Aramark Student Nutrition provides food and nutrition services to over 350 school districts in the U.S. It offers public and private education institutions a variety of dining options including breakfast and lunch programs, after-school snacks, catering, nutrition education and retail operations. We partner with schools to create culinary experiences that propel students to success. Our goal is to provide healthy, nutritional meals with a stellar dining experience for our communities. For more information on Aramark's Student Nutrition food service programs, please visit Aramark Student Nutrition.
This role is a key member of the Business Resource Center’s Pursuit Team, Aramark’s in house team focused on the development and delivery of high quality sales communication, support the global salesforce’s efforts to drive growth and win record levels of new business. The team is creative, collaborative and dedicated to fueling the growth of the company. Reporting to the Pursuit Director and having a dedicated team of 3-5 team members, the Pursuit Manager is the day to day relationship facilitator and strategic partner between Sales Leadership and an assigned set of salespeople and the Student Nutrition Dedicated Resource Team. They are the glue that leads the team that holds together the successful development and delivery of our responses to RF(x) documents and additional sales documents including, but not limited to, presentations, tour books, brochures, marketing collateral and menus.
The Pursuit Manager excels in developing strong relationships with their clients, facilitating effective communication, project managing, and adhering to proven repeatable work processes while continually working toward identifying opportunities for improvement in efficiencies, process, and workstream management. They are champions of process and work plans; obsessed with meeting the details of the bid schedule, they exhibit a sense of urgency and support their team of Coordinators as they deliver high quality documents. They thrive working independently and in a team setting. The Pursuit Manager is responsible for resource allocation, planning, scheduling, and workflow across the proposal team. A key function of the Pursuit Manager is to assure that the team is equipped to build winning proposal documents. The Manager ensures that all processes are current and looks critically at each step to propose and implement continual improvements; eliminating redundancy and inefficiency or highlighting areas of emphasized importance to the proposal team. Additionally, the Pursuit Manager manages the project intake process through Workfront as well as the BRCs content management system, Qvidian.
