Proposal Specialist

ARITE is looking for a qualified RFx Bid Manager for one of its clients located in Remote USA

A cloud-based software company that provides customer relationship management (CRM) solutions. It helps businesses manage customer interactions, sales, marketing, service, and analytics through a suite of tools.

Established in the Year 2000, VARITE is an award-winning minority business enterprise providing global consulting & staffing services to Fortune 1000 companies and government agencies. With 850+ global consultants, VARITE is committed to delivering excellence to its customers by leveraging its global experience and expertise in providing comprehensive scientific, engineering, technical, and non-technical staff augmentation and talent acquisition services.

The RFx COE Bid Manager is responsible for leading the development and management of public sector proposals in response to RFx/Tender requirements Public Sector rules and regulations. This critical role encompasses the entire bid lifecycle—from strategic planning through final submission—and is responsible for creating compelling, compliant content, coordinating seamlessly with all internal and external stakeholders, and driving process excellence by developing and maintaining the necessary proposal processes and content libraries.

• The Global RFx Center of Excellence (COE) requires immediate, experienced capacity to provide bid management services.
• Securing experienced bid managers is essential to mitigate unnecessary program risk and avoid delays in strategic markets. This capacity will focus on the core deliverables of the RFx COE:

• Be a subject matter expert for all processes unique to the public sector marketplace related to formal RFx responses and other proposals.
• Responsible for the bid management and content response development of tenders, requests for information (RFIs), requests for proposals (RFPs), and other procurement documents and unsolicited proposals for SaaS/PaaS solutions covering public sector, education, and nonprofits lines of business.
• Support large-scale, complex RFx efforts that include multiple cross-functional teams and team members internally as well as multiple bidders and bid team processes.
• Participate in the analysis of opportunities as a team and Go/No Go decision process.
• Develop bid/response plans and schedules for all phases of the bid/proposal development process, juggling multiple RFx response efforts and deadlines.
• Handle/track all aspects of content preparation, revision, and submission; collaborate and coordinate inputs from sales, solution engineering, security, legal, and compliance teams; coordinate and communicate with responding partners where required; and coordinate internal content reviews with executive management and legal.
• Structure, write, edit, and format all types of response content (general, functional, technical), tailoring the content around the customer requirements, in a creative, compelling, and compliant manner.
• Participate in the development of written questions to seek clarification from procurement officials throughout the procurement process, and remain current on all amendments and modifications.
• Review and understand customer requirements. Conceptualize and write compelling response content using a proposal boilerplate library and AI tools and developing from scratch as required.
• Create proposal response policies and process and enable the Sales, Solution Engineering and other teams on the process.
• Curate and create RFx content to ensure content is current and fit for local market…