Magdalena Edwards Email & Phone Number

London, Gb

London, Gb

San Francisco, California, Us

Leading the EMEA Proposal Team and helping to further scale the RFx Program globally. Reporting to me directly going forward. Reporting to the VP of Global Public Sector Operations. Working closely with Sales Leadership to identify needs, monitor trends, and help to further build out and streamline our bid management best practices and operations in EMEA and globally.

San Francisco, California, Us

Responsible for preserving the integrity of the RFx Program. Operating within industry best practices unique to Public Sector. Working with the RFx Program Leadership to create and refine global policies and processes. Helping the business capture ACV through high quality, customer centric responses. Operating in line with Bid Management industry standards.• Identifying, developing, and sharing global best practices, optimising, and streamlining input from Sales, Technical, and various SME teams to eliminate duplicate efforts and introduce clearly defined ownership of deliverables • Managing the full Bid/ RFx/ Proposal life cycle including T&Cs assessment, resource assignment, kick-off meetings, SME identification, task allocation, alignment with RACI matrix, escalations, response creation and submission• Creating and implementing Bid/ RFx/ ITT Project Plans, drafting concise, tailored, and compelling responses, coordinating work throughout the process, and leading the tenders to successful outcomes• Identifying and bridging the knowledge gaps within the global RFx team to ensure quality and consistency• Cultivating positive working relationship and successfully collaborating with stakeholders at all levels locally and globally• Developing QAQC Process for the RFx Program to ensure quality, consistency, and identify growth and training opportunities for the team

San Francisco, California, Us

Las Vegas, Nv, Us

Primary Proposal Lead in EMEA overseeing resources in the UK and Brazil. • Stakeholder management across an international remit and within a complex business matrix• Collaborating closely with globally dispersed Leadership teams (Directors, VPs, GMs and C-Suite), Sales Representatives, Customer Success Managers, Support Engineers, Solution Architects and various SMEs• Managing full Proposal life-cycle including solicited and unsolicited Tenders, scheduling kick-off meetings, ensuring resource and task allocation, developing and submitting responses• Developing global best practices, optimising, and streamlining input from SMEs across the business • Developing proposal processes and educating the EMEA revenue team on effective collaboration and project management to improve operational efficiencies and ensure scalability• Working closely with sales to produce roadmap recommendations• Writing and managing documents across a host of third-party enterprise software support services, using in-house tools and resources to source and create new content to address business needs • Researching, writing, and editing documents to meet the specific needs of each customer and enhance content library• Reviewing and providing feedback on documents prepared by the Proposal, Technical and Sales teams to ensure high-quality, accurate content is presented internally and externally• Leveraging APMP best practices to ensure compliance with RFx stipulations and submission deadlines, and complete the RFP/ RFI/ ITT responses in line with the company's vision and messaging• Managing Public Sector procurement and frameworks

New York, Ny, Us

Reported directly to the European Head of Sales. Responsible for management of internal reviews, risk identification projects, and solution development.Proactively created and maintained content used in response to RFPs including company, benchmark, and services content. Prepared reports and delivered regular review presentations to external stakeholders up to C-level.• Collaborating with the Product Development team on the improvement of service offerings to address unmet client needs • Developing creative solutions to complex data problems and creating data mapping, flows and feed management in collaboration with clients, consultants, Support, Implementation, and Legal teams• Conducting regular client reviews, nurturing existing relationships, building a strong understanding of client business to determine how best to provide support and address their specific requirements• Preparing reports based on client analytics, low usage, geographical overview, high-cost data, and industry trends • Presenting Business Intelligence findings at cross-department meetings focused on competitor displacement projects• Maintaining strong product awareness and excellent working relationships to enable upselling to existing clients, generating new business and renegotiating contracts• Gathering customer feedback and analysing client data to produce MI reports, identify opportunities to grow business and meet client needs• Creating high quality content for use in official documents• Sourcing and responding to RFPs and RFIs, and preparing proposals• Building and maintaining strong working relationships with software partners

New York, Ny, Us

Bloomberg L.P. is a financial software, data, and media company, my responsibilities included:- Developing and managing in depth relationships with 75 major clients- Nurturing a detailed understanding of client needs in order to provide advice and guidance regarding business efficiency and potential alternatives. Collaborating with other teams- Assisting clients in managing change between the Current and New Commercial Models- Identifying growth and development opportunities to provide stronger client focus- Conducting monthly and quarterly revenue and usage analyses for Business and CFO Teams- Producing reports and recommendations for Data License Sales teams on premium products

New York, Ny, Us

My responsibilities included:- Using in depth Bloomberg system and product knowledge to complete pre-sales projects- Working closely with other teams on competitor displacement projects- Providing direct web based support to clients regarding queries- Developing and delivering Request Builder and other product training to clients- Analysing client product feedback, identifying strengths and development areas

New York, Ny, Us

My responsibilities included: - Assist Terminal clients with any data, products and field related queries- Help clients understand the various Terminal functions and analytics- Manage customer relations and provide client focused responses ensuring that where the question cannot be handled by the GDA team, the query is directed to the relevant Data team and handled appropriately and in a time-efficient way- Act as an intermediary between the general Analytics department and the Global Data departments

New York, Ny, Us

My responsibilities included: - Initiate and develop the Holdings and Portfolio department within Bloomberg in Europe- Research, network and build relationships with exchanges, reporting organisations and independent sources in Europe, Africa and the Middle East in order to establish and expand the holdings and portfolio data coverage on the Bloomberg system- Liaise with clients in order to gain feedback on the depth of the information required- Utilise client feedback in discussions with the Business and R&D teams in order to create better functions and product offering to our customers

New York, Ny, Us

My responsibilities included: - Procure funds documents and maintain the Bloomberg Funds database- Develop and maintain relationships with Fund Managers and Fund Companies- Manage the European Funds team and work closely with my counterparts in Asia and the United States to ensure consistent global operations- Attend conferences to highlight Bloomberg’s growing coverage of Hedge Funds

Electives: Corporate Commercial; Mergers & Acquisitions; Employment

Ba (Hons) Law With Accountancy, Law; Accountancy

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