Proposal Writer and Operations Specialist, Environmental Solutions
Location
Gurgaon | India
Job description
About The Role
Grade Level (for internal use): 09
Commodity Insights Environmental Solutions
The Role: Proposal Writer and Operations Specialist, Environmental Solutions
The Team: S&P Global Commodity Insights enables organizations to create long-term, sustainable value with data and insights for a complete view on the global energy and commodities markets. The S&P Environmental Solutions group provides innovative infrastructure solutions and services to grow environmental markets. This includes facilitating the implementation of new environmental markets, helping existing markets evolve and mature, enabling connectivity between markets and fostering data transparency and efficiency.
The Impact: This role will help the Environmental Solutions team win business by writing excellent proposals and partnering internally to deliver solid and consistent messages related to Environmental Registry delivery. It will also help streamline critical processes, run short projects, and achieve operational excellence across a number of different areas. The candidate will work in the Environmental Solutions team at Commodity Insights reporting to the Director of Project Management.
What's in it for you: This role will require working closely with the supporting Product, Operations, and Technology teams, as well as vendor representatives and clients, depending on need. The candidate will spend a portion of the time coordinating responses to Requests for Proposals (RFPs), Requests for Information (RFIs) and similar engagements with prospective clients, while also taking on projects related to process optimization. The candidate will possess strong communication skills in order to collaborate across internal and vendor/consulting teams.
Responsibilities: As an Environmental Solutions Project Management Analyst, you will:
- Play a central role in coordinating work streams focusing on monitoring and responding to RFPs, RFIs and similar engagements with prospective clients. Activities will include:
- Reading incoming requests for proposals
- Participating in kick-off meetings, strategy sessions and proposal project planning
- Reviewing and customizing RFP responses from the proposal content library
- Organizing and maintaining a repository of existing content to streamline formulating new responses and enable reusability of content.
- Collaborating with subject matter experts (SMEs) and proposal contributors, and reviewing and editing responses created by stakeholders from various internal teams
- Authoring additional RFP response documents and attachments, including cover letters, project plans, team org charts, etc.
- In addition, the candidate will own other operational processes (such as internal team onboarding and training, Regression and User Acceptance Testing, client migrations from a legacy to a new strategic platform, etc.) and manage all aspects of their development from discovery to implementation, to ongoing maintenance.
- Help the project team stay on track by following up on tasks, hand-holding escalations that will clear project bottlenecks, and managing critical project documentation.
- Create, organize and maintain project and product collateral.
- Send effective communications about status and progress to the wider stakeholder group
- Help management and project team leadership create presentation materials to communicate progress of various initiatives.
What We're Looking For - 3+ years' professional work experience in a proposal writing role, or project, product, process improvement role
- Exposure to carbon markets, environmental auctions, commodity markets; familiarity with ESG data and ESG reporting frameworks
- The candidate should have keen attention to detail, be highly organized, and grammatically proficient with written and verbal English.
- Excellent presentation skills, as well as strong communication and interpersonal skills to lead meetings with multiple, at times large numbers of participants.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office particularly Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
- Experience responding to RFP/RFQs, or working with external partners, vendors, or government clients.
- The candidate should naturally think from the perspective of the client at all times, and be interested in designing processes and solutions that fit the right audience.
- The candidate should have an interest in owning process improvement from problem statement all the way through to implementing a solution.
- Be a good listener with ability to shift directions quickly based on management decisions.
Work Shift: EMEA+2 or US East Coast
About S&P Global Commodity Insights At S&P Global Commodity Insights, our complete view of global energy and commodities markets enables our customers to make decisions with conviction and create long-term, sustainable value.
We're a trusted connector that brings together thought leaders, market participants, governments, and regulators to co-create solutions that lead to progress. Vital to navigating Energy Transition, S&P Global Commodity Insights' coverage includes oil and gas, power, chemicals, metals, agriculture and shipping.
S&P Global Commodity Insights is a division of S&P Global (NYSE: SPGI). S&P Global is the world's foremost provider of credit ratings, benchmarks, analytics and workflow solutions in the global capital, commodity and automotive markets. With every one of our offerings, we help many of the world's leading organizations navigate the economic landscape so they can plan for tomorrow, today.
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What's In It For You Our Purpose Progress is not a self-starter. It requires a catalyst to be set in motion. Information, imagination, people, technology–the right combination can unlock possibility and change the world.
Our world is in transition and getting more complex by the day. We push past expected observations and seek out new levels of understanding so that we can help companies, governments and individuals make an impact on tomorrow. At S&P Global we transform data into Essential Intelligence®, pinpointing risks and opening possibilities. We Accelerate Progress.
Our People We're more than 35,000 strong worldwide—so we're able to understand nuances while having a broad perspective. Our team is driven by curiosity and a shared belief that Essential Intelligence can help build a more prosperous future for us all.
From finding new ways to measure sustainability to analyzing energy transition across the supply chain to building workflow solutions that make it easy to tap into insight and apply it. We are changing the way people see things and empowering them to make an impact on the world we live in. We're committed to a more equitable future and to helping our customers find new, sustainable ways of doing business. We're constantly seeking new solutions that have progress in mind. Join us and help create the critical insights that truly make a difference.
Our Values Integrity, Discovery, Partnership At S&P Global, we focus on Powering Global Markets. Throughout our history, the world's leading organizations have relied on us for the Essential Intelligence they need to make confident decisions about the road ahead. We start with a foundation of
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Benefits We take care of you, so you can take care of business. We care about our people. That's why we provide everything you—and your career—need to thrive at S&P Global.
Our Benefits Include - Health & Wellness: Health care coverage designed for the mind and body.
- Flexible Downtime: Generous time off helps keep you energized for your time on.
- Continuous Learning: Access a wealth of resources to grow your career and learn valuable new skills.
- Invest in Your Future: Secure your financial future through competitive pay, retirement planning, a continuing education program with a company-matched student loan contribution, and financial wellness programs.
- Family Friendly Perks: It's not just about you. S&P Global has perks for your partners and little ones, too, with some best-in class benefits for families.
- Beyond the Basics: From retail discounts to referral incentive awards—small perks can make a big difference.
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Diversity, Equity, And Inclusion At S&P Global At S&P Global, we believe diversity fuels creative insights, equity unlocks opportunity, and inclusion drives growth and innovation – Powering Global Markets. Our commitment centers on our global workforce, ensuring that our people are empowered to bring their whole selves to work. It doesn't stop there, we strive to better reflect and serve the communities in which we live and work, and advocate for greater opportunity for all.
Equal Opportunity Employer S&P Global is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race/ethnicity, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, marital status, military veteran status, unemployment status, or any other status protected by law. Only electronic job submissions will be considered for employment.
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Job ID: 297227
Posted On: 2024-02-09
Location: Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India
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