Tax and Legal - Pursuit and Proposal Manager

Job description / Role

Line of Service
Tax

Specialism
General Tax Consulting

Management Level
Manager

Job Description & Summary

As a Pursuit and Proposal Manager you'll work as part of the regional Business Development team and play a vital role into the following areas:
- Responsible for supporting the TLS BD Director and TLS partners and business managing pursuit opportunities across multiple jurisdictions.
- Driving proposition development and proposal project management in conjunction with the technical teams.
- Sourcing and/or writing, collateral, knowledge and insights, to help pursuit teams deliver distinctive and tailored winning solutions and messages.
- Support in developing insights and tools to ensure that information is readily available to facilitate the organization in achieving its business needs.

Primary Duties & Responsibilities:

Customer
- Engage with TLS Business Development team and TLS BU/country partners and key stakeholders to confirm and support proposals
- Collaborate with TLS BD team and technical delivery teams to tap into industry expertise and draw valuable information for PwC Middle East's clients and industries across the region
- Support the TLS team in facilitating the internal support of proposal development stages.
- This may include gathering information to pull together first drafts of proposals, assessing client requirements, and reviewing to ensure that proposal requirements are filled, providing inputs and organizing the content including structure and formatting of proposal documents
- Support cross jurisdictional BUs in their wider pursuit/proposal needs

Internal Process
- Project manage and prioritise internal resources around deployment on strategic proposals
- Support the TLS BD team in developing proposals for the TLS LoS
- Work on collecting sources for assigned research on key targeted themes relevant to the business priorities of the firm
- Update the knowledge management system to serve the business needs and requirements inclusive of maintaining a current list of resume libraries, project reference databases, project deliverables, pricing databases, tools, templates, marketing collateral
- Work in the firm CRM (Salesforce) to report on wins and losses relating to pursuits under management which aligns to other BD processes
- Work at developing templates and automated ppt. macros for ease of use by tech team on unsupported opportunities/pursuits
- Managing the development of a standard suite of proposals for all product lines/BUs and services
- Managing the development of standardised industry specific CVs for all Tax team (manager level and above)
- For xLoS proposals, agreeing a standardised streamlined output format with corresponding team members in other LoS BUs

Learning & Growth
- Act as a key resource and liaison to other functional areas of the business, building cross-functional relationships as needed

Requirements

Knowledge , Skills and Abilities:

Education
- Bachelor's Degree in Marketing Studies, Research or Business Administration

Language
- Fluency in spoken and written English, proficiency in Arabic is an advantage

Overall Experience
- 5+ years of experience in proposal management with evidence of prior proposal development

Specific Experience
- Basic research and account management skills
- Experience using Microsoft Office packages, specifically PowerPoint for Proposals and Presentations

Knowledge and Skills
- Knowledge of the Professional Services Industry
- Strong PowerPoint skills
- Good project management skills

About the Company

At PwC Middle East, we've set out an ambitious purpose and strive to live it everyday: to solve important problems and build trust in society.

We're a community of solvers that come together in unexpected ways to build trust and create sustained outcomes. We solve important problems, support one another as we grow, develop and build fulfilling careers.

PwC provides industry-focused services for public and private clients across Assurance and Audit, Deals, Consulting, Tax and Legal. We draw on our development legacy that brings together the collective experience of over 7,000 people in our region with offices across 12 countries to solve for tomorrow.

We're striving to consistently deliver innovative work that builds trust and delivers sustained outcomes. And we're proud of the strength that comes from all our different backgrounds and experiences and we value everyone's uniqueness. We thrive in uncertainty, operate with integrity and leverage the diverse perspectives of our teams.

If you're looking for a place that fuels your ambition to make a difference, that matches your curiosity with continuous learning opportunities and reimagines ways of working to enable you to lead a more balanced life, then you're a future PwCer.