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Business line Consulting City Zurich Experience level Experienced Working time percentage 80% - 100% Date published 08-Jun-2021 Req # 5968

Job description

About Deloitte
Deloitte is a leading global accounting and consulting company, with approximately 312’000 people in 150 countries and territories. In Switzerland, we provide industry-specific services in the areas of Audit & Assurance, Consulting, Financial Advisory, Risk Advisory and Tax & Legal. With more than 2'000 employees at six locations in Basel, Berne, Geneva, Lausanne, Lugano and Zurich, we serve companies and organisations of all legal forms and sizes in all industry sectors.

 

We are international, entrepreneurial and growing fast. Grow your career with us! 

Deloitte is one of the world's leading auditing and advisory firms in the areas of Audit and Risk Advisory, Tax, Consulting and Financial Advisory. In Switzerland, we have offices in Zurich, Bern, Basel, Geneva, Lausanne and Lugano.

To support the growth of the company we are continuously looking for talented Pursuit experts: the Pursuit Center of Excellence (PCoE) is established to support priority opportunities across Switzerland and to improve the quality, consistency and speed of response for the proposals across our Consulting business. We challenge to truly differentiate with a thoroughly crafted pursuit strategy and oversee a high quality execution. This ensures we showcase Consulting in a way that is accurate, current, and relevant whilst reducing the effort required by bid teams in terms of time and resources.

What you can expect from us

Opportunity to learn, grow and further develop your skills

Your responsibilities

As a Junior Pursuit Lead, you wear many hats. Supporting the Pursuit Coach and Lead in coordinating and driving the bid forward, you are a multi-tasker and can handle a variety of jobs at once. You make sure the wider team has what they need, when they need it, to deliver a really high-quality bid. 

The role of the Junior Pursuit Lead centres on the project management aspects of the Request for Proposal (RfP) process, freeing the client facing service team to concentrate on critical problem-solving and Subject Matter Experts content. You will work in conjunction with a graphics designer and eventually coach to provide end-to-end support to the client opportunity at hand. You should be skilled in project and time management, an excellent communicator, and a pro-active self-starter who is flexible and pragmatic and can work quickly and efficiently under tight deadlines.

• Deliver a professional and impactful end-to-end proposal project management service to our client facing teams in Consulting throughout the best practice pursuit lifecycle and proposal process (e.g. set up and manage a pursuit SharePoint / MS Teams site, create, update and monitor a proposal task tracker, establish regular checkpoint calls, set reminders, and facilitate draft reviews with appropriate client facing service team members)


• Ensure full and complete understanding of all client-provided documents, RfP requirements to be met, selection process, and evaluation criteria


• Enable alignment with key internal compliance teams and sales processes


• Be pro-active in making suggestions to support client facing service team, leveraging best practice content and timesaver material wherever possible


• Develop a strong working relationship and collaboration within the other PCoE team members in Switzerland and wider European network as well as in the wider Swiss firm

Your qualifications

• Excellent communication skills both written and verbal


• Experience of working in a fast-paced and demanding professional environment; ability to work under pressure with firm deadlines


• Can-do, service-orientated and team-work mindset are musts


• Be able to pay attention to detail and quality is essential even under time pressure


• Passionate about continuous improvement and proactive identification of development opportunities


• Written and verbal proficiency in German and English (mandatory), additional languages are a welcome plus


• Excellent knowledge and confidence in using templates in both MS Word, MS PowerPoint, MS Excel, Power BI and extract reports from our CRM system (Salesforce)


• Excellent organizational skills and an ability to work independently, whilst maintaining contact with colleagues at all levels


• Consulting experience desire

Any questions? Get in touch.

We look forward to hearing from you! Please submit a complete application, including CV, references and degree certificates, using our online career portal www.deloitte.com/careers. Please also make sure you mention your starting date availability and your salary expectation in the cover letter.
We do not accept applications from recruitment agencies for this position.
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