Digital Pursuit Support, Sr Analyst

The Opportunity

Huron is a global consultancy that collaborates with clients to drive strategic growth, ignite innovation and navigate constant change. Through a combination of strategy, expertise and creativity, we help clients accelerate operational, digital and cultural transformation, enabling the change they need to own their future.

Join our team as the expert you are now and create your future.

Position Summary

The purpose of this role is to assist Digital business leaders in their sales efforts by driving the preparation of proposals, meeting materials and content during the sales process. This individual will act as a partner to business leaders, look for ways to improve overall quality, gain alignment and accountability, and ensure deliverables are on time and of the highest quality.

With a primary focus on supporting the proposal development process in response to RFI/RFPs, this individual will seek to work efficiently, project manage appropriately, and leverage other resources when appropriate. This person will be a driver of the overall process - gaining alignment and buy-in of team members, ensuring clarity of responsibilities, and escalating when appropriate. In addition, this individual will work across the Digital practice across all industries to secure and harvest content and ensure it is tagged correctly and loaded into the technology platform for broader practice utilization.

The team also looks to this individual to gather feedback on responses and content, improve processes/actions based on feedback, update where needed, present and implement new ideas, and help in developing additional sales enablement tools for the assigned practice.

Qualifications

Key Responsibilities:

• Support the daily sales content needs for the Digital practice, with particular emphasis on developing proposals. This role is responsible for assembling the cross functional team (working closely with lead MD) and driving the process for assignment of responsibilities including the timeline by work product and for executive review. This individual will serve as the interface to corporate functions (i.e. Legal) to ensure necessary information gathering and reviews are completed. Lastly, this individual will be responsible for assembling and proofreading the final product to ensure delivery of a professional proposal including final review of all formatting and brand related items.

• Responsible for becoming highly familiar with solutions and key resources for Digital and serves as interface to broader enablement team (and enterprise-wide leadership) to share suggested sales asset opportunities (presentation, sales sheet, playbook, etc), feedback, trends and coordinate updates.

• Responsible for ensuring all proposal response content is identified with proper content owner, tagged to enable intuitive categorization and uploaded to the sales asset management system (Seismic). In addition, the role is responsible for developing content review/update cycles to ensure overall accuracy and relevancy.

• Responsible for assembling the final product and meticulously proofreading it to guarantee a professional proposal. They pay close attention to detail, meticulously reviewing all formatting and brand-related matters. The end result is a polished submission that aligns with the organization's standards and impresses potential clients.

• Contribute to the continued optimization of proposal best practices and resource training. Which includes co-leading training sessions, developing tools, gathering input for continuous improvement and driving adoption of our sales asset management tool and adherence to content update cadence.

• Review bid scoring criteria as well as dashboards to make help business leaders make bid/no bid recommendations and further optimize our processes and team members.

Related Experience & Core Competencies

• Demonstrated ability to serve as a proposal development leader and overall driver of the process (assign responsibilities, lead timeline, manage action item register, develop risk mitigation plan, establish executive updates/escalation, leverage shared resources), resulting in on time, quality deliverables.

• Strong executive presence and ability to navigate different leadership styles and availability.

• Rigorous attention to detail and focus on quality of deliverables.

• Strong negotiation skills, proven consensus builder, and strong ability to build relationships with leaders.

• Strong writing and editing skills. Includes deep understanding of how to leverage MS formatting and editing capabilities (especially in Word and PowerPoint).

• Demonstrated experience as self-starter with limited need for supervision with ability to take complex issues and tease apart for phased execution.

• Minimum of 3 years' experience in b to b firm. Previous experience with Proposal/RFP development and tools (Sharepoint, Seismic, Salesforce, Shipley, APMP) is highly desired.

The estimated base salary range for this job is $55,000 - $75,000. The range represents a good faith estimate of the range that Huron reasonably expects to pay for this job at the time of the job posting. The actual salary paid to an individual will vary based on multiple factors, including but not limited to specific skills or certifications, years of experience, market changes, and required travel. This job is also eligible to participate in Huron's annual incentive compensation program, which reflects Huron's pay for performance philosophy. Inclusive of annual incentive compensation opportunity, the total estimated compensation range for this job is $59,400 - $84,000. The job is also eligible to participate in Huron's benefit plans which include medical, dental and vision coverage and other wellness programs. The salary range information provided is in accordance with applicable state and local laws regarding salary transparency that are currently in effect and may be implemented in the future.

Posting Category

Generalist

Opportunity Type

Regular

Country

United States of America