Bid Strategist Project Manager

About the role

The Bid Strategy team at Staples is looking for an experienced professional to join our dynamic and collaborative environment. This role requires a strong process-oriented mindset, analytical skills, and the ability to drive improvements in bid processes and tool adoption.

Responsibilities

• Identify, prioritize, and document bid process improvements that enhance win rate, profitability, cycle time, and service-level performance.
• Project manage cross-functional bid process enhancements across Pricing, Sales, Product, Engineering, and Data teams.
• Translate frontline bid pain points into clear business requirements, prioritized enhancements, and measurable implementation plans.
• Prepare concise KPI readouts, issue summaries, and decision materials for Bid Effectiveness leadership and senior Pricing/Sales stakeholders.
• Support adoption, governance, and continuous improvement of PROS and related pricing tools used by teams.
• Own PriceRight self-service quoting training, feedback intake, enhancement tracking, and adoption support.
• Carefully coordinate operating rhythms that improve bid governance, win-rate visibility, SLA performance, tool usage, and consistency of execution across teams.

Requirements

• A process-oriented, analytical mindset with the ability to connect bid execution to measurable business impact.
• Strong project management and issue-resolution skills, with confidence coordinating work across Pricing, Sales, Finance, Product, Engineering, and Data teams.
• Financial and commercial acumen to understand how pricing decisions, bid quality, and operational execution influence win rate, profitability, and customer outcomes.
• Ability to identify process gaps, analyze performance trends, and recommend practical improvements that support speed, consistency, adoption, and governance.
• Clear communication skills, including the ability to summarize issues, recommendations, and progress for leadership audiences.

Qualifications

• Basic Qualifications: 3+ years of experience in pricing, bid operations, revenue operations, process improvement, project management, or a related field supporting cross-functional business execution.
• Advanced Microsoft Office Suite skills, including Excel and PowerPoint; experience using SQL, Tableau, or similar tools to track KPIs and identify trends.
• Strong organizational, analytical, and communication skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities and translate data into clear recommendations.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree, preferably in business, operations, accounting, economics, finance, or another analytical discipline.
• Exposure to process-improvement frameworks such as Lean Six Sigma or Kaizen.
• Experience partnering with product, engineering, or technology teams on business enhancements.
• Familiarity with PROS, PriceRight, pricing platforms, quote tools, or related commercial systems.

Benefits

We offer a comprehensive benefits package including:

• Inclusive culture with associate-led Business Resource Groups
• Flexible PTO (22 days)
• Company match 401(k)
• Physical and mental health wellness programs
• Online and Retail Discounts
• More!

The salary range represents the expected compensation for this role at the time of posting. The specific base pay may be influenced by a variety of factors to include the candidate's experience, skill set, education, geography, business considerations, and internal equity.