When you join Turnitin, you’ll be welcomed into a company that is a recognized innovator in the global education space. For over 25 years, Turnitin has partnered with educational institutions to promote honesty, consistency, and fairness across all subject areas and assessment types. Over 21,000 academic institutions, publishers, and corporations use our services: Feedback Studio, Originality, Gradescope, ExamSoft, Similarity, and iThenticate.

Experience a remote-centric culture that empowers you to work with purpose and accountability in a way that best suits you, supported by a comprehensive package that prioritizes your overall well-being. Our diverse community of colleagues are all unified by a shared desire to make a difference in education.

Turnitin is a global organization with team members in over 35 countries including the United States, Mexico, United Kingdom, Australia, Japan, India, and the Philippines.

Proposal Writers combine strong writing, organizational, and time management skills to create winning bids. Detail-oriented and collaborative, they work strategically with SMEs (Subject Matter Experts) to leverage a library of RFP/Tender content, templates, and processes. They optimize proposal content repositories, ensuring efficiency and quality. Proposal writers are flexible, results-oriented planners with excellent communication abilities. This role primarily involves internal collaboration with teams like product, marketing, legal, and sales, with occasional direct customer or prospect engagement.

Key Responsibilities and Outputs

Proposal & Response Management:

• Understand the requirements and manage the end to end process for RFPs/Tenders and any procurement documentation
• Execute an intake process for RFPs/Tenders with Go-to-Market (GTM) stakeholders
• Drive each contributor to timelines and ensure completion of the proposal
• Utilize the content repository to complete the response where there are gaps in the available content, engage appropriate stakeholders to create the response
• Ensure proposal documents follow standard company formatting and quality standards including consistent branding for all company specific documents

Content Management:

• Provide input into the design of the content repository structure
• Continually optimize the repository structure to ensure ease of access, security and data integrity
• Work with internal stakeholders to maintain available master documents sets including templates, pre-written responses
• Proactively collaborate and promote adherence to processes with a network of subject matter experts (SMEs)
• Consolidate information provided by SMEs to edit it into a defined style, tone of voice, ensuring that it is clearly articulated and easy to integrate into a proposal
• Scheduling regular reviews of the content repository to identify areas that need to be updated/expanded

Product Knowledge:

• Maintain knowledge of our product set and understand the value proposition provide to our customers
• Understand how our products fall into the marketplace and with competitors
• Quality focused Continuous Improvement
• Good interpersonal and influencing skills
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and manage multiple priorities
• Ability to prioritize own workload
• Ability to work independently and perform under pressure to tight deadlines
• Excellent communication skills, writing and analytical skills
• Proactive working style with the ability to adapt to change

Essential:

• 2+ years experience as a bid writer, tender coordinator, or an equivalent combination of education and experience to successfully perform the key responsibilities of the job
• Organizational skills including accuracy, timeliness and detail oriented with the ability to work well while managing multiple activities and meeting established goals
• Excellent writing, editing and reviewing skills
• Excellent English communication skills (both written and verbal)
• Understanding of tender processes, Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) region
• Proficiency in Google Workspace (docs, sheets, slides) and Microsoft Office (Word, Excel)
• Higher Education level, or equivalent experience
• Ability to work local hours for the NOA/EMEA regions

Preferred:

• At least 2 years experience working with various departmental streams including Sales, Managers, Technical, Developers and Administrative staff
• Experience in Enterprise software/SaaS
• Multiple language knowledge (Spanish desired)
• Local compliance & registration for EMEA jurisdictions region extending to web-based portals, e.g. Spain, Italy, France

Total Rewards @ Turnitin
Turnitin maintains a Total Rewards package that is competitive within the local job market. People tend to think about their Total Rewards monetarily — solely as regular pay plus bonus or commission. This is what they earn in exchange for what they do. However, Turnitin delivers more than just these components. Beyond the intrinsic rewards of unleashing your potential to positively impact global education, and thriving in an organization that is free of politics and full of humble, inclusive and collaborative teammates, the extrinsic rewards at Turnitin include generous time off and health and wellness programs that offer choice and flexibility and provide a safety net for the challenges that life presents from time to time. Experience a remote-centric culture that empowers you to work with purpose and accountability in a way that best suits you, supported by a comprehensive package that prioritizes your overall well-being.

Our Mission </strong>is to ensure the integrity of global education and meaningfully improve learning outcomes.