Location: South Africa - Johannesburg
Who are we?
Amdocs helps those who build the future to make it amazing. With our market-leading portfolio of software products and services, we unlock our customers innovative potential, empowering them to provide next-generation communication and media experiences for both the individual end user and enterprise customers. Our approximately 30, 000 employees around the globe are here to accelerate service providers migration to the cloud, enable them to differentiate in the 5G era, and digitalize and automate their operations. Listed on the NASDAQ Global Select Market, Amdocs had revenue of $4.89 billion in fiscal 2023.
In one sentence
In one sentence
The Business Writer is a member of the Proposal Expertise Center who writes and edits proposals, RFx responses, sales collateral, and supports the overall proposal process. Also works closely with the Proposal Manager, Sales Directors, and the Response team to help articulate the sales messages, structure the proposal and ensure the overall quality, consistency, and integrity of the written response. This role ensures compliance with Amdocs policies and standards.
What will your job look like?
You Will
- Provide mentorship to the Response team based on an understanding of the proposal preparation process and experience with previous sales projects.
- Work with the Proposal Manager to identify the documentation results and drafts, and maintain the Table of Contents. Assist with supervising the status of each deliverable and reporting on open issues.
- Set up and distribute initial draft response documents into which the responses are consolidated including responses to general business and vendor questions.
- Write and/or edit the Executive Summary in consultation with the CBE/SD to improve the business sales messaging content of the document, and add graphical elements to make the document more readable and compelling.
- Prepare the Executive Summary and Cover Letter in conjunction with the Bid-Response Specialist (with input from the Relationship Sales, Sales Leader, and others).
- Write the Cover Letter based on legal entity assignment provided by the Tax department and in consultation with the CBE/SD.
- Work closely with the Proposal Manager to draft the information in the Amdocs commercial proposals in accordance with Finance and Legal standards.
- Edit/rewrite technical, functional, delivery, and other related responses.
- Ensure that all collateral presented by Sales to customers is well-written and align with Amdocs style guide, standards, and legal and financial regulations, thereby communicating Amdocs in a highly professional manner.
- Coordinate the production and timely delivery of printed or CD copies of the proposal, including final quality checks, printing, binding, packaging, and shipping.
- Bachelors degree holder
- Proven experience in business writing in Sales environment.
- Effective communication skills, both written and verbal, for working with all Response Team partners.
- Problem solving.
- Organizational and time management skills.
- Native English speaker.
- Ability to work independently and in a matrix environment.
- You will be able to build valuable customer relationships.
- Ability to grow and gain many opportunities for professional development
- Join us in our growing organization, with ever growing opportunities for personal growth and one of the highest scores of employee engagement in Amdocs!
- We offer a wide range of stellar benefits including health, dental, vision, and life insurance as well as paid time off, sick time, and parental leave!
