Responsibilities:
- Develops best practices and departmental efficiencies and ensures execution across team.
- Leads, supervises and reviews work of Proposal Development Specialists.
- Schedules and hosts meetings with senior Sales and Finance management to formulate proforma analyses of large, complex projects that comply with Wesco’s market strategy and profitability guidelines.
- Coordinates and hosts meetings with senior Operations, Inventory Management, Supply Chain Services, and Sales leaders to find resolution to post-implementation conflicts between customer expectations and Wesco capabilities.
- Leads status review meetings, providing guidance and ensuring all stakeholders are on track and timelines are met.
- Serves as project manager and central point of contact for assigned proposal opportunities.
- Works with Sales and Operations to prepare and submit of proposals/scopes of work.
- Establishes priorities and target dates for information gathering, writing, review, and approval.
- Facilitates cross-functional kick-off, status update, and approval conference calls,
providing guidance and ensuring project timelines are met.
Qualifications:
- Bachelors Degree - or equivalent work experience
- 4 - 6 years proposal/sales writing
- 3+ project management and collaboration skills in a high volume or fast paced environment
- Excellent oral communication skills accompanied by strong written communication skills, including original composition proofreading, and editing
- Strategic thinking and problem-solving skills
- Detail oriented with diligent follow through
- Ability to build strong business relationships with other functional areas to best support mutual objectives
- Proficient in Office including Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, and Excel, as well as TEAMS and SharePoint
- 4 years distributor sales and marketing experience preferred
- Experience in a business to business setting in a sales or operations support role preferred