Senior Manager: Proposal Center

Mayer Brown is an international law firm positioned to represent the world’s major corporations, funds, and financial institutions in their most important and complex transactions and disputes. We are recognized by our clients as strategic partners with deep commercial instincts and a commitment to creatively anticipating their needs and delivering excellence in everything we do.

We are a collegial, collaborative firm where highly motivated individuals with an unwavering commitment to excellence receive the opportunity, support, and development they need to grow, thrive, and realize their greatest potential all while supporting the Firm’s client service principles of excellence, strategic partnership, commercial instinct, integrated strengths, innovation, and collaboration across our international firm.

If you enjoy working with team members whose defining characteristics are exceptional client service, initiative, professionalism, responsiveness, and adaptability, you may be the person we are seeking to join our Commercial department in our Chicago office, as a Senior Manager:
Proposal Center.

The Senior Manager:
Proposal Center leads and oversees the development of the firm’s most complex, high-value proposals and strategic pitch materials, shaping how the firm competes, wins and positions itself in the global marketplace. This senior role acts as a trusted advisor to partners, practice leaders, sector leadership, and Commercial/BD&M leadership—driving pursuit strategy, elevating messaging, and influencing key decision‑making. The Senior Manager consistently brings a proactive, point‑of‑view‑driven approach and ensures best‑in‑class pursuit execution across the firm.

During a period of purposeful change for the Proposal Center, the Senior Manager partners with leadership to modernize processes, expand the team’s mandate and scale smart automation and knowledge assets across the team. The Proposal Center invites creative problem‑solvers to help define its next chapter. The Senior Manager converts innovations and operational wins into a firmwide roadmap that enhances pursuit excellence, process maturity, and business enablement.

The ideal candidate thrives in a hybrid work environment based in Chicago and influences stakeholders across geographies, balancing hand‑on leadership with strategic oversight.

Essential Functions:

• Leads and strategically directs end‑to‑end responses to pitches and proposals, with a primary focus on complex, multi‑practice panel RFPs
• Oversees and prioritizes key client account pitch activity and ensures alignment with client team strategies
• Chairs and steers pursuit meetings, including kickoff meetings, interim touchpoints, and strategy sessions
• Oversees development of high‑impact executive summaries and core narratives; provides coaching and editorial direction to team members and partners
• Shapes and enforces firmwide standards of storytelling, tone, messaging architecture, and client‑centric communication
• Coordinates visual storytelling in partnership with the design team
• Produces final submission documents, ensures compliance with all RFP requirements, and submits by the required deadlines
• Applies the firm’s style guide and brand standards to all materials and provides quality control for Proposal Center deliverables
• Coordinates cross‑functional inputs with partners, Business Development and Marketing (BD&M);
  Pricing;
  Content and Knowledge Management; and other stakeholders to align messaging and value propositions
• Serves as a senior liaison to partners and business leaders, providing insights into trends, client expectations, and competitive dynamics
• Champions and scales approved generative AI (GenAI) and automation tools, identifying new use cases and leading change adoption within the team
• Oversees the daily operations of the US proposal team, including supervision and training of junior team members
• Performs other duties as assigned or required to meet Firm goals and objectives

• Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Communications, Business, English or another liberal arts discipline required

• Minimum of 7-10 years of demonstrated…