Senior Proposal Manager

About Bodwé Group Companies

Bodwé is the Professional Services Group of Mno-Bmadsen, the investment enterprise and a wholly owned instrumentality of the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi. We are architects, planners, consultants, designers, engineers, scientists, and federal contractors, committed to growing the economy and legacy of the Pokagon Band and supporting its more than 6,000 citizens. We provide value by integrating expertise across the natural and built environment lifecycle—from pre-development and planning to design, procurement, construction, and operations.

By integrating expertise across architecture, engineering, construction, and facility management, we deliver holistic, end-to-end solutions that drive efficiency and deliver distinctive outcomes.

The Senior Proposal Manager role is responsible for owning the RFP, RFI, RFQ, working directly with Capture to final submission to the government. This role develops, manages, and records technical aspects of the project, working closely with the BD Capture team, project coordinators, and internal/external SMEs. You own the management, organization, compliance, and quality of proposal content, price-to-win strategies, conceptual designs, presentations, graphics development, and production.

This position is responsible for multiple concurrent submission deliverables, CRM maintenance and organization, file organization, writing, editing, and QA of submission documents. This position serves as a mentor to junior level staff on the team.

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• Manages highly complex RFPs and IDIQs.
• Develops pre-proposal tools and documentation including compliance matrices, proposal outlines; assigns pre-proposal activities and reviews to in-house SMEs, and teaming partners.
• Write or initiate development of content for proposals (such as technical approach, staffing plan, past performance, resumes, etc.) and other promotional materials or client deliverables.
• Create other proposal elements (i.e., graphics, charts, tables, appendices) in support of proposal development.
• Follow and manage Shipley process for proposal color team reviews.
• Coordinate and communicate clear requirements to the Graphic Designer for compelling graphics for proposals.
• Coordinate with decentralized staff to solicit feedback and content for proposals.
• Enhance text received from other members of the team as needed.
• Conduct research as needed into federal clients, teaming partners, and competitors to enhance our competitive advantage.
• Write, edit or re-write portions of technical documents to improve flow, organization, and content.
• Understand bid strategies as they evolve; develop methods for integrating/capturing the final bid strategy in the proposal.
• Ensure proposal outline/formatting complies with solicitation requirements.
• Own final document from a format, compliance, and quality standpoint.
• Develop and maintain cloud content library for proposal materials and ensure the information is organized and current, developing an appropriate metadata tagging taxonomy to help content contributors find relevant content easily and quickly.
• Maintain past performance library and ensure that past performance templates remain current in close coordination with delivery project leads.
• Participate in other business development requirements such as opportunity tracking, pipeline management, and staff training on proposal methodology.
• Be highly organized and administer activities such as calendar development, scheduling meetings, consolidating feedback, and developing weekly communications on key opportunities.

Bachelor's degree or higher in Business, English, Journalism, Communications, or a related field.

• 7-10 years of federal proposal experience
• Minimum of 1 year of people management experience
• Experience working…