Drug Product Development Proposal Specialist

• Initiate local quotation activities once site selection has been confirmed.
• Review technical strategy from SMEs ensuring alignment with customers needs. Dialogue with SME for alternative solutions or scope when appropriate.
• Responsible for building the draft technical scope, high level timelines and price estimates for the bid proposal using current quoting processes, tools and templates.
• Where appropriate, working with the Legal / Contracts function to ensure that the accurate legal terms and conditions are applied to a given proposal.
• Ensuring that the appropriate proposal review and authorization have been acquired from site SMEs and management; this may include supporting deal pricing / margin discussions with Site Leadership.
• Support the Sales team on teleconferences or site visits with the client to confirm the technical aspects of projects are understood and priced appropriately together with gaining an understanding of the actions needed to progress a given deal towards successful closure and assisting / coordinating internally as necessary.
• Coordinating the transition of the project information with technical contacts & project management team for all awarded projects. This includes the timely "file dropping" of quoting information into Change-Point.
• Maintenance and update of SalesForce.com.
• Provide assistance to general enquiries raised by the Sales group.
• Work with Business Development Executives, Site Leadership and Project Managers to promote Patheon and ensure client happiness.
• Must be prepared to present and discuss quotation aspects and analysis to all levels of the organization.
• Participate in continuous improvements within the proposals process.
• Where applicable, performs job responsibilities in compliance with cGMP and all other regulatory agency requirements

• Minimum Bachelor level education (B.Sc. or Eng) or equivalent professional experience.
• Very good level of English and Italian language- spoken and written
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office suite (Outlook, Word, Excel, Power Point)
• Well organized, detail oriented and willing to work in a client facing environment
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work successfully within a diverse group of colleagues in various locations around the globe
• Ability to prioritize multiple tasks, projects and driven towards results
• Ideally hold pharmaceutical services experience, in a pharma development / technical role. Experience in other areas will be evaluated as well (medical devices, cosmetics, chemical).

Thermo Fisher Scientific