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Strategic Pursuits Specialist

Strategic Pursuits Specialist

IOCOMidrand, South Africa
4 hours ago
Job description

What you'll do :

  • Pursuit Process Optimization and Enhancement

Develop, review, and update business collateral such as value propositions, statutory compliance documents, business overviews, and solution content to ensure professional and compliant documentation for strategic pursuits.

  • Assist and advise business units in the evaluation and qualification of opportunities to improve win rates and ensure efficient allocation of resources and time.
  • Guide business teams on methods, tools, and processes to identify and harvest opportunities from target market platforms, forums, and websites.
  • Provide expert advice and constructive feedback throughout the pursuit and bid process, including maintaining action plans, developing pursuit timelines with milestones, and designing client contact strategies.
  • Facilitate sessions to define differentiators, oversee proposal design and production, and conduct quality assurance checks on all client-facing documentation.
  • Strategic Pursuit Delivery
  • Lead and drive the pursuit process for key bids across industry groups and service lines to achieve successful business outcomes.

  • Implement and enforce best practices in pursuit and bid management, ensuring adherence to relevant Line of Business (LOB) or Business Unit (BU) branding standards.
  • Lead virtual and cross-functional teams to produce compelling, compliant, and consistent proposals across multiple business units.
  • Manage the end-to-end bid lifecycle for strategic and multi-BU bids, including :
  • Opportunity qualification and bid requirement identification
  • Resource and solution team engagement
  • Bid shaping and project management
  • Content compilation and quality review
  • Bid risk identification and mitigation
  • Pitch preparation and contract renewal strategy support
  • Opportunity and Pursuit Management
  • Oversee and interface with both upstream (capture planning) and downstream (contracting / handover) processes to ensure seamless opportunity pursuit.

  • Support and enable internal Bid Offices through training, masterclasses, and knowledge-sharing initiatives.
  • Reporting and Analytics
  • Prepare and present reports to management on key performance indicators, including opportunity identification, tender status, and pursuit outcomes.

  • Track and analyze strategic pursuit submissions, win / loss ratios, and feedback to identify trends and areas for improvement.
  • Identify pursuit process challenges and implement enhancement initiatives.
  • Manage pursuit and bid analytics to support data-driven decision-making across business portfolios.
  • Your Expertise :

  • Function-related Experience : 3-5 years of proposal, tender, and bid management as part of a team responsible for preparing and submitting expressions of interest and proposals, including the creation of high-quality visual documents for major opportunities.
  • Business Collateral Expertise : Experience in the development, review and optimisation of business collateral and value propositions.
  • Stakeholder Management : 2-3 years’ experience in managing stakeholders and senior business leaders throughout the pursuit and proposal development process, ensuring timely delivery of inputs and outcomes aligned with strategic pursuit objectives.
  • Leading Teams / Projects : 2-3 years’ experience.
  • Qualifications :

  • Essential qualifications :
  • Matric / Grade 12

  • APMP Foundation certification
  • Preferred qualifications :
  • Degree / Diploma in Business Management or relevant is advantageous.

    Other information applicable to the opportunity :

  • Permanent position
  • Location : Midrand
  • Why work for us?

    Connected Industrial Eco-systems :

    The organisation provides Industrial OT solutions to drive sustainability of our communities. With a community of specialist OT system integrators who span across all industry segments in Sub Saharan Africa and OEM partnerships we are able to Design and Build as well as Optimize Industrial connectivity. Connecting people with trusted information and insights to drive responsible use of the world’s resources.

    One of the leading Tech companies in the country :

  • The organisation fosters an inclusive work culture, we collaborate and solve together.
  • Great career development , an opportunity to work on great technology which creates value for our communities.
  • Values based organisation , with bold and courageous people centred leadership.
  • Opportunity to harness your skills and be innovative.
  • iOCO is an equal opportunity employer with an obligation to achieve its own unique EE objectives in the context of Employment Equity targets. Therefore, our employment strategy gives primary preference to previously disadvantaged individuals or groups.

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