Proposal Manager, Analyst

J.P. Morgan; London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading financial institution as a Proposal Manager, where you will create impactful sales proposals that drive success across various services. You will manage the proposal lifecycle, ensuring high-quality submissions while collaborating with sales teams and subject matter experts.

Qualifications

• Ability to work in a team environment.
• Excellent English writing skills.
• High attention to detail.

Responsibilities

• Project managing and controlling the proposal process end-to-end.
• Preparing, maintaining and managing the proposal project matrix.
• Ensuring that proposals submitted are of high quality.

Skills

Teamwork

English Writing

Attention to Detail

Verbal Communication

Project Management

Organizational Skills

Desktop Publishing

Tools

MS Office

Job description

Step into the dynamic world of J.P. Morgan Payments as a Proposal Manager where you will craft compelling sales proposals that drive success across Treasury Services, Trade & Working Capital, and Merchant Services. Play a pivotal role in helping J.P. Morgan win business by creating customized and impactful proposals.

As a proposal manager- analyst in the EMEA Global Payments Proposal and Solutions Group (GPPSG) team, you will support Treasury Services, Trade & Working Capital, and Merchant Services sales activity by generating customised, compelling and persuasive sales proposals in response to Request for Proposals (RFPs) / Request for Information (RFI) or proactive requests from prospective and existing clients. You are responsible for the lifecycle of each proposal document, from creation, through development to final version.

Job Responsibilities:

• Project managing and controlling the proposal process end-to-end. Partnering with sales managers, subject matter experts, senior management/stakeholders as well as other proposal team members where applicable, to collaborate in the creation, customisation and delivery of our sales proposals
• Developing an understanding of the proposed solution to complete projects and customise responses
• Populating the initial and subsequent drafts using our global repository and ensuring responsiveness to all the client's/prospect's stated requirements/questions
• Preparing, maintaining and managing the proposal project matrix outlining all deliverables and milestones, seeking and coordinating timely input from relevant subject matter experts and escalating any issues to the regional manager
• Conducting regular review meetings to ensure adherence to action items and target dates by all members of the deal team
• Ensuring that proposals submitted are of a high quality, correctly reflect J.P.Morgan solutions, incorporating all information into a professional and competitive proposal adhering to the team’s standard brand and style guide
• Coordinating with subject matter experts and the knowledge manager to update the global repository as responses are created, developed and enhanced
• Participating and leading internal initiatives to promote best practices and process improvement
• Attend meetings and appropriate bank training as required to continue development and to enhance knowledge of cash management, trade and merchant services products globally.

Required Qualifications, Capabilities and Skills:

• Ability to work in a team environment
• Excellent English writing skills
• High attention to detail and customisation
• Strong verbal communication skills
• Project management and organisational skills
• Excellent desktop publishing skills, including a strong working knowledge of Word, Excel and other MS-Office applications

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities and Skills:

• Experience in Proposal writing an advantage