Proposal Analyst

Company:Mercer

Description:

What can you expect:

• Manage and coordinate complex new‑business bids, RFPs, and tenders for Marsh IMPACT.
• Produce high‑quality reports, literature, and presentations to support sales and retention.
• Work to deadlines and deliver within required timescales, collaborating with internal teams to ensure proposals align with the operating company’s positioning and client needs.

What is in it for you:

• High‑visibility contribution to proposals and presentations that support new business and retention.
• Cross‑functional collaboration with Client Managers, consulting teams, sales, marketing, and other stakeholders.
• Professional development in proposal, communication, and commercial skills; deeper knowledge of insurance classes and risk solutions.
• Career growth opportunities within Strategic Client Enablement.
• Inclusive, innovative environment that values best practice.

We will count on you to:

• Write original proposal and presentation content for RFP responses tailored to the reader’s needs, with oversight from senior colleagues.
• Review drafts from team contributors for clarity, conciseness, logic, flow, tone, completeness, accuracy, precision, consistency, and credibility.
• Participate in strategy discussions on operating company differentiators for specific opportunities.
• Research and integrate operating‑company information into proposals and presentations using internal resources and tools.
• Create templates for proposals and presentations following predefined formatting standards.
• Manage the proposal/presentation development process by developing work plans and schedules for typical RFP projects.
• Assess Requests for Proposals to ensure full understanding of submission requirements.
• Formulate opportunity strategy, working closely with Client Managers and consulting teams to identify client/prospect business drivers and create the optimal communication strategy, theme, and graphic approach.

What you need to have:

• Bachelor’s degree.
• Knowledge of relevant insurers, third‑party service providers, and their products/services; awareness of competitors and their strengths/weaknesses.
• Understanding of Marsh McLennan industry sectors.
• Excellent command of oral and written English and Arabic.
• Ability to handle multiple assignments simultaneously.

Competencies:

• Strong communication skills — structures content effectively.
• Well organized and efficient; able to work within tight timescales and contribute to business and team goals.
• Proactive, motivated, and enthusiastic with desire to develop additional skills.
• Commitment to best practice and market‑leading service and solutions.
• Very high attention to detail; sets own standards and checks own work.
• Team player — able to engage others to ensure objectives are met.
• Tactful and discreet; maintains confidentiality.
• Innovative — able to think outside the box and create new models and frameworks.
• Strong MS Office skills — particularly Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Excel.
• Knowledge of the full range of insurance classes.

What we offer:

• Competitive salary and benefits package.
• Opportunities for professional development and career growth.
• A dynamic, inclusive work environment that values diversity and innovation.

Marsh, a business of Marsh McLennan (NYSE: MMC), is the world’s top insurance broker and risk advisor. Marsh McLennan is a global leader in risk, strategy and people, advising clients in 130 countries across four businesses: Marsh, Guy Carpenter, Mercer and Oliver Wyman. With annual revenue of $24 billion and more than 90,000 colleagues, Marsh McLennan helps build the confidence to thrive through the power of perspective. For more information, visit marsh.com, or follow on LinkedIn and X.Marsh McLennan is committed to embracing a diverse, inclusive and flexible work environment. We aim to attract and retain the best people and embrace diversity of age, background, disability, ethnic origin, family duties, nationality, parental status, personal or social status, political affiliation, race, religion and beliefs, sex/gender, skin color, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

Marsh McLennan is committed to hybrid work, which includes the flexibility of working remotely and the collaboration, connections and professional development benefits of working together in the office. All Marsh McLennan colleagues are expected to be in their local office or working onsite with clients at least three days per week. Office-based teams will identify at least one “anchor day” per week on which their full team will be together in person.