Consulting - Activation Hub Proposal Manager

PricewaterhouseCoopers

Dubai, UAE

Ref: HP639-1206

Job description / Role

Employment: Full Time

Line of Service
Advisory

Specialism
Customer

Management Level
Manager

Job Description & Summary
A career within Operations Consulting services, will provide you with the opportunity to help our clients optimise all elements of their operations to move beyond the role of a cost effective business enabler and become a source of competitive advantages. We focus on product innovation and development, supply chain, procurement and sourcing, manufacturing operations, service operations and capital asset programmes to drive both growth and profitability.

To really stand out and make us ?t for the future in a constantly changing world, each and every one of us at PwC needs to be an authentic and inclusive leader, at all grades/levels and in all lines of service. To help us achieve this we have the PwC Professional; our global leadership development framework. It gives us a single set of expectations across our lines, geographies and career paths, and provides transparency on the skills we need as individuals to be successful and progress in our careers, now and in the future.

Key responsibilities:

- Effectively lead teams on live proposals to coordinate proposal development, submission and negotiation
- Execute firm standardised proposal processes and management to coordinate multi-territory proposal responses
- Think strategically about the opportunity and the client to ensure dynamic win themes are developed and presented throughout the document
- Ability to organise and collaborate with individuals at all levels of seniority across multiple territories, where required
- Coordinate resources (writers, designers, document production, technical subject matter specialists, etc.) to drive the efficient development of LAH proposals

Scope of role and qualifications:

- Consistently lead and manage concurrently large, strategic RFP responses, including leveraging the knowledge of a professional services firm's operations, internal processes, tools, and support services
- Demonstrate thorough understanding of key elements, terms, and processes found within a Consulting or professional services proposal
- Demonstrate thorough ability to build key relationships with account, vertical, and solution delivery Partners and Managing Directors to provide the best value to clients
- Demonstrate ability to communicate compelling value propositions; manage resource requirements, project workflow, and, prepare or coordinate complex written and verbal materials
- Demonstrate abilities and/or a proven record of success in managing "up" the chain of command working with senior level executives
- Demonstrates proven ability to develop strategy; as well as write, communicate, facilitate, and present cogently; to and/or for different levels of industry audiences, clients, and internal staff and management
- Ability to be creative and flexible in thinking and problem solving. Marrying this with the ability to bring experience and knowledge from prior experience to each new opportunity

Additional details on role:

- Ability to develop a comprehensive plan from scratch and implement
- Contribute to the management of cross-border proposal knowledge and content
- Contribute to leadership dashboards and management reports, as well as other ad hoc requests for presentations
- Contribute to practice process development and documentation, specific to coordination and collaboration with entities such as Finance, Cross Border Facilitation, Sourcing, Proposal Hub, etc

Requirements

Preferred skills and experience

- Experience in the marketing and/or sales organisation for a professional services or consulting firm
- Strong communication and writing skills
- Strong presentation skills
- Independent worker
- Strategic thinker
- Strong organisation and attention to detail
- Process driven and able to facilitate workflow in challenging conditions and working with difficult stakeholders
- Excellent communication (verbal and written)
- Strong project and proposal management skills (preference for APMP or similar industry certifications)
- Ability to team with stakeholders across functions, borders, and regardless of position
- Capabilities with basic creative design (powerpoint, graphics, etc.)

Minimum years experience required

- 4+ years of experience in proposal management and development (within professional services and in a Consulting environment would be an advantage)

Language

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

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.

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