Proposal Development Specialist
- Recruiter
- RTI Health Solutions
- Location
- Didsbury, Greater Manchester
- Salary
- Competitive + Benefits
- Posted
- 05 Feb 2016
- Closes
- 19 Feb 2016
- Ref
- 16762F
- Sectors
- Scientific & Pharmaceutical
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
Job Description
A business unit of RTI International, RTI Health Solutions (RTI-HS) provides consulting and research expertise to pharmaceutical, biotechnology, diagnostics and medical device companies.
Offering broad professional and industry experience, RTI-HS staff includes experts in health economics, patient-reported outcomes, market access and outcomes strategy, health preference assessment, epidemiology, biometrics, drug safety and pharmacovigilance and clinical development. Under the direction of our leadership, RTI-HS teams design and implement research programs customized to meet each client's specific needs. In addition to study design, conduct, and analysis, RTI-HS also implements communication strategies, including publications in peer-reviewed journals and poster, podium, and workshop presentations at professional conferences.
We are currently seeking a Proposal Specialist in our Manchester UK office to coordinate and manage the proposal development process working in collaboration with scientists, and other operations groups.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Coordinate receipt and routing of incoming client requests for proposals (RFPs).
- Manage proposal initiation activities and scheduling.
- Participate in proposal team meetings and coordinate actions.
- Ensure proposal teams are aware of and are in compliance with RFP requirements.
- Coordinate proposal review (technical, editorial, quality assurance and budget) and approval using an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system.
- Respond to ad hoc search requests using ERP.
- Deliver proposals via email to clients and respond to client responses.
Additional duties may include:
- Scheduling and participation in ad hoc proposal team meetings.
- Assisting with proposal writing and budget development.
- Lead or participate in proposal improvement initiatives.
- Train new staff on proposal development process.
- Research disease background information for inclusion in proposals.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s level degree.
- Demonstrated proficiency of the MS Office suite
- Ability to coordinate teams of various size.
- Demonstrated attention to detail, accuracy and timeliness.
- Ability to work well with others.
- Demonstrated ability to listen and communicate well both verbally and in writing.
- Ability to work independently.
- Ability to multitask numerous activities.
- Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with co-workers, supervisors, other staff, and vendors.
About RTI
RTI-Health Solutions provides scientifically rigorous research and consulting services to pharmaceutical, biotech and medical device companies. Our research and consulting services focus on health economics and outcomes research. Our various practice areas include: Health Economics, Patient Reported Outcomes, Pharmacoepidemiology, Drug Safety and Pharmacovigilance, Market Access and Outcomes Strategy, Biostatistics, Clinical Services and Health Preference Assessment