Associate, Business Operations

Description Looking to join a passionate team dedicated to developing and manufacturing life-saving biopharmaceuticals? Avid Bioservices is a leading clinical and commercial biologics CDMO focused on creating innovative solutions to meet the needs of our clients and improve patient outcomes.   Your Role: As the Associate, Business Operations , you will support the end-to-end RFP, RFI, proposal, and change order process for CDMO client opportunities. This role is responsible for coordinating cross-functional input, preparing proposal materials, supporting pricing and timeline development, maintaining standard response content, and partnering closely with Business Development and internal subject matter experts to issue accurate, high-quality proposals within agreed client timelines. The ideal candidate is highly organized, detail-oriented, responsive, and comfortable working across commercial, technical, quality, regulatory, project management, and operations teams to support biologics development and manufacturing opportunities. Key Responsibilities: Support the intake, review, and processing of client RFPs, RFIs, questionnaires, proposal requests, and change order requests for CDMO services. Prepare proposal materials, including scope summaries, work plans, timelines, cost inputs, pricing support, assumptions, and supporting documentation based on client requirements. Coordinate cross-functional input from Business Development, Project Management, Manufacturing, Process Development, Analytical, Quality, Regulatory, Finance, Legal, and other subject matter experts as needed. Gather, organize, and format information into approved proposal templates while following established proposal standards, review processes, and client-specific instructions. Manage proposal timelines and contributor deadlines to support accurate, complete, and timely proposal issuance. Coordinate internal reviews, revisions, pricing validation, Business Development review, subject matter expert review, and required approvals prior to client issuance. Partner with internal stakeholders to confirm proposal assumptions, scope boundaries, deliverables, timelines, and commercial inputs are clear and aligned with client requirements. Maintain and update standard RFI/RFP response content, capabilities language, company descriptions, proposal templates, and supporting collateral to promote consistency and efficiency. Support proposal-related client meetings, internal review discussions, technical review calls, and follow-up activities by preparing materials, capturing key inputs, and coordinating next steps. Track proposal activity, status, approvals, and related commercial information in Salesforce or other business systems, ensuring records are current and complete. Support continuous improvement of proposal processes, templates, content libraries, reporting, and sales-cycle-related analytics as assigned. Minimum Qualifications: Bachelor's degree in…