Proposal Specialist IV

Senior Bid/Proposals and Marketing Professional

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This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced and ambitious Senior Bid/Proposals and Marketing professional to join our team. AECOM is looking for a Proposal Specialist IV to join AECOM's Federal Marketing team. Our clients include both Federal Defense and Civilian agencies, and you will have the opportunity to work with highly specialized teams across Environment sectors primarily in the USA. A successful Federal Marketing/Proposal Specialist has leadership qualities and demonstrates a collaborative mindset, superior communication skills, problem solving ability, organizational skills, and transparency. He/she is a strategic thinker and pushes the status quo for continuous improvement:

Leading winning proposals of AECOM service offerings to DoD and Civilian Agencies

This will be a hybrid position including a combination of both remote and in-office work schedules, that can be based in, but not limited to: Phoenix, AZ.

Job Responsibilities will include, but not be limited to:

• As part of the Federal Government Environment team, serves as a proposal manager to assist winning work to the Environment Business line (BL) and regions.
• Interfaces with business line growth team and operations to support the process of winning work. Leads responses to client RFI / RFQ /RFPs and applies standard pursuit processes to ensure efficiency in schedule and bid compliance. Responsible for print, electronic and oral proposal deliverables. Provides market research and competitive intelligence and leverages data systems and tools to support proposal strategy and business strategic planning efforts.

Qualifications

Minimum Requirements:

• + Bachelor's degree + 6 years of experience collaborating within a marketing team to lead and/or support proposal activity, or a demonstrated equivalency of experience and/or education.
• + Strong knowledge of proposal best practices and procedures, work processes, and tools as related to Federal proposal management of RFQ /P responses.
• + Strong working knowledge of InDesign as well as Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Adobe Acrobat.
• + Developed understanding of effective proposal and presentation writing and production.
• + Demonstrates excellent writing and editing skills, consistently applying strong attention to detail and a drive for continuous quality improvement.
• + Ability to produce accurate, compliant, and compelling work independently and with others.
• + Evidence of successful leadership.
• + Proven organizational and administrative skills, including the ability to complete varied work tasks on schedule, guide deliverable efforts by others, and manage documents and deadlines effectively.
• + Initiative, skill, and personal commitment to manage multiple projects and details concurrently, follow up, and bring tasks and projects to completion.

Preferred Qualifications:

• + Bachelor's in Journalism, English, Communications, Marketing, or a related field.
• + Working knowledge of and interest in the A/E industry. Knowledge of AECOM's projects, people, credentials, and competitors is a plus.
• + Working knowledge of collaborative tools such as Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, etc.
• + Experience with SAM.gov, GovWin, FedConnect, and SalesForce is preferred but not required.

Additional Information:

• + This position does not include sponsorship for United States work authorization now or in the future
• + Relocation assistance and/or per diem is not offered for this position
• At AECOM, we are committed to maintaining a secure and trustworthy recruitment process and take any fraudulent hiring activity seriously. To support this commitment, all newly hired employees are required to attend an in-person Day 1 onboarding at an AECOM office location as a condition of employment.
• Offered compensation will be based on location and individual qualifications. The expected range is $105,000.00 – $130,000.00.

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