Join Fortrea's Global Business Development Team

Join Fortrea's global Business Development team and play a key role in delivering high-quality proposals that help secure new clinical research partnerships. Working closely with Proposal Managers and cross-functional stakeholders, you will support the development of budgets, proposals, RFIs, and client responses while ensuring deadlines are met in a fast-paced environment. This is an excellent opportunity for an organized and detail-oriented professional with proposal, project coordination, CRO, or pharmaceutical industry experience who enjoys collaborating across global teams and contributing to process improvements that drive business success.

Summary Of Responsibilities

• Assists Proposal Managers with all aspects of the appropriate proposal process (text, quote, budget, and/or response to Requests for Information [RFIs]) (i.e., collating data, following up with other departments, meeting minutes, etc.).
• Responsible for managing opportunities of low complexity, with support.
• Shadow and/or assist more senior colleagues on opportunities of medium complexity.
• Review and analyze RFI and/or Request for Proposal (RFP) documents to gain understanding of client requirements and to assist in identifying missing information for budget, proposal and/or RFI response preparation. Collates follow-up questions for additional information as requested.
• Attend strategic and operational calls related to the opportunity.
• Works across the organization in matrix environment across multiple time-zones and locations to facilitate the process and complete deliverables.
• Drafts standard documents in accordance with agreed strategy and Sponsor requirements and expectations under the pressure of changing timelines.
• Administratively supports facilitating internal and external opportunity management negotiations (i.e., pricing, process, resources, timelines, etc.) as needed.
• Ensures timely delivery of assigned deliverables.
• Escalates issues/challenges to Manager for support on resolution.
• Performs timely and accurate data entry into departmental and/or corporate databases/systems as directed.
• Seeks appropriate knowledge of the technical and regulatory environments.
• Contributes to assigned process improvement initiatives and supports implementation.
• Perform quality control activities per the appropriate process/requirements.
• Expected to contribute to content library by submitting new content or updates to existing content, using the official content submission process. May be requested to handle the content submission for more senior colleagues.
• Completes other appropriate duties, as assigned by the manager, which require similar skills in accordance with business needs and common sense.