5-8 years of relevant experience; advanced degree may substitute for experience
Proven leadership skills to direct and motivate proposal teams
Strong written and verbal communication abilities
Capability to manage multiple projects with varying deadlines
Experience in forecasting and reporting proposal statuses
Willingness to travel up to 20% of the time
Responsibilities
Evaluate new and renewal services, focusing on customer needs
Develop costing for Dematic solutions and document pertinent information
Lead proposal teams and present results to sales and potential customers
Facilitate project transitions to operations post-contract award
Analyze customer requirements and design applications to meet their needs
Generate costing workbooks for assigned opportunities and services
Coordinate with sales and operations on renewals and document agreements
Benefits
Flexibility to work remotely based on business demands
Opportunity to conduct training sessions for the Business Development department
Engagement in complex technical interchange and knowledge transfer
Involvement in developing new proposal content for services
Collaboration with various departments to create competitive solutions
Full Job Description
The Solution Development Lead is responsible for the evaluation of new and renewal services representing all services Dematic has to offer including Resident Maintenance in which they will develop costing focused on the customer’s Dematic solution(s) and needs. Pertinent information will be documented and provided in support of preparing successful and accurate proposals. They will work with all departments of Dematic to develop safe, low risk, creative and competitive solutions to meet a client’s needs. Where appropriate, they will lead the proposal team in its efforts and present the results to Dematic Sales and possibly to the potential customer. After contract award, they will be expected to facilitate the transition of the project to the operations team.Tasks and Qualifications:
Works on medium to large sized, individual projects, where design is complex integrating hardware and software.
Analyzes customers' business requirements and application objectives; develops an application design in products to meet customers' needs and uptime guarantees
Will understand customer operations as well as Dematic products which will then derive staffing levels needed for success as needed
Able to bundle service offerings that are a perfect complement to our new business system solutions
Generates all costing workbooks for opportunities and services assigned
Develops and documents the data need to generate a proposal document and work with the proposal team to ensure accuracy.
Assist in the development of new proposal content for new services.
Monitors assignment schedule and partners with sales on missing information for assignment completion.
Assists with the maintenance of the Dematic proposal boiler plates as assigned.
Respond to semi-complex inquiries related to the iProposal tool design, functionality, and usage
Initiates reviews with operation stakeholders on costing methodologies and adjusts as needed.
Coordinates meetings with Sales and Operations to discuss renewals that fall outside the standard costs and documents the agreements.
Able to manage multiple priorities and work with key stake holders to ensure that all assignments are not only accurate, but are completed on time, according to target completion dates. Conducts training sessions covering specified areas such as estimating standards, sales proposal standards, etc. to the Business Development department.
Performs complex technical interchange and knowledge transfer for both processes and application of products to system design.
This role requires flexibility to work remotely as needed based on business demands.
What We Are Looking For:
BS/BA in related discipline or advanced degree
5-8 years of successful experience in related field. Advanced degree may be substituted for experience, where applicable.
Ability to lead, direct, motivate, and coordinate activities of a proposal team
Strong written and verbal communication skills
Ability to manage multiple opportunities with various deadlines simultaneously.
Reliably forecast and report out on proposal status