Proposal Writer 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.

he 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. 

• Proactively works with Product Consultants, Sellers and Solutions Consultants to execute professional, accurate and persuasive proposals. 

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
- 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

• 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

• Contribute to content management
- Search, copy, and paste question & answer pairs from data repository tools and other source into RFP questionnaires to complete first drafts 
- Identify content that requires updating or removal from data repository tools

• 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

Skills
• 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)

Preferred Qualifications
• 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

Competencies
• Highly organized
• Initiative taker 
• Desire to learn about technology 
• Detail oriented