Proposal Specialist

Employee Benefit Consultants, Inc.; Mississauga; On-site; CAD 60,000 - 105,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

4 weeks annual vacation

Group insurance (health & dental)

Group RRSP with employer DPSP

Telemedicine 24/7

Training & development programs

Employee assistance program

Active social club & wellness

Job summary

Employee Benefit Consultants, Inc. in Mississauga seeks a Proposal Specialist to lead end-to-end RFP, RFQ and RFI submissions, ensuring compliant, accurate, and compelling responses.

You will coordinate with senior leaders, craft winning narratives, manage documents, schedules, kickoffs, and reviews, and maintain templates and boilerplates across SharePoint and CRM.

This role offers a competitive CAD salary and comprehensive benefits, training, and a collaborative, values‑driven environment.

Qualifications

• Minimum 2 years of relevant experience.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite and Adobe Creative Cloud (Acrobat, InDesign).
• Ability to work with tight deadlines in a changing environment.

Responsibilities

• Leads end-to-end development and delivery of RFP, RFQ, and RFI submissions, ensuring compliance and alignment with client criteria.
• Reviews requests and determines document requirements.
• Coordinates with management and operations to develop win strategies and golden threads.
• Produces and refines compelling narratives and graphics for proposals.
• Manages proposal documents, schedules, kickoffs, reviews, and submittals.

Skills

Communication

Negotiation

Problem-solving

Deadline management

Tools

Microsoft Office Suite

Adobe Creative Cloud

InDesign

Acrobat

Job description

For more than 50 years, our building team has brought countless construction projects to life, distinguished by the high quality of its work, respecting the highest industry standards, and aiming to obtain environmental certifications. Engineers, architects, and other building specialists work with heart and enthusiasm to meet deadlines and exceed client expectations, while improving the well-being of communities.

Office buildings, hospitals and research centers, educational establishments, residential buildings, hotels, shopping centers, factories, sports and cultural centers, our team excels in erecting these places using the tools at the cutting edge of technology and place the human being at the heart of its concerns by advocating an innovative collaborative approach.

Come build the future with us!

The Proposal Specialist position within EBC’s pursuits and proposal team is responsible for the coordination, development, organization, review, and finalization of compelling winning proposal submissions.

As a Proposal Specialist, you are responsible for the development and submission of prequalification and proposal responses and related documents and presentations. This includes 1) Development of compliant, accurate, and compelling response narratives and graphics; and 2) Coordination and administration of proposal documents, schedule, kick-offs, reviews, document control, electronic and print submittals, and response data. You are also responsible for leading and/or supporting continuous improvement initiatives such as boilerplates, resume and project profile development.

You will be the lead and local Ontario based Proposal Support specialist, that works and coordinates with senior members of both the EBC national and local teams to provide support and consistency to our brand, image, approach, and submission documents.

Key Responsibilities

• Leads the end-to-end development and delivery of RFP, RFQ, and RFI submissions, ensuring compliance and alignment with client evaluation criteria.
• Review requests (RFP, RFQ, RFI) and play a key a role in determining document requirements.
• Collaborates with business line management, business development, operations, and executive team to develop golden threads and win strategies, incorporating throughout proposal deliverables.
• Conducts research to produce accurate and comprehensive proposal responses and messaging. Risk identification and mitigation in proposal strategy
• Provides initial go-by write-ups/materials, provides guidance and others as appropriate, identifying known and potential issues with section responses.
• Creates and manages pursuit responsibility matrices defining roles, deadlines, and assignments.
• Initiates and leads proposal meetings, including kickoffs, status updates and reviews.
• Follow-up/Check in on submissions and ensure debriefing is scheduled and attended.
• Production leadership (layout, graphics, and final document readiness oversight)
• Finalizes and submits proposal documents as appropriate.
• Develops and maintains best practices and templates.
• Information management across platforms (SharePoint, CRM).

Requirements

• Minimum 2 years of relevant experience
• Strong management, communication, negotiation and problem-solving skills
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite and Adobe Creative Cloud, including Acrobat, InDesign, and related design tools Skilled at collaborating with and interviewing executives, engineers, construction managers, legal, designers, and others to secure information for various writing assignments.
• Ability to work with tight deadlines in a constantly changing environment.
• Solid research skills and ability to dive into the details to extract key information.
• Exceptional attention to detail, organization and active listening skills.
• Ability to manage multiple submissions to consistently meet high standards and be attentive to quality and deadlines.

Skills and Attitudes Needed

• Clear, adaptable communicator across teams and audiences.
• Builds trust and fosters collaboration in high-pressure settings.
• Thrives in ambiguity with a creative, solution-focused approach.
• Delivers high-quality work in complex, fast-changing environments.
• Balances detail and big-picture priorities with strong execution.
• Manages shifting deadlines while keeping team and client needs in focus.
• Self-motivated with ability to work well with professionals from various backgrounds.
• Strong communications skills
• Driven for winning results and to meet deadlines.
  
• 4 weeks of annual vacation;
• Complete group insurance program upon entry (health and dental components paid by the employer);
• Group RRSP with employer contribution to a Deferred Profit-Sharing Plan (DPSP);
• 24-hour access to a virtual doctor (telemedicine);
• Training and development programs;
• Employee assistance program;
• Active social club and health and wellness committee;
• Diverse, innovative, and stimulating environment;
• A company built on values of respect; integrity, and a job well done;
• Firm recognized as one of Canada's Best Managed Companies.

In accordance with applicable pay transparency legislation, EBC Inc. has included the expected salary range for this role, which is $60,000 - $105,000. Compensation within the range is determined based on relevant experience, qualifications, localization, and internal equity. Base salary is one component of EBC’s comprehensive total rewards offering, which may include performance-based incentives, extended health and wellness benefits, retirement savings programs, and career development opportunities.

As part of our commitment to fair and transparent hiring practices, EBC may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support the candidate pre-screening process. These tools are used responsibly and in accordance with applicable privacy laws as well as EBC’s policies. Final decisions always remain the responsibility of our qualified talent acquisition professionals.

EBC welcomes applications from First Nations, Inuit, and Métis candidates and is committed to fostering an inclusive, culturally safe workplace.