Job Information
ThermoFisher Scientific Proposal/Quote Specialist II (Life Sciences) in Sofia, Bulgaria
Work Schedule
Standard (Mon-Fri)
Environmental Conditions
Office
Job Description
When you’re part of the team at Thermo Fisher Scientific, you will do important work, like helping customers in finding cures for cancer, protecting the environment, or making sure our food is safe. Your work will have real-world impact, and you will be supported in achieving your career goals.
Location
The role will be based within one of the Drug Product sites or one of the PSG’s Centre of Excellence (CoE) sites to ensure strong alignment and partnership with the businesses and functional leaders.
How will you make an impact?
The Oral Drug Delivery Development Proposals Specialist will take customer provided technical information along with reasonable assumptions and estimate the cost and pricing for development programs for pharmaceutical products. This position will then write the related bid proposals that will be issued to the customer through the sales team. Our team supports sales efforts related to the opportunities that we quote on as well as manage the relevant quote records in Salesforce.com. Our team offers a tremendous amount of learning and development opportunities!
What will you do?
Responsible for reviewing Requests for Proposal information to ensure adequate information has been received to be able to prepare project costing and to collaborate closely with operational and sales teams as appropriate.
With support from senior members of proposals team, support the Sales team on teleconferences with the client to confirm the technical aspects of projects are understood and costed appropriately. Follow-up as required.
Responsible for building cost estimates in the current costing tool.
Responsible for drafting and completing the bid proposals using the current templates with moderate level of review from their manager.
Will receive guidance from senior members of the proposal team related to the pricing that should be applied to opportunities.
Where asked by their Line Manager, attend the Closing Call teleconferences for their respective sites and contribute where required.
Responsible for acquiring the required internal approvals prior to issuing the final proposal.
Manage the editing and updating of the quote records in SalesForce.com.
Contribute to continuous improvements within the proposals process.
Education
- Bachelor level education in Science, Engineering, or Business is strongly preferred or equivalent professional experience
Experience
3+ years of professional working experience
Pharmaceutical services industry experience is preferred but not required
Knowledge, Skills, Abilities
High proficiency and capability with MS Office Suite primarily with Excel and Word
Experience writing client facing documents in MS Word is preferred but not required
Proficiency with Salesforce.com (CRM)
Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to collaborate effectively within a diverse group of colleagues in various locations
Demonstrated ability to work in a team environment with shared metric goals
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