Proposal Analyst Intern
Company Description
Zayo Group Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: ZAYO) provides communications infrastructure solutions, including fiber and bandwidth connectivity, colocation and cloud infrastructure to the world’s leading businesses. Customers include wireless and wireline carriers, media and content companies, cloud providers, finance and professional services and other large enterprises. Zayo provides customers with flexible solutions and self-service through Tranzact, an innovative online platform for managing and purchasing bandwidth.
Eligibility
The Zayo internship program is open to graduating seniors and current students. All internships are paid, full-time work experiences. All internships are from June 3* - August 9, 2019 (*start date flexible to academic obligations).
Position Description
The Proposal Analyst Intern will be responsible for keeping content up-to-date following new information and/or product announcements whilst working with Salesforce experts in the company to create reports and dashboards tracking team results, and ultimately managing individual proposal projects.
Responsibilities
The Proposal Analyst will have three main duties supporting the Bid Management team:
1. Reporting the team’s results
Gain a strong understanding of Salesforce reporting and work to establish reports and dashboards for the team
Create a reporting mechanism within Salesforce, and apply it to all past and current projects
Follow-up with Sales to include greater details of reasons won or lost
Chatter out results on a weekly basis to Zayo Group Sales
2. Keeping our content library updated
Familiarize themselves with the proposal team’s content
Work with content manager and team to develop a plan for proposal content release
Consolidate and update content based upon new company statistics, new announcements, etc.
Chatter out new content to Zayo Group Sales
3. Working on basic proposals
Analyze simple RFPs with the sales team, and develop with sales a response strategy
Assign responsibilities to team members and follow up to ensure they’re complete
Develop and manage team timelines, escalate if needed to attain appropriate response materials, design the proposal, and oversee final production.
Organize bid response material for future RFP submissions.
Maintain accurate records of each proposal for detailed reporting.
Qualifications
Must be fluent in English with strong written and editorial skills.
Excellent organization and interpersonal skills.
Microsoft Office expertise (strong knowledge of Word), Visio, Internet, and Adobe Acrobat.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
Flexible, proactive, self-motivated.
Able to work in a high stress environment, manage multiple projects with short deadlines.
Learning Outcomes
Understanding of reporting metrics, proposals, and bid strategies
Develop skills in proposal management, marketing, writing, Salesforce ,and project management
Gain industry experience, an education in telecom, and understanding of Zayo’s foundational role in broadband
Strengthen critical thinking, problem solving, and communication skills
Gain an expertise understanding of Salesforce
Exposure to a variety of networking opportunities
Rewards
Excellent benefits including 401 (k) and medical for interns
Fitness membership discounts
Internships are full-time (40 hours/week), paid positions with many converting into full-time/part-time employment pending a successful internship.
Nothing in this job description restricts management’s right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time.