Proposal Manager

Job Description
Cultivate productive working relationships with and among cost center managers and field office personnel, teaming partners, and customer contracting representatives.
Coordinate with corporate marketing and capture management staff to ensure development of winning proposal strategies.
Analyze and interpret RFPs/RFQs as released;
identify any specialty resource requirements/constraints;
and consolidate list ofcustomer hot buttons, innovative support services, team features and benefits vs. competition discriminators, and proposal risks to assist with making informed bid/no bid decisions.
Facilitate collaborative working sessions among internal support specialists, subcontractors, and subject matter experts/consultants as needed to generate technical and management solutions;
and support coordination of cost/pricing and staffing efforts as necessary.
Prioritize, oversee, and track development of multiple, concurrent proposals to include monitoring subcontractor support activities/inputs.
Provide hands-on proposal services as needed to include scheduling, annotated outlining, storyboarding, and section writing;
designing, revising, and incorporating meaningful graphics;
conducting reviews/recovery;
editing and re-writing as needed for readability, compliance, and effective incorporation of win themes and selling points;
and performing final compliance checks before submitting proposal files.
Convene debriefs and periodic lessons learned discussions to gather and share information on the team’s perceived strengths and weaknesses and to target needed process improvements and/or template enhancements for implementation.
Respond to ad hoc sources sought notices/RFIs and contribute to marketing briefings and other promotional materials as the need arises.