Proposal Writer

Summary

Join Turnitin as a Proposal Writer and leverage your writing, organizational, and time management skills to craft winning bids. Collaborate with subject matter experts, optimize proposal content repositories, and ensure adherence to company standards. This role involves internal collaboration with various teams and occasional customer engagement. You will manage the end-to-end RFP/tender process, maintain a content repository, and stay updated on product knowledge. Turnitin offers a remote-centric culture and a comprehensive benefits package prioritizing well-being.

Requirements

• 2+ years experience as a bid writer, tender coordinator, or an equivalent combination of education and experience to successfully perform the key responsibilities of the job
• Organizational skills including accuracy, timeliness and detail oriented with the ability to work well while managing multiple activities and meeting established goals
• Excellent writing, editing and reviewing skills
• Excellent English communication skills (both written and verbal)
• Understanding of tender processes, Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) region
• Proficiency in Google Workspace (docs, sheets, slides) and Microsoft Office (Word, Excel)
• Higher Education level, or equivalent experience
• Ability to work local hours for the NOA/EMEA regions

Responsibilities

• Understand the requirements and manage the end to end process for RFPs/Tenders and any procurement documentation
• Execute an intake process for RFPs/Tenders with Go-to-Market (GTM) stakeholders
• Drive each contributor to timelines and ensure completion of the proposal
• Utilize the content repository to complete the response where there are gaps in the available content, engage appropriate stakeholders to create the response
• Ensure proposal documents follow standard company formatting and quality standards including consistent branding for all company specific documents
• Provide input into the design of the content repository structure
• Continually optimize the repository structure to ensure ease of access, security and data integrity
• Work with internal stakeholders to maintain available master documents sets including templates, pre-written responses
• Proactively collaborate and promote adherence to processes with a network of subject matter experts (SMEs)
• Consolidate information provided by SMEs to edit it into a defined style, tone of voice, ensuring that it is clearly articulated and easy to integrate into a proposal
• Scheduling regular reviews of the content repository to identify areas that need to be updated/expanded
• Maintain knowledge of our product set and understand the value proposition provide to our customers
• Understand how our products fall into the marketplace and with competitors
• Good interpersonal and influencing skills
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and manage multiple priorities
• Ability to prioritize own workload
• Ability to work independently and perform under pressure to tight deadlines
• Excellent communication skills, writing and analytical skills
• Proactive working style with the ability to adapt to change

Preferred Qualifications

• At least 2 years experience working with various departmental streams including Sales, Managers, Technical, Developers and Administrative staff
• Experience in Enterprise software/SaaS
• Multiple language knowledge (Spanish desired)
• Local compliance & registration for EMEA jurisdictions region extending to web-based portals, e.g. Spain, Italy, France

Benefits

• Remote First Culture
• Health Care Coverage*
• Education Reimbursement*
• Competitive Paid Time Off
• 4 Self-Care Days per year
• National Holidays*
• 2 Founder Days + Juneteenth Observed
• Paid Volunteer Time*
• Charitable contribution match*
• Monthly Wellness or Home Office Reimbursement/*
• Access to Modern Health (mental health platform)
• Parental Leave*
• Retirement Plan with match/contribution*