Senior Business Development Proposal Specialist

Job Title - Senior Business Development Proposal Specialist
Location - Denver, CO (Centennial) | Muscatine, IA
Job Type – Hybrid

ABOUT STANLEY CONSULTANTS

Improving Lives Since 1913. Stanley Consultants has been helping clients solve essential and complex energy and infrastructure challenges for over 110 years, successfully completing more than 50,000 engagements in 120 countries and all 50 states and U.S. territories. Values-based and purpose-driven, Stanley is an employee-owned company of engineers, scientists, technologists, innovators and client-service experts who are recognized for their commitment and passion to make a difference.

The company garnered a recent Top Workplaces USA Today ranking and followed it with recognitions for outstanding compensation and benefits and work-life flexibility. For more information on Stanley Consultants, please visit

Are you ready to take your career to the next level with an employee-owned company that is committed to innovative growth and improving lives in the communities where we live and work? Stanley Consultants is an award-winning, interdisciplinary consulting firm providing program management, planning, design, permitting, engineering and environmental services. Recognized for its commitment to client service and a passion to make a difference, Stanley Consultants brings global knowledge, experience and capabilities to serve federal, municipal and industrial clients.

Stanley Consultants solves complex challenges in power generation and delivery, transportation, water, energy and industrial plants, building services and the environment. Since 1913, Stanley Consultants has completed more than 50,000 projects globally in more than 100 countries, including all 50 of the United States and its territories.

Throughout our history, Stanley Consultants has remained committed to a legacy of professional independence and objectivity. The commitment to private ownership, shared responsibility and reward has sustained us for more than 110 years.

The senior business development (BD) proposal specialist is responsible for working with the Federal market to drive and coordinate ongoing sales, strategy, pursuit and proposal activities. The successful candidate will partner with client service managers responsible for client planning, opportunity tracking, strategy development/implementation and pursuit strategy development within the Federal market. The senior BD proposal specialist will lead pursuit teams through the positioning, proposal management and interview stages.

Candidates must possess the ability to multi-task, meet multiple deadlines and time constraints, efficiently manage their time in a fast-paced, high-pressure environment and display an enthusiastic and positive attitude.

What You Will Be Doing:

• Leads the development and completion of strategic and/or complex proposals (including shortlist interviews) — primarily responsible for addressing client needs and implementing messaging aligned with the knowledge collected throughout the positioning phase.
• Coordinates, leads and tracks activities associated with the response of the opportunity from kick-off meeting through development and including the quality assurance process, production and delivery of the finished product.
• Actively participates in Go No/Go discussions and provides recommendations for Go No/Go decisions.
• Facilitates meetings and collaborates with team members to outline message components and develop differentiators, win themes, compelling text and graphic concepts.
• Communicates with market segment leadership to make certain action items developed during the strategy development and implementation process are completed to increase win probability.
• Creates and prepares client and pursuit specific collateral or materials for positioning meetings.
• Participates in the interview process to ensure all client needs and proposal themes are addressed, and that messaging is aligned with the knowledge collected throughout the positioning and proposal phase. Attend interview preparation and practice sessions (when necessary), coach interview team on presentation skills and delivery.
• Interviews technical…