Business Development Assistant
CurrentBusiness Development Assistant to the sales department in its initiatives, programs, and market pursuits. Work closely with internal and external stakeholders to support development opportunities for contract services solutions for government-owned, utility-owned, and industrial facilities.Reporting directly to the Senior Vice President of Growth and Sales and support the O&M President and other key leaders as needed.• Support the BD department's initiatives with the planning, executing, and tracking of business development programs.• Work with SVP of Growth on internal and external events, including overseeing logistics, managing registrations, coordinating with vendors, creating itineraries, and ordering required materials.• Leverage NetSuite for pursuit reporting and pipeline assessment. Assist with the management of pipeline reporting tools and communications.• Analyzes RFP requirements, prepares milestone schedules, and cross-references matrix to meet clients’ proposal requirements.• Ensures that proposals and other marketing materials are accurate, timely, and well-written.• Coordinate with BD, Strategic Accounts, Community Engagement, and Operations to gather required proposal content, including related research projects and review comments.• Assisted in building the proposal compliance matrix and tracking the fulfillment of all requirements for the proposal of engineering development items.• Monitor the status of proposal development-related documents for completeness, compliance with RFP requirements, and inclusion of win themes and discriminators.• Provide oversight of final proposal production, including desktop publishing, proofreading, editing, printing, and binding.• Assist with travel planning and Expense reporting.• Proofs and edits reports and memos for the team.• Schedules meetings, books conference rooms, and assists in meeting support. Initiates action items from managers' meeting notes and distributes them accordingly.