Divya Chawla
Proposal & Knowledge Management Specialist
Dehradun
Summary
Professional with a proven track record of 6 + years in bid management and knowledge management, adept at driving successful proposal strategies and optimizing organizational intelligence.
Orchestrating end-to-end bid processes, from opportunity identification to final submission, ensuring alignment with organizational goals and client needs.
Leveraging advanced knowledge management tools and methodologies to capture, organize, and disseminate critical business intelligence across teams.
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
3
3
years of post-secondary education
3
3
Languages
Work History
Specialist
Jones Lang La Salle
12.2023 - Current
- Oversee and evaluate proposal/bid requests and associated documentation, examining them to identify and comprehend specific operational proposal requirements.
- Process RFP/RFI documents to maintain existing client relationships and attract new clients through various strategic methods.
- Manage projects comprehensively throughout the entire pitch process.
- Conduct pre-sales research and spearhead scoping exercises, focusing on key issue analysis, in collaboration with APAC business stakeholders to ensure clear alignment on deliverables.
- Craft responses by generating initial draft RFPs, sourcing baseline proposals from databases and libraries, then refining and revising content to deliver the most appropriate response.
- Contribute to the creation of bid presentations in conjunction with APAC business stakeholders.
- Creating RFPs & proposed presentations for real estate office leasing clients.
- Managing APAC Pursuits content library for baseline content and templates, to ensure all materials are regularly updated.
- Working with stakeholders across the region to define varied KM tasks.
- Expertise in developing & managing sharepoint sites to create pages, list & libraries.
Practice Administrator Content Management
McKinsey & Company
08.2022 - Current
- Partner with the team to understand client queries, draft accurate responses and provide expertise on private equity consulting services.
- Contribution in preparing proposals for various private equity clients.
- Responsible for designing proposal responses, scheduling all activities to meet client deadlines.
- Performed review of client's bid document and communicate requirements to other team members during bid cycle.
- Help private equity firms make better investment decisions at every stage of the deal life cycle.
- Supporting clients to evaluate the outlook and opportunities around potential acquisitions across all industry sectors and geographies.
- Sanitization/ Editing of DD's, Proposal documents, Case studies, Engagement reports.
- Strong Understanding of Tools like Microsoft Power point, Microsoft Excel, Sharepoint to promote Knowledge Sharing.
- Meta-tagging,Publishing, Archiving the content on PEPI Knowledge Vault.
- Working on Management of content like Quals, deliverables, case study, Proposals, Perspectives & Engagement.
- Working on content Gap Analysis, and finding out the best ways to fill the Content gap across various regions.
- Working with the Private Equity Team to curate the best in class content for the industry.
Knowledge Management Analyst
Deloitte Office of the US
07.2021 - 07.2022
- Preparing comprehensive bid packs & proposals while ensuring compliance with organizational and industry standards.
- Streamlined bid presentations processes and maintained repository of reusable templates & content.
- Contributed to strategic decision-making and improved bid success rate.
- Close collaboration with cross-functional teams to create comprehensive proposals
- Research topics with various research tools to summarize key trends, client issues and associated keywords/synonyms leveraging key research tools
- Provide ongoing status updates, project summary and progress to the curator
- Presenting Cyber and other industry related content on Large forums
- Handle overall business understanding, taking up onboarding and training of new members in the team
- Also involved with CLP team to ensure effective learning with the Knowledge Services
- Optimizing search reports & Dashboards to identify the most used Keywords to grab the right audience for the KX Portal.
- Analyzing client internal dashboards to gauge the best in class content such as proposals, Engagements, Qualifications & Deliverables treated as Assets.
Research Associate
Unimrkt Research
10.2020 - 07.2021
- Validated incoming data to check information accuracy and integrity while independently locating and correcting concerns
- Gathered, arranged and corrected research data to create representative graphs and charts highlighting results for presentations.
- Streamlined research processes to meet tight deadlines for multiple projects.
- Helped team meet regulatory requirements by coordinating documentation and filings.
- Completed exhaustive research into Technology using databases, physical records and digital resources.
- Extensively using various Research Tools like Factiva, Zoom info, Hoovers, Guru focus & Google advanced search to Gather Data across various research projects.
- Involved in Company & Business Profiling.
Market Research Analyst
High Beam Global
08.2019 - 08.2020
- Gathered, arranged and corrected research data to create representative graphs and charts highlighting results for presentations
- Streamlined research processes to meet tight deadlines for multiple projects
- Collaborated with leadership team to identify relevant questions and determine best methods of collection
- Distilled large amounts of information and produced reports, spreadsheets and documents outlining key details
- Created and presented real-time reports on current market conditions to upper management
- Utilized different tools to analyze marketing and financial trends and suggested measures to reduce costs and improve business processes
- Analyzed survey data and generated insights by importing data sheets from survey projects into survey analysis software
- Forecasted and tracked marketing and sales trends by thoroughly analyzing collected data.
Education
Associate of Arts - Economics Honors
Panjab University
07.2016 - 07.2019
Skills
Flexible and Adaptable
Bid Management
Project Management
Secondary Research
Knowledge Management
Content Curation
Sharepoint
Microsoft Tools
Team Player
Communication
Presentation
Accomplishments
- Rewarded with Spot Award at Deloitte for collaborating with team in the development of Cyber Collection
- Awarded with Special Excellence for outstanding Monthly performance at High Beam Global.
Languages
Advanced,5,Elementary,2,Advanced,5
Timeline
Specialist
Jones Lang La Salle
12.2023 - Current
Practice Administrator Content Management
McKinsey & Company
08.2022 - Current
Knowledge Management Analyst
Deloitte Office of the US
07.2021 - 07.2022
Research Associate
Unimrkt Research
10.2020 - 07.2021
Market Research Analyst
High Beam Global
08.2019 - 08.2020
Associate of Arts - Economics Honors
Panjab University
07.2016 - 07.2019