The ‘must haves’ that will be core to your role:
- Securities Services/Financial Services knowledge – Operations/sales support/account management experience all welcome
- Previous experience in managing complex RFPs
- Excellent English language editorial/writing skills which allow you to develop a strong story that is commercially orientated
- Attention to detail
- Excellent communication skills
- An analytical mindset and ability to prioritise
- Experience juggling multiple demands where you had to leverage your exceptional time management skills
- Working experience with Word, Excel and PowerPoint
- Experience synthesising complex product and/or solutions into easy to understand content and messages
- An innovative eye for upgrading content and the style in which it’s delivered
The nice to haves – but not essential:
- Experience of Qvidian
- Any experience in sales/operations/implementation world
- Brand guardianship experience
Personal qualities that will stand you in good stead in this working environment:
- Collaborative nature/team player
- Determination
- Patience
- Willingness to ask for assistance
- Resilience
- Desire to constantly be learning and improving
Key Responsibilities
You will be the senior lead in Asia, leading a team who will be accountable for the development of RFPs/DDQs/Pitches/Exec Summaries. As an VP you will be expected to manage complex, strategic questionnaires yourself, in addition to providing guidance and escalation to the rest of the local team. As the cluster lead you will also be expected to promote best practices, train junior members of the team as well as look for ways to improve efficiencies. You will be expected to build relationship with stakeholders across Asia as well as working as part of the wider global team.
Running a sales proposal/DDQ or pitch includes some or all of the following:
- Driving or participating in project planning sessions with a focus on:
- Agreeing client solutions and key benefits messaging
- Determining SME participation
- Creating a project plan including providing clarity on timings and deliverables with the key contributors – including but not limited to sales enablement team, sales, product management, operations, subject matter experts and senior management
- Management of projects end to end (or engagement on) driving everyone involved to meet the client deadline - often requiring significant amounts of coordination
- Developing answers/content to ensure client questions are answered – potentially including re-writing/editing information received from other departments and liaising with SMEs to ensure the questions are answered in full and in line with agreed solution/messaging
- Ensure brand integrity across all content and documents
In addition you will be involved in strategic projects to support the broader team goals including but not limited to:
- Content development and improvement
- Data analysis to support business/segment growth strategies
- Senior management reporting
- Driving innovation – i.e. looking at new ways of presenting information/solutions/content or leveraging current tools in better ways
- Process improvements to support developing best practices
We are a team built of various levels of expertise and experience covering Securities Services and beyond. Our success is contingent on us delivering both individually and as a team and we work hard to share the workload and support our colleagues whenever necessary. You will also have:
- The opportunity to build deep knowledge of the Securities Services Business
- Support of an engaged and close team – our success is built on a cohesive team spirit
- Clear development plans to support your career aspirations
- The chance to use your skills to directly impact the business goals
Salary: Competitive salary and benefits package offered and aligned to experience.
Commercial Sales Support
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