Strategic Medicaid Proposal Writer

At Mercer, we make a difference in the lives of more than 110 million people every day by advancing their health, wealth, and careers. We’re in the business of creating exciting and rewarding futures for our clients and their employees — whether we’re designing affordable health plans, securing finances for retirement, or aligning employees with workforce strategy.

The Strategic Medicaid Proposal Writer will play a critical role in strengthening Mercer’s pursuit readiness, improving the quality and consistency of proposal content, and increasing the efficiency of our sales and proposal teams. This role will focus on pre-RFP planning and prewriting activities, including tailoring strategic, compliant, and client-centered content for future RFPs, RFIs, RFQs, and scope expansion opportunities. The writer will continuously build knowledge of GHSC, our services, clients, and industry best practices to develop thoughtful content that reflects Mercer’s differentiation, innovation, and value for specific clients and opportunities. This proposal writer will build strong working relationships with GHSC client managers, proposal peers, solution consultants, subject matter experts (SMEs), and the content manager to support business goals to win, expand, and retain business.

We will count on you to:

• Support the content manager in developing and refining reusable content that can be tailored for future proposals
• Partner with business and client leaders, proposal peers, and SMEs to understand client needs, identify content needs, outline key messages, and prepare draft responses in advance of active procurements
• Translate broad, reusable content into customized, client-relevant messaging that reflects Mercer’s value proposition, differentiation, and strategic positioning
• Conduct qualitative and quantitative research to strengthen content with client-specific insights, market context, and solution-oriented messaging
• Support pre-RFP planning activities, including pursuit strategy discussions, content planning, message development, and readiness reviews
• Develop content that aligns with internal quality standards, brand, style, tone, and commonly used industry and client terminology
• When needed, support active proposal efforts by adapting prewritten content into compliant and compelling final responses

What’s in it for you?

• We are the national leader in Medicaid consulting
• Opportunity to engage across Mercer to understand and deliver a depth of services to government-based clients
• World-class training opportunities for personal and career development

What you need to have:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
• Five plus years of experience in proposal writing, strategic writing, business writing, or related content development
• Strong project management skills, with the ability to manage multiple deadlines simultaneously
• Excellent oral and written communication skills and keen attention to detail

What Makes You Stand Out:

• Curiosity and eagerness to inspire others, investigate, learn, collaborate, and innovate, while bringing a positive, flexible attitude
• Demonstrated ability to work well across departments and teams
• Prior Medicaid or governmental proposal development experience

Mercer is a business of Marsh (NYSE: MRSH), a global leader in risk, reinsurance and capital, people and investments, and management consulting, advising clients in 130 countries. With annual revenue of over $27 billion and more than 95,000 colleagues, Marsh helps build the confidence to thrive through the power of perspective. For more information about Mercer, visit mercer.com, or follow us on LinkedIn and X.

Marsh is committed to embracing a diverse, inclusive and flexible work environment. We aim to attract and retain the best people and embrace diversity of age background, disability, ethnic origin, family duties, gender orientation or expression, marital status, nationality, parental status, personal or social status, political affiliation, race, religion and beliefs, sex/gender, sexual orientation or expression, skin color, veteran status (including protected veterans), or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. If you have a need that requires accommodation, please let us know by contacting View email address on click.appcast.io.

Marsh is committed to hybrid work, which includes the flexibility of working remotely and the collaboration, connections and professional development benefits of working together in the office. All Marsh colleagues are expected to be in their local office or working onsite with clients at least three days per week. Office-based teams will identify at least one “anchor day” per week on which their full team will be together in person.

The applicable base salary range for this role is $111,500 to $223,000.

The base pay offered will be determined on factors such as experience, skills, training, location, certifications, education, and any applicable minimum wage requirements. Decisions will be determined on a case-by-case basis. In addition to the base salary, this position may be eligible for performance-based incentives.

We are excited to offer a competitive total rewards package which includes health and welfare benefits, tuition assistance, 401K savings and other retirement programs as well as employee assistance programs.