Senior Associate, Pursuit and Proposal Specialist

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KPMG is currently seeking a Senior Associate, Pursuit and Proposal Specialist to join our Clients and Marketing organization.

• Serve as an engaged and responsive resource for pursuit teams throughout the audit sales cycle, contributing to significant, complex audit pursuits and proposals, with teams across multiple geographies and industries
• Execute best practices around purposeful, customized relationship outreach efforts for significant target accounts to cultivate new, and existing connections with a wide net of individual key buyers and influencers
• Support senior partners and core team members with strategic audit pursuit activities to articulate key differentiators, leading to a compelling value proposition; act as a liaison with firmwide resources and leverage available technologies to drive efficiencies and ensure high-quality deliverables while developing, editing, writing, and project-managing proposals from Request for Proposal (RFP) to close
• Build knowledge of the audit pursuit lifecycle to assist in winning work; assist in the cascade of innovative approaches and ideas within the Strategic Pursuits Group team, while growing knowledge of the audit pursuit journey, tools, and content needs
• Collaborate with colleagues from various disciplines nationally to bring relevant, valuable insights to team leaders throughout the audit pursuit process
• Develop relationships across the firm to help enhance the Audit Center of Excellence, enabling broader access to resources and data with a goal of increasing consistency in the application of messaging and pursuit strategy

• Minimum three years of recent demonstrated experience in proposal/pursuit management and project management; preferably within a professional services environment; experience in audit services, sales enablement, and/or client service experience is a plus
• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college/university, preferably in liberal arts, marketing or communications, creative writing, project management, or related degree
• Solid written and oral communication skills; ability to operate and make decisions based on detailed information, while working in a fast-paced environment and staying flexible
• Independent, self-starter, and creative thinker who is extremely motivated and comfortable sharing ideas, discussing constructive feedback, and providing hands-on tactical support with a strong client service and results-oriented mindset
• Capability to work collaboratively with all proposal stakeholders, including partners, engagement team members, editorial and graphics professionals, and offshore team members
• Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S. without the need for employment-based visa sponsorship now or in the future; KPMG LLP will not sponsor applicants for U.S. work visa status for this opportunity (no sponsorship is available for H-1B, L-1, TN, O-1, E-3, H-1B1, F-1, J-1, OPT, CPT or any other employment-based visa)

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