Senior Proposal Manager

Riverside Research is an independent National Security Nonprofit dedicated to research and development in the national interest. We provide high-end technical services, research and development, and prototype solutions to some of the country’s most challenging technical problems. All Riverside Research opportunities require U.S. Citizenship.

Riverside Research is seeking a Senior Proposal Manager to lead enterprise‑level proposal operations in Beavercreek, Ohio. This role serves as the organization’s most senior proposal professional, responsible for planning, directing, and executing complex, multi‑volume proposal efforts for large‑scale lifecycle acquisitions, enterprise IDIQ vehicles, and high‑visibility task order competitions. The Senior Proposal Manager will oversee the full proposal lifecycle, shape proposal strategy in partnership with business development and capture leadership.

They will oversee and lead the proposal team to ensure consistent, compliant and competitive submissions across the enterprise.

This leader will coordinate and integrate activities across Riverside Research’s research and development (R&D) and mission assurance business units, and across all corporate service centers including finance, procurement, contracting, security, IT, facilities, business development, human resources, recruiting, and program management. Responsibilities span proposal planning and resourcing, solution and volume development, color team execution, and post‑submission activities including EN responses, and orals preparation.

The ideal candidate brings extensive experience managing complex Federal Government proposal efforts, including large DOD and Intelligence Community (IC) R&D, engineering, mission assurance, and enterprise‑level acquisitions. Candidates should have a proven record of developing proposal strategies, leading multi‑discipline teams, managing proposal managers and writers, and producing compliant, compelling, and fully integrated proposal products. A minimum of fifteen years of experience in proposal strategy development, proposal management, and proposal writing for formal Federal solicitations is required;

significantly deeper experience leading large, complex pursuits is strongly preferred.

• Proposal Team Formation - Lead the identification and assignment of proposal teams by analyzing pre‑solicitation and solicitation artifacts (historic RFPs, DRFPs, industry day materials, Q&A matrices, amendments) to determine resource requirements and align technical, management, financial, contracting, IT, facilities, security, HR, graphics, and recruiting stakeholders to the pursuit.
• Solution & Strategy Development - Partner with capture leadership to shape and refine R&D and mission‑assurance solutions, organizing key technical and management points into coherent strategies, win themes, strengths with evidence, discriminators, value propositions, differentiators, competitive ghosting opportunities, and integrated volume messaging for DOD and IC solicitations.
• Proposal Strategy Leadership - Direct proposal strategy development by determining which BD and capture outputs evolve into core proposal messages, refining strengths and weaknesses, and elevating the most resonant capture insights into focused, defensible win themes across all volumes.
• Proposal Management Planning - Develop comprehensive proposal management plans by integrating capture artifacts, structuring solution storyboards, and preparing formal response frameworks for RFIs, Sources Sought notices, RFPs, and prototype proposal requests.
• Compliance Management - Oversee formal and expanded compliance matrices to guide section development, identify compliance gaps,…