Proposal Project Manager I, Safran Passenger Innovations, CA, US

The Proposal Project Manager I will be responsible for ensuring all requests from Request For Proposals (RFPs), including task delegation, proposal process, and submission to the Sales team are comprehensive. They will manage the proposal process to ensure the final proposal deliverables meet company quality standards and all deliverables on schedule.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Coordinate the collection and accumulation of cost, scheduling, and performance elements from functional departments
• Produce professionally written proposal content that clearly articulates the organizations value proposition, coordinate proper governance and proposal sign off
• Improve proposal writing results by evaluating, recommending, and re-designing processes, approach, coordination, and templates from time to time
• Review RFPs and ensure the Proposal team is prepared to get all needed details during the initial program meetings with the Sales team
• Research and analyze historical data and develop pricing models to support proposal efforts
• Develop reports as needed to support analytical and pricing efforts
• Initiate process improvements to enhance productivity and accuracy
• Manage the coordination and influencing of proposal content to ensure the final proposal deliverables meet quality standards and RFP deadlines
• Own the proposal/pricing worksheet content from RFP through customer delivery. Content to include but not limited to, all customer requests from pricing, configuration, compliance matrix.
• Review the pricing worksheet and proposal documentation to ensure correct priorities are maintained
• Meet proposal deadlines by establishing priorities and due dates set by the head of Global Sales
• Work with Finance, Sales and other internal teams to create and standardize the ERP pricing worksheets, customer creation and pricing process
• Organize reoccurring meetings with the Digital services team and begin creating processes for billing/service tracking for advertising and 3rd party apps
• Organize reoccurring meetings with the Content team to discuss CSAs and billing/service tracking
• May participate as an active member of the contract writing or negotiating team