Proposal Manager

• Support pre-RFP planning with Capture Managers by tracking milestones, creating templates, and scheduling strategy and solutioning sessions
• Monitor targeted solicitations on SAM.gov, GovWin, GSA MAS, IDIQs, BPAs, and similar platforms
• Support White Paper development for customer engagement
• Assist with logistics and slide-deck development for customer meetings
• Support RFI and Sources Sought responses
• Lead the full proposal lifecycle for active RFPs/RFQs
• Track amendments and update proposal materials
• Review and interpret solicitation requirements, instructions, and evaluation criteria
• Create proposal management artifacts, including schedules, outlines, compliance matrices, kick-off slide decks, and storyboards
• Coordinate proposal contributors and maintain proposal schedules and milestones
• Communicate updates, activities, expectations, and timelines with internal leaders, contributors, and external partners
• Manage proposal activities through daily stand-ups and regular meetings
• Monitor progress, take corrective action, and escalate issues across proposal volumes and artifacts
• Use approved AI tools and processes for baseline content and compliance checks
• Author non-technical sections, proofread, and draft clear, consistent, persuasive content
• Ensure proposal templates and responses are compliant, compelling, accurate, and aligned with requirements
• Lead Pink, Red, and Gold Team reviews and guide reviewers toward actionable feedback
• Lead debriefs and retrospectives, capture lessons learned, and improve proposal processes
• Ensure technical solutions, win themes, discriminators, compliance, and requirements are reflected across proposal volumes
• Support proposal orals teams by coordinating logistics, scheduling and attending sessions, and providing feedback

Senior Proposal Manager

• Support pre-RFP planning with Capture Managers by tracking milestones, creating templates, and scheduling strategy and solutioning sessions
• Monitor targeted solicitations on SAM.gov, GovWin, GSA MAS, IDIQs, BPAs, and other sources
• Support White Paper development for customer engagements
• Assist with logistics and slide-deck development for customer meetings
• Support RFI and Sources Sought responses
• Lead the full proposal lifecycle for active RFPs/RFQs
• Track amendments and update proposal materials
• Review and interpret solicitation requirements, instructions, and evaluation criteria
• Create and distribute proposal schedules, outlines, compliance matrices, kick-off slide decks, and storyboards
• Communicate updates, activities, expectations, and timelines to internal leaders, proposal contributors, and external partners
• Manage proposal activities through daily stand-ups and regular meetings
• Monitor progress, take corrective action, and escalate issues across proposal volumes and artifacts
• Use approved AI tools and processes, including baseline content and compliance checks
• Baseline non-technical sections and proofread and draft content for clarity, consistency, and persuasiveness
• Ensure templates and responses are compliant, compelling, accurate, and aligned with requirements
• Lead Pink, Red, and Gold Team reviews and conduct reviewer in-briefs
• Lead debriefs and retrospectives, capture lessons learned, and improve proposal processes
• Ensure technical solutions, win themes, discriminators, compliance, and requirements understanding are reflected across proposal volumes
• Support proposal orals teams by coordinating logistics, scheduling and attending sessions, and providing participant feedback

• Lead end-to-end development and submission of federal proposals, RFIs, Sources Sought Notices, RFQs, task order responses, and other government procurement responses
• Support capture planning, solutioning, strategy development, and proposal readiness activities
• Analyze solicitation documents and develop proposal response strategies
• Develop and maintain proposal schedules, compliance matrices, outlines, assignments, calendars, and other management artifacts
• Conduct proposal kickoffs and lead status meetings, working sessions, and proposal-related meetings
• Assign and manage writing responsibilities across SMEs, solution architects, delivery personnel, corporate resources, and teaming partners
• Track activities, dependencies, action items, risks, and deadlines; escalate risks as needed
• Establish and enforce proposal processes, templates, artifacts, and quality standards
• Translate capture strategy, customer priorities, win themes, discriminators, and solution concepts into compelling proposal content
• Write, edit, and refine executive summaries, management approaches, staffing approaches, transition plans, past performance, corporate experience, and other response content
• Transform complex technical concepts into concise, customer-focused narratives
• Review content for clarity, consistency, responsiveness, persuasiveness, evidence, and metrics
• Integrate content from multiple authors into cohesive proposals
• Coordinate graphics, tables, callout boxes, organizational charts, process diagrams, and other visual elements
• Develop and maintain compliance matrices and crosswalks
• Validate page limits, formatting, file requirements, naming conventions, forms, attachments, certifications, and submission instructions
• Lead Pink Team, Red Team, Gold Team, executive, and final quality-control reviews
• Consolidate, adjudicate, and track reviewer comments
• Conduct final document reviews and manage final production and submission
• Coordinate with BD leadership, capture managers, solution architects, technical SMEs, recruiting, delivery, contracts, pricing, graphic design, and executive leadership
• Coordinate subcontractor and teaming-partner contributions
• Facilitate SME interviews and working sessions
• Communicate proposal status, risks, decisions, and milestones
• Support capture-to-proposal handoffs
• Maintain proposal files, reusable content, reference materials, and submission records in SharePoint and other collaboration environments
• Support proposal templates, past performance libraries, resume repositories, graphics libraries, and other proposal assets
• Maintain lessons learned and support post-submission and post-award reviews
• Manage RFIs, market research responses, capability statements, presentations, oral presentations, technical challenges, and other growth deliverables
• Support continuous improvement of proposal processes, tools, workflows, and SOPs

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