Proposals Specialist

3 months ago

Oakville, Canada PCL Construction Full time

**The future you want is within reach.**

At PCL, we build the places where life happens and find camaraderie in the process. We're a community of builders committed to building better communities. That's why we're always looking ahead, and not just to the next project or what's next in our industry.

We're also looking at what's next for you and how we can help you build a career you're proud of. Responding to continued market growth, PCL’s Toronto district - the company’s largest operating centre - is seeking to expand our proposals team with the addition of an experienced Proposals Specialist. If you love the thrill of the pursuit, bringing visual and written excellence to enhance win strategies and working within a highly collaborative team environment to produce winning proposals, then this is the opportunity for you.

Here's how a Proposals Specialist for our Toronto office located in Oakville, ON contributes to our team:
**Responsibilities**:

- Translates a proposal “vision” into a compelling proposal layout. Creates compelling graphics and visual communications, involving strategic image selection and/or acquisition.
- Collaborates to complete layout and production of proposal material with a professional and brand compliant style.
- Evaluates narratives for relevance, comprehension and applicability. Able to identify narrative requirements and the appropriate stakeholder to produce them. Creates new proposal narratives as required.
- May lead the proposal planning process, including review of client requirements, development of proposal responsibility matrix and content outline and creation of timeline/assignments.
- Proactively tracks and maintains communication and assignments among all team members (local and remote stakeholders) to ensure internal deadlines are met. Identifies deficiencies in the process and recommends solutions.
- Influences and responds to the proposal stakeholder expectations and coordinates their deliverables.
- Accurately proofs, edits and rewords text to deliver a high-quality, complaint, error-free submission on time. Ensures content is written in a singular voice and that there is continuity in the messaging throughout the document.
- Mentors proposal coordinators on proposal best practices and technical design layout skills.
- Identifies interview requirements and coordinates the presentation of presentations and interviews. May schedule and coordinate interview prep workshops as necessary.

**Qualifications**:

- Postsecondary degree or diploma in marketing, communications, journalism, or equivalent.
- Association of Proposal Management Professionals (APMP) foundation certification, Certified Professional Services Marketer (CPSM) certification and/or Society for Marketing Professional Services (SMPS) or equivalent is preferred.
- 3- 5 years of progressive experience in a proposal role.
- Ability to manage and write portions of various proposals.
- Strong working knowledge of proposal fundamentals and best practices.
- Advanced interpersonal skills with an ability to collaborate with a diverse group sensitively, tactfully and diplomatically.
- Ability to execute a lean, quality pursuit process and participate in strategy sessions.
- Strong business acumen with an understanding of industry practices and new developments (construction process, delivery models, contract types).
- Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office, Adobe Creative Cloud and other relevant marketing software systems.
- Advanced InDesign layout skills; competent functionality within Adobe Suite of programs (i.e. photoshop, PPT, Illustrator, etc.) with ability to create brand compliant visual content.

PCL is an innovative, employee-owned company comprised of people who find passion in their profession and take pride in doing great work every day. Our work powers the infrastructure and utilities that are essential to daily life and our projects are the scene of vacations, careers, education and healing. We are consistently ranked among the best companies to work for because we are committed to supporting and developing our teams.

The PCL Companies celebrate diversity and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to creating equitable opportunities and an inclusive environment for all employees and applicants. We make employment-related decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability or veteran status.

PCL combines numerous pay and benefit strategies to provide a comprehensive and competitive total rewards package. Any salary range displayed by a job board is an estimate. Your salary, which considers your unique qualifications and experience, is just one component of the robust total rewards you'll enjoy at PCL. This may include an employee share purchase offering, discretionary annual performance bonus, comprehensive benefits and wellness programs, retirement plan plus matching, and career develo

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