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Parexel

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1983

⚕️ Healthcare Insurance

🧬 Biotechnology

💊 Pharmaceuticals

💰 Venture Round on 1990-01

Healthcare Insurance • Biotechnology • Pharmaceuticals

Parexel is one of the world's largest clinical research organizations (CROs), providing comprehensive services for the clinical development process from Phase I to IV. The company specializes in portfolio management, clinical trial management, regulatory strategy, market access, and lifecycle management for biopharmaceuticals. Parexel aims to speed life-changing medicines to market by leveraging its clinical, regulatory, and therapeutic expertise. With a global team of over 21,000 professionals, Parexel works to integrate patient insights and innovative trial designs to develop treatments across therapeutic areas such as oncology, neuroscience, rare diseases, and more. It focuses on delivering patient-centric and efficient clinical trials.

📋 Description

• Receives and analyzes Requests for Proposals (RFPs) documentation including study protocol or synopsis and ensures all appropriate Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) are assigned and notified of the RFP. • Facilitates the development of basic proposal preparation including the coordination of all key strategic and operational areas, preparation and review of proposal and budgets, while ensuring adherence to the Decisions Right policy. • Prepares and modifies strategic proposal and budgets as appropriate to respond to RFPs and revisions, with assistance, based on SME feedback and proposal management staff. • Manages the RFP process from receipt to delivery, including identifying potential RFP barriers and/or their risks for completion while identifying and implementing effective and efficient mitigation strategies. • Obtains third party quotes as needed. • Ensures proposal and budgets align with RFP, client specifications and communications, and internal assumptions. • Creates, and finalizes budgets and contracts in accordance with departmental SOPs/guidance/work instructions. • Attend all relevant meetings and builds relationships with internal and external stakeholders. Proactively leads and facilitates client meetings as required to negotiate costs and terms by targeted client signature date.

🎯 Requirements

• Preferably two years of previous experience in project support, finance, contracting, or proposals in a CRO or similar environment. • Previous experience in proposal development is a plus. • Multinational and multicultural company experience is also a plus. • Basic knowledge of proposals and contract management principles, contractual terms, pricing structures, pricing tools and data systems (e.g. Salesforce). • Moderate knowledge of relevant software (Windows, Word, Excel, Outlook, Databases). • Bachelor’s Degree in Life Science, Business, Languages or equivalent combination of education and experience. • MBA preferred. • Fluent in written and oral English.

🏖️ Benefits

• Ability to work from home (partially or full-time depending on job requirements) • Ability to work irregular and/or extended hours as needed to meet the client’s proposal deadline