Proposals Manager; Remote

About Everest Clinical Research

Everest Clinical Research ("Everest") is a full-service contract research organization (CRO) providing a broad range of expertise-based clinical research services to worldwide pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device industries. We serve some of the best-known companies and work with many of the most advanced drugs, biologics, and medical devices in development today.

Everest has been an independent CRO since 2004 with a strong foundation as a statistical and data management center of excellence. Building on this foundation, Everest has successfully developed and established itself as a full-service CRO. Everest's headquarters are located in Markham Ontario, Canada with additional locations in:
Bridgewater, New Jersey;
Shanghai, China;
Taipei, Taiwan; and multiple offices in Europe.

Everest is known in the industry for its high quality deliverables, superior customer service, and flexibility in meeting clients' needs. A dynamic organization with an entrepreneurial origin, Everest continues to experience exceptional growth and great success.

Quality is our backbone, customer-focus is our tradition, flexibility is our strength...that's us...that's Everest.

To drive continued success in this exciting clinical research field, we are seeking committed, skilled, and customer-focused individuals to join our winning team as a Contracts and Proposals Manager
. This position can be based at our Bridgewater, New Jersey, USA on-site location, or remotely from a home-based office anywhere in the USA in accordance with our Work from Home policy.

The Contracts and Proposals Manager owns the end-to-end intake and delivery of project/opportunity proposals, enabling responsive and customer-focused solutions, driving cross-functional collaboration, input and review, and ensuring organizational goals and strategies are reflected. This role interacts closely with both external customers and internal stakeholders to analyze clinical research protocols and opportunity and client requirements. The role drives and develops on-time, high-quality, functionally and technically sound proposals comprising of project/opportunity budgets, written proposals, responses to Request for Information questionnaires, and ongoing iterations of budgets and contracts through to contract finalization.

The Contracts and Proposals Manager acts as a central bid leader to plan, notify, coordinate, and follow up with internal Everest solutions teams and external parties such as clients and third-party vendors. This role provides customized and proposal-specific budgets, responses, and delivery strategies as input to the proposal development process. This role also supports the coordination and execution of bid defense meetings, project contracting, transition of key information to project delivery teams (project handover), and may also support the development of change orders to existing won opportunities in support of the Project Management department.

This role will also support capability building for the proposals/contracts and business development function at Everest, support operational metrics reporting, and maintenance of centralized pipeline/opportunity and contracts tracking software and related processes.

• Plans, organizes, and implements the proposal delivery process from Request For Information (RFI) and Request for Proposal (RFP) or general request receipt through proposal delivery and handover to the project delivery team.
• Proposals may support biometrics-only services (e.g., clinical data management, biostatistics and programming) and full-service opportunities spanning Phases I-IV that involve all services required to execute a clinical study, including clinical project management and clinical operations, IWRS/IRT, ePRO/eDiary, pharmacovigilance, PK/PD analysis, Data Safety Monitoring Committee (DSMC) or Data Safety Monitoring Board (DSMB), medical writing, regulatory submissions, and other study-specific services.
• Interfaces with internal (Everest) and external (prospective and existing clients) stakeholders to…