Senior Proposal Manager Job Description Template
Our company is looking for a Senior Proposal Manager to join our team.
Responsibilities:
- Participating in the development and review of proposal strategies, themes, and solutions;
- Partnering with the Capture Manager to integrate the win strategy and solution into a proposal structured for compliance and ease of evaluation;
- Conducting regular proposal progress status meetings (Proposal Standup), tracking completion of action items, and maintaining the proposal schedule;
- Leading agile proposal development of large and/or strategically important GDMS proposals;
- Ensuring proper maintenance of proposal files and associated documents on the proposal team site;
- Creating the proposal outline, based on proposal preparation instructions and evaluation criteria, and using it to track progress and compliance;
- Serving as an advisor to upper management on bid and proposal (B&P) strategies;
- Establishing and managing proposal schedules, plans, deadlines, and progress;
- Organize and conduct proposal reviews;
- Align strategies to proposal outline and coach authors on how to reflect these in a compliant response;
- Assisting in developing themes and identifying discriminators;
- Coordinate and run proposal response stand-up meetings to report status and manage team tasks and priorities;
- Work with Sector leadership to monitor proposal budgets;
- Developing schedules, staffing requirements, and budget estimates;
- Ensuring that subcontractors understand their roles in the proposal and provide needed information.
Requirements:
- 12+ years of related proposal preparation experience in a government contracting environment experience;
- Bachelor’s Degree or Equivalent;
- Knowledge and experience using Salesforce;
- Experience with graphic design software a plus;
- Rigorous attention to detail and excellent technical writing skills including grammar, spelling and punctuation;
- 6+ years of relevant experience in proposal management, technical writing and responding to public sector RFPs;
- Strong comprehension, organization, and prioritization skills required;
- Solid time management and multitasking skills, with the ability to manage various competing deadlines;
- Establish and maintain the SharePoint collaboration site for each proposal;
- Facilitate collaborative solution development sessions and graphics workshops to develop key proposal themes and messages;
- Lead and analyze RFI, RFQ, RFPs and other bid documents for requirements;
- Coordinate and support the production, reproduction, binding, and packaging in finalizing the proposal submission and response processes;
- Strong Process orientation;
- Detail oriented with a strong results focus;
- Ability to be the internal and external point of contact, and brief team members including management.