The Proposal Associate works with product consultants, senior proposal writers, team lead, department manager, sales people, and subject matter experts across North America to support Ceridian’s responses to requests for proposals (RFPs) for the Dayforce Product.

Proposal Associate

The Proposal Associate works with product consultants, senior proposal writers, team lead, department manager, sales people, and subject matter experts across North America to support Ceridian’s responses to requests for proposals (RFPs) for the Dayforce Product.

The Proposal Associate produces first drafts of proposals that are accurate. The Proposal Associate also manages RFP-related tasks and assignments to completion, on deadline.

• Take direction and execute required deliverables to complete RFP projects; direction to come from product consultants, senior proposal writers, team lead or department manager; deliverables can include:
• First draft answers to RFP questions, i.e., filling out questionnaires in Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel.
• Formatting first drafts of RFP responses using the Ceridian-branded templates; ensuring that drafts comply to brand standards for typefaces (headlines and body copy), colors, bullets, paragraph leading, call-out boxes, etc.

- Uploading answers to RFP questions and submitting final proposals to online procurement applications such as Ariba

- Finding, naming, organizing, zipping RFP appendix items

- Transcribing audio files of strategy meetings

- Obtaining the legal department’s review, comments, and redlines on RFPs
 

- Requesting, tracking, and expediting answers to RFP questions from internal and external subject matter experts

- Placing requests to the Princeton print department to prepare hard copies of proposals to specification, on deadline

• Light project management, including the following:

- Assigning, tracking, reporting, and expediting tasks for RFPs

- Escalating tasks that are at risk for timely completion to project leaders; project leaders can include the product consultant, senior proposal writer, the team lead and/or manager of the product consultant team

- Participate in conference call meetings for RFP projects

• Search, copy, and paste question & answer pairs from Qvidian into RFP questionnaires to complete first drafts

- Continuously improve Qvidian skills and become an intermediate user of Qvidian

- Suggest to senior proposal writers, team lead and/or department manager new content that is needed for the Qvidian database; identify expired content and suggest it for updating

• File and complete administrative work on completed proposals, to include:

- Store completed proposals on the Product Consultant SharePoint Site

- Store completed proposals in Salesforce with the specific RFP request and opportunity

· Meet all required deadlines to acceptable quality standards

EDUCATION

• University Bachelors Degree or a combination of equivalent work experience

WORKING HOURS

• Flexible (Morning, Mid and Night shifts)

SKILL Exceptional listening and communications skills

• Strong time management and prioritization skills
• Ability to work independently
• Ability to use initiative to escalate issues
• Work well under deadlines; able to multi-task
• Demonstrated competence with applications and software including Microsoft Office Suite; ability to easily learn new applications (e.g. Qvidian)

EXPERIENCE (Preferred)

• Industry knowledge in HR, Payroll, Workforce Management is desirable
• French language business writing is considered an asset
• Understanding of business, sales process/cycle, and associated roles

COMPENTENCIES

• Highly organized
• Detail oriented
• Technical proficiency
• Exceptional listening and communications skills