WHY CHOOSE ECRI?
ECRI is an inspiring place to work. We share a common mission to help healthcare organizations make smart, compassionate, and ethical decisions for patients. Consider these additional benefits of joining the ECRI team:
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Industry leadership: We have a long history and proven reputation in patient safety and medical technology research.
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On-the-job-learning: You will have the opportunity to work with specialists across medical science, patient care, healthcare management, and technology.
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Comprehensive healthcare benefits: We offer medical, dental, vision, life insurance, accidental death and dismemberment, and disability coverage.
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Retirement Savings: Our employees can participate in an employer-matching 403(b) Retirement Savings Plan.
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Additional benefits: ECRI offers additional benefits to our employees, including paid time off and holiday pay, paid leave for parents, tuition assistance, employee assistance program, access to LinkedIn Learning, and other voluntary benefit programs (e.g. accident insurance, identify theft insurance, flexible spending accounts).
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Volunteer Program: ECRI Cares, our employee volunteer program, provides a framework for us to work together and make a difference in the lives of others. All employees are provided 16 hours annually of paid time to volunteer at preapproved ECRI Cares charities during normal business hours.
ABOUT ECRI
At ECRI, our passion for safe, effective, and efficient care is ingrained into the fabric of who we are and why we are here. For more than 50 years, the people of ECRI have been unyielding in their work to protect patients from unsafe and ineffective medical technologies and practices. Now, with the acquisition of the Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP), we have created one of the largest healthcare quality and safety entities in the world.
As a non-profit, independent organization, we utilize an unbiased, evidence-based approach to develop guidance, and maintain our principles of integrity and transparent work. Our ethical standards have led us to adopt the industry's strictest conflict-of-interest policies, and they are why tens of thousands of healthcare leaders worldwide rely on ECRI to guide their clinical, operational, and strategic decisions across all sites of care.
The Most Trusted Voice in Healthcare
ECRI is proud to serve the healthcare industry, from providers and insurers to government agencies, and medical associations. Our areas of focus include:
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Patient Safety: empowering leaders to eliminate patient harm through the dissemination of best practices, guidance, benchmarking, and recommendations.
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Evidence-Based Medicine: providing clinical evidence to inform and support decisions on the effectiveness of medical technologies, procedures, genetic tests, and clinical practice guidelines.
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Technology Decision Support: arming hospital systems with unbiased insights, so they can optimize their supply chain.
ECRI is the only organization worldwide to conduct independent medical device evaluations, with labs located in North America and Asia Pacific. ECRI is designated an Evidence-based Practice Center by the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and a federally certified Patient Safety Organization by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
At ECRI, our passion for the truth drives us to go further and dig deeper in our pursuit to advance effective, evidence-based healthcare globally.
The success of our organization relies on the kind of creative thinking that can only result from a diverse team of individuals. ECRI is proud to be an employer of choice with an inclusive environment for all employees. As part of this goal and in compliance with various laws and regulations, ECRI provides reasonable accommodation to applicants and employees.
It's what makes ECRI unique, and why we are the most trusted voice in healthcare.
POSITION SUMMARY
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The Proposal Specialist will demonstrate excellent interpersonal skills, the ability to manage multiple tasks at once, exemplary attention to detail, strong business acumen, and adept problem-solving skills. Must have the ability to coordinate with the client throughout the RFP processes to ensure that all the RFP requirements, milestones, and timelines are met. The Proposal Specialist will foster favorable relationships with existing clients, both internal and external, prepare documents, meet with internal business leaders and subject matter experts, sales team, and other cross functional departments as necessary.
The Proposal Specialist will focus on improving our RFP win rate by producing high level proposals that adhere to and exceed the stated requirements. Core responsibilities include generating incremental opportunities through an enhanced RFP, DDQ’s, and Security Questionnaire responses primarily for the Provider and Canadian Market to improve the win rate, coordinating with members of the sales team to ensure that proposals are presented effectively in a timely manner, and supporting business and proposal development process improvements. Maintain up to date external proposal “Responsive” system, coordinate content review with internal subject matter experts. Supports specific programmatic efforts and works in conjunction cross-functionally with the Government department by providing assistance to the comprehensive private and federal and state government opportunity identification, assisting with proposal coordination, writing, and providing administrative and business development support, interfacing with ECRI stakeholders (e.g., IT, finance, others) and non-ECRI stakeholders (e.g., prospective funders and partners, clients, members); and other duties as needed or required. |
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
Reasonable Accommodation Statement:
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To accomplish this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform, with or without reasonable accommodation, each essential function satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to help enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. |
Essential Functions:
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Research and identify potential clients or customers for the company’s products or services as part of the pursuit process. |
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Draft, develop, and finalize RFP, Due Diligence Questionnaires and Security Clearance Request responses to solicitations from clients |
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Timely Respond to Security questionnaires used by existing and new potential clients to assess their third-party vendors by using existing library of resources, working with Security Officer/IT department to update content periodically. |
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Work with different departments within the company to identify the appropriate subject matter experts and coordinate their contributions to the RFP response. |
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Conduct a thorough review and analysis of client RFPs and documentation to identify their requirements and scope of work. |
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Serve as the point of contact for any questions or clarification requests related to the RFP from the client or customer. |
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Ensure that the RFP submission is complete, detailed, accurate, and meets all formatting and submission requirements of the client. |
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Ensure RFPs are submitted on time and comply with all requirements and milestones. |
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Develop and maintain a library of standard proposal responses in Responsive system for future reuse. |
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Coordinate the delivery of completed proposals to appropriate parties. |
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Participate in post-bid analysis and assessments to identify areas for improvement in the proposal process. |
Additional Responsibilities:
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Search and identify proposal opportunities for US/Canadian markets including public and private bids. |
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Identify, review, qualify and quantify opportunities for ECRI’s products and services utilizing designated search engines such as GOVWIN, MERX, and other platforms as appropriate. |
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Create one-pager notification document synthesizing opportunities, analyzing and qualifying capabilities according to internal organization strengths and weaknesses |
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Other duties, as assigned. |
Accountability Metrics:
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Meet deadlines as assigned |
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Maintain high quality standards |
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Professional development: If recommended and supported by budget and management, participate in relevant webinars, conferences, and other virtual educational opportunities to grow knowledge base |
