Proposals Specialist

PCL; Toronto; On-site; CAD 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Proposals Specialist in the Solar sector, where your creativity and expertise in proposal writing will shine. This role involves crafting compelling proposals that resonate with clients, collaborating with diverse teams, and ensuring high-quality submissions. You'll leverage your technical writing skills to convey key messages effectively, while integrating core values like sustainability and community impact. With a commitment to employee development and a culture of collaboration, this position offers a unique opportunity to contribute to meaningful projects that shape communities. If you're passionate about making a difference, this role is perfect for you.

Benefits

Employee share purchase offering

Discretionary annual performance bonus

Comprehensive benefits

Wellness programs

Retirement plan plus matching

Career development programs

Qualifications

• 5 years of experience in proposal or related role with strong writing skills.
• Advanced knowledge of proposal fundamentals and best practices.

Responsibilities

• Translate proposal visions into compelling layouts and graphics.
• Collaborate on proposal material ensuring brand compliance.

Skills

Proposal Writing

Graphic Design

Project Management

Interpersonal Skills

Business Acumen

Education

Postsecondary degree or diploma in marketing, communications, or journalism

APMP foundation certification

CPSM certification

SMPS certification

Tools

Microsoft Office

Adobe Creative Cloud

InDesign

Job description

At PCL, we build the places where life happens and find camaraderie in the process. We're a community of builders committed to building better communities. That's why we're always looking ahead, and not just to the next project or what's next in our industry.

We're also looking at what's next for you and how we can help you build a career you're proud of.

Here's how a Proposals Specialist for our Solar Canada office contributes to our team:

• Translates a proposal “vision” into a compelling proposal layout. Creates compelling graphics and visual communications, involving strategic image selection and/or acquisition.
• Collaborates to complete layout and production of proposal material with a professional and brand compliant style.
• Evaluates narratives for relevance, comprehension and applicability. Able to identify narrative requirements and the appropriate stakeholder to produce them. Creates new proposal narratives as required.
• May lead the proposal planning process, including review of client requirements, development of proposal responsibility matrix and content outline and creation of timeline/assignments.
• Proactively tracks and maintains communication and assignments among all team members (local and remote stakeholders) to ensure internal deadlines are met. Identifies deficiencies in the process and recommends solutions.
• Influences and responds to the proposal stakeholder expectations and coordinates their deliverables.
• Accurately proofs, edits and rewards text to deliver a high-quality, compliant, error-free submission on time. Ensures content is written in a singular voice and that there is continuity in the messaging throughout the document.
• Identifies interview requirements and coordinates the presentation of presentations and interviews. May schedule and coordinate interview prep workshops as necessary.
• Develops clear, concise, and well-organized proposal documents tailored to the client's needs and specifications, ensuring alignment with the company’s strengths, technical capabilities and previous project successes.
• Integrates PCL’s core values, such as safety, sustainability, and community impact, into technical sections of proposals to differentiate ourselves as industry leaders.
• Leverage technical writing to customize proposals to the distinct needs of individual clients, ensuring that our key messages are effectively conveyed and resonate within the specific context of each submission.
• Reports to Marketing Manager.

Qualifications

• Postsecondary degree or diploma in marketing, communications, journalism, or equivalent.
• Association of Proposal Management Professionals (APMP) foundation certification, Certified Professional Services Marketer (CPSM) certification and/or Society for Marketing Professional Services (SMPS) or equivalent is considered an asset.
• 5 years of progressive experience in a proposal or related role. Ability to manage and write portions of various proposals.
• Strong working knowledge of proposal fundamentals and best practices.
• Advanced interpersonal skills with an ability to collaborate with a diverse group sensitively, tactfully and diplomatically. Ability to execute a lean, quality pursuit process and participate in strategy sessions.
• Strong business acumen with an understanding of industry practices and new developments (i.e., construction process, delivery models, contract types).
• Skilled in Microsoft Office, Adobe Creative Cloud and other relevant marketing software systems.
• Skilled in InDesign layout skills; competent functionality within Adobe Suite of programs (i.e., photoshop, PPT, Illustrator, etc.) with ability to create brand compliant visual content.

PCL is an innovative, employee-owned company comprised of people who find passion in their profession and take pride in doing great work every day. Our work powers the infrastructure and utilities that are essential to daily life and our projects are the scene of vacations, careers, education and healing. We are consistently ranked among the best companies to work for because we are committed to supporting and developing our teams.

The PCL Companies celebrate diversity and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to creating equitable opportunities and an inclusive environment for all employees and applicants. We make employment-related decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability or veteran status.

PCL combines numerous pay and benefit strategies to provide a comprehensive and competitive total rewards package. Any salary range displayed by a job board is an estimate. Your salary, which considers your unique qualifications and experience, is just one component of the robust total rewards you'll enjoy at PCL. This may include an employee share purchase offering, discretionary annual performance bonus, comprehensive benefits and wellness programs, retirement plan plus matching, and career development programs.

Should you require an accommodation during the application process, please contact us at [e-mail] with the position and location you are interested in.

Together, we can build success and a better future. Let’s get started!

Employee Status: Regular Full-Time