensure consistency, continuity, and adherence to the company’s standards. • Ensured the quality, accuracy, and timeliness of the strategic development, revision, and submission of proposals, budgets, and contracts, driving the alignment with thoroughly reviewed requirements, priorities, and deadlines.• Maintained the company’s comprehensive library of templates.• Negotiate new contracts, demonstrating accountability and strong leadership skills.• Served as the point of contact for all client service change of order requests, implementing customized action plans and providing crucial insights into effective post-award support. • Coordinated and collaborate across cross-functional teams, internal and external stakeholders, experts and contractors on all levels.• Enhanced customer experience through a customized approach, consistent process improvements, and streamlining to further shorten response time.

Moving into a more autonomous role of spearheading all aspects of proposal creation, revision, submission, and tracking, I managed both the company’s standard and customizable proposal text as well as customer-specific proposal content. In addition, I collaborated directly with the manager to build and develop a team on adequate utilization of key operational tools.• Managed 10-15 monthly proposal submissions, steadying the department’s activities during the company’s turbulent times.• Maintained an internal customer-facing text database, and centralized library of business development, MSA, mNDA, and startup agreement templates, contracts, presentations, whitepapers, scope-of-work and budget tools.• Coordinated and supported pricing efforts to facilitate necessary change orders in a timely manner.• Collaborated directly with the Business Development and Compliance teams, ensuring the accuracy and compliance of the proposals.• Mentored new team members on the proper RFP and lead generation, proposal development, tracking, discounting, and approving processes.• Mastered the company’s CRM tools and leveraged data-driven insights to provide regular reporting and maintain ongoing communication with the company’s leadership.

Cary, North Carolina, United States

Here, I helped establish and develop the startup’s dedicated RFP and proposal department, and leveraged a multitude of business development, administrative, communication, and writing expertise to ensure continuous operations during the pandemic-induced business surge, demonstrating a capacity to navigate variation in work volume, and remain calm under pressure. • Pivoted the company from the initial procurement and pricing to a more sustainable proposal and RFP model.• Achieved quick turnover while maintaining the highest quality and adherence to sensitive timelines.• Drafted key proposal elements in alignment with all RFP and technical requirements, as well as evaluation criteria.

Telecommute

Perform quality assurance tasks:-Test programmed, on-line surveys against original specifications to ensureperfect quality.-Proof-read and edit reports for grammar, spelling, and clarity.-Validate data in reports with source data.-Support Project Directors in various aspects, managing multiple taskssimultaneously. Organization and teamwork is critical.-Assist in report formatting using PowerPoint.-Generate and format graphs in Excel and PowerPoint.-Assist in coding, data entry, and secondary research such as Websearching.

Greater St. Louis Area

Created business development proposals, final reports, and presentations for pharmaceutical industry clients. Functioned as a liaison between consultants and clients for reports. Organized background resources and document support for product and company profile and assessment. Supported over 20+ individuals within oncology, epidemiology, market research, and scientific / technical teams.

Birmingham, Mi

Facilitated instructions for team’s day-to-day operations. Fostered relationship between trade reconciliation team and operations management. Orchestrated team unity within seven-person department. Utilized database management skills for financial trading purposes.