Senior Pharmacovigilance Operations Specialist - Budget & Proposals

Overview

Senior Pharmacovigilance Operations Specialist focused on budget and proposals, supporting the pre-award process for SPVG services from client requirements through to operational handover.

What you'll do

• Participate in opportunity strategy and planning discussions, providing SPVG input into the overall approach and proposed solution.
• Review RFPs, RFIs and other client requirements to identify required SPVG services, assumptions, dependencies, risks and areas requiring clarification.
• Work with SPVG leadership, operational teams and subject matter experts to develop client-specific solutions and delivery models.
• Coordinate input across relevant SPVG service areas to ensure proposed solutions are integrated, practical and operationally deliverable.
• Support identification of appropriate SPVG capabilities, expertise and team members for proposals and client presentations.
• Lead or coordinate development of the SPVG components of RFPs, RFIs and other proposal responses, ensuring accuracy, completeness and consistency.
• Solicit and consolidate input from SPVG operational teams, leadership and subject matter experts, working with Proposal Management to meet submission timelines.
• Develop and review SPVG scopes of work, assumptions, responsibilities, service descriptions and supporting proposal materials.
• Coordinate responses to client clarification and due-diligence questions relating to SPVG services.
• Ensure alignment between proposal content, scope, resourcing assumptions, budget and client requirements.
• Develop and review SPVG budgets and costing assumptions, working with operational teams to reflect anticipated scope and delivery requirements.
• Support achievement of SPVG financial and profitability objectives by helping ensure proposed solutions are appropriately scoped, resourced and costed.
• Support development of commercially competitive solutions while maintaining operational feasibility, service quality and alignment with client requirements.
• Support assessment of changes in scope and associated budget implications with Contracts, Project Management and other relevant stakeholders.
• Use historical delivery experience and operational information to support continuous improvement of costing and resource assumptions.
• Support preparation for bid defence meetings and other client-facing discussions, including presentation materials, key messages and responses to anticipated client questions.
• Participate in client meetings and bid defences as required, working alongside SPVG operational and functional representatives.
• Coordinate SPVG input into post-proposal clarifications and negotiations, including assessment of requested changes to scope, assumptions, responsibilities and delivery models.
• Support review of relevant scope-of-work and contractual content to help ensure alignment with the agreed solution.
• Facilitate the transition of awarded opportunities from the pre-award environment to the SPVG operational delivery team.
• Participate in project handover activities, ensuring the operational team understands the agreed scope, delivery model, key assumptions, responsibilities, dependencies and client requirements.
• Identify and communicate material changes made during proposal development, client discussions or contracting that could affect subsequent delivery.
• Support resolution of outstanding scope or solution questions during transition to the operational team.
• Develop, maintain and periodically review SPVG proposal templates, standard text, presentation materials and other pre-award resources.
• Work with SPVG subject matter experts to maintain and enhance proposal content, incorporating developments in services, delivery approaches, processes and technologies.
• Support ongoing review and improvement of SPVG estimating and costing approaches using operational experience and lessons learned.
• Identify recurring proposal issues, gaps and lessons learned and contribute to improvements in pre-award processes, tools and ways of working.
• Promote consistency in how SPVG services are described, scoped, resourced and costed, while allowing appropriate flexibility for individual client requirements.
• Share knowledge and lessons learned across the wider SPVG organisation to improve the efficiency, consistency and quality of future proposals.

Details

• Location: Gurugram, India.