Description
We're looking for a Pre-Sales Engagement Manager to project-manage strategic and complex deals across EMEA.
As a senior individual contributor, you will lead the full bid lifecycle for RFI, RFP and due diligence requests, balancing multiple concurrent bids.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Leading prospect engagement through discovery, clarifications, orals and Q&A, and facilitating requirements workshops
- Advising leadership on bid/no-bid decisions, win themes, competitive positioning and response strategy
- Defining and applying handover standards for Sales, Professional Services and Partners
- Partnering with Professional Services and Solution Sales on scoping and turning discovery into Statement of Work inputs
- Coordinating joint bids with Systems Integrator and Technology Partners on multi-party deals
- Owning the governance of our content database, proposal policies, templates and quality standards
- Resolving complex contractual, compliance and regulatory requirements with Legal, Security, Product and Professional Services
- Mentoring proposal specialists and leading process, tooling and automation improvements
The ideal candidate will have:
- An undergraduate degree and 8+ years of relevant professional experience
- Proposal management experience in financial services or software on complex, multi-stakeholder bids
- A record of leading strategic, high-value RFP, RFI and due diligence responses end to end
- Strong project management across multiple concurrent deadlines
- Credible, persuasive communication with prospects and executives
- Exceptional writing, editing and proofreading skills
- The ability to influence Sales, Legal and Product leaders without direct authority
In return, we're offering:
- Company pension with 6% employer contribution
- 25 days' paid holiday plus volunteer days
- Private medical insurance
- Life insurance and group income protection
- Cycle to work and gym membership salary sacrifice schemes
- Perkbox with discounts, free coffee, and more
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Employee Assistance Programme
The base salary range for this job is: £63,200-£107,400 GBP