Business Development Specialist

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Within Lyft, the Lyft Urban Solutions (LUS) team delivers micromobility solutions. Our Montreal office is the birthplace of North America's first automated bike-share system, Bixi, which has since revolutionized urban mobility. Today, our pioneering solutions are deployed in more than 50 cities worldwide, including Barcelona, Bogota, Boston, Buenos Aires, Chicago, Dubai, London, Madrid, Mexico City, Montreal, New York, Rio de Janeiro, San Francisco, and Washington DC. 

The Business Development Specialist will be a part of the LUS Enterprise Business Intelligence & Bid Management (BIBM) Team that plays a critical part in early stages of the sales process by analyzing the market, identifying key upcoming opportunities, and spearheading the cross-functional effort with internal and external stakeholders to prepare for and deliver winning proposals for public procurements. The Business Development Specialist will be responsible for driving project management across key bid deliverables and delivering written content for bids. 

If you share our vision for sustainable transportation that empowers local communities, reduces our environmental footprint and brings people together, we’d love to meet you!

Responsibilities:

• Drive content creation and written proposals for public procurements to support winning bids.
• Ensure bid proposals are responsive to complex submission requirements and meet our process and quality standards.
• Drive cross-functional alignment to submit bid deliverables across internal and external stakeholders
• Project manage hardware and software demos to showcase our solution to current and potential clients and partners.
• Lead end-to-end management of bid submission for smaller scale opportunities to scale our growth in securing new market access.

Experience:

• 2-3 years of experience in proposal/permit/grant writing or other writing-heavy role
• Ability to organize, prioritize, and manage cross-functional stakeholders on multiple bids simultaneously
• Excellent written and verbal communication to effectively convey information 
• Interest in bikeshare and micromobility
• Ability to work under pressure and on tight timelines
• Highly attentive to detail
• Curiosity to understand and externally represent and sell our Lyft Urban Solutions product suite 
• Experience in writing public-facing document strongly preferred 
• Experience working with external clients preferred but not required
• Bilingual (English/French); Ability to communicate effectively in English (for dealing with English-speaking colleagues and clients outside of Quebec).

Benefits:

• Extended health and dental coverage options, along with life insurance and disability benefits
• Mental health benefits
• Family building benefits
• Pet benefits
• Access to a Lyft funded Health Care Savings Account
• RRSP plan to help save for your future
• In addition to provincial observed holidays, salaried team members are covered under Lyft's flexible paid time off policy. The policy allows team members to take off as much time as they need (with manager approval). Hourly team members get 15 days paid time off, with an additional day for each year of service 
• Lyft is proud to support new parents with 18 weeks of paid time off, designed as a top-up plan to complement provincial programs. Biological, adoptive, and foster parents are all eligible.
• Subsidized commuter benefits

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This role will be in-office on a hybrid schedule — Team Members will be expected to work in the office 3 days per week on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays. Additionally, hybrid roles have the flexibility to work from anywhere for up to 4 weeks per year. #Hybrid

The expected base pay range for this position in the Montreal area is CAD $57,424 - CAD $71,780. Salary ranges are dependent on a variety of factors, including qualifications, experience and geographic location. Range is not inclusive of potential equity offering, bonus or benefits. Your recruiter can share more information about the salary range specific to your working location and other factors during the hiring process.