This is a contract role with the potential for a full time offer at the end with an initial 6 month trial period. The hours will be 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM Central, Monday – Friday

The Role

The major responsibility of the Contract Associate Sales Project Manager is to synchronize Fusion's efforts in responding to prospect and customer Request for Proposals (RFPs). The Contract Associate Sales Project Manager will draft, review and execute RFP responses. The Contract Associate Sales Project Manager will work cross-functionally with a team of contributors from the Revenue, Services, Product, Security, Legal, and Finance Departments to coordinate responses to these RFPs.

• Work with defined cross-functional groups to review RFPs, understand customer needs and develop strategy for the proposal response
• Meet RFP deadlines by establishing priorities and target dates for information gathering, writing, review, and approval; entering and monitoring tracking data; coordinating requirements with contributors; contributing proposal status information to review meeting; transmitting proposals
• Work effectively with internal subject matter experts to develop consistent compelling responses to satisfy proposal requirements
• Review functional, technical and company information received from internal subject matter experts and develop consistent compelling responses for replication to similar RFPs
• Coordinate final production and delivery of complete RFP response
• Ability to prioritize time and work on multiple proposals simultaneously
• Maintain quality results by using templates; following proposal-writing standards including readability, consistency, and tone; maintaining proposal support databases
• Improve the proposal-writing processes by providing and implementing innovative ideas to maximize efficiency and effectiveness of RFP responses
• Curate the RFP response database to create a company knowledge base for responding to formal RFPs as well as answering ad hoc inquiries from prospects and customers
• Perform other sales enablement activities as needed, including training the sales teams on internal processes, assisting with developing sales tools(including but not limited to, slide decks, proposals, ROI reports, etc.), and delivering targeted content for specific opportunities.