Proposal Manager; Federal Contracting

OMG Federal is a family of companies owned by the Otoe Missouria Group, (OMG), a tribally owned business dedicated to delivering high-quality solutions across a range of industries. Our companies support federal, commercial, and tribal clients with expert program management, project oversight, and numerous other services.

We are seeking a highly organized, energetic, and accountable Proposal Manager to lead and manage the development of high-quality federal proposal responses. This remote role is ideal for a self-starter who can manage multiple priorities, pivot quickly as requirements and capture strategies evolve, and work closely with Business Development to help the company achieve its fiscal-year growth goals.

The Proposal Manager will manage the full proposal lifecycle for Requests for Proposals (RFPs), Requests for Information (RFIs), Sources Sought notices, task-order opportunities, and sole-source proposals. The successful candidate will bring strong federal contracting experience, excellent technical and business writing skills, a disciplined approach to compliance and risk management, and the ability to coordinate contributors across a fast-moving small-business environment.

• Manage proposal development from opportunity qualification and bid/no-bid evaluation through submission, debriefing, and lessons learned.
• Partners closely with Business Development, operations, subject-matter experts, executives, teaming partners, and pricing personnel to develop compliant, compelling, and timely submissions.
• Review solicitations and customer requirements; create and maintain compliance matrices, proposal outlines, proposal schedules, responsibility assignments, and submission checklists.
• Organize and lead proposal kickoff meetings, color-team reviews, status meetings, and final submission readiness reviews.
• Manage proposal calendars, production schedules, internal deadlines, review cycles, approvals, and deliverables to ensure on-time submission.
• Develop, edit, and integrate proposal content, including management approaches, technical narratives, executive summaries, staffing plans, transition plans, past performance, and corporate experience.
• Ensure proposal responses are fully compliant with solicitation instructions, evaluation criteria, page limitations, formatting requirements, submission requirements, and customer expectations.
• Coordinate the preparation and formatting of key personnel resumes, including alignment with labor categories, minimum qualifications, solicitation requirements, and proposed roles.
• Support development of RFP, RFQ, RFI, Sources Sought, sole-source, task-order, and other federal proposal responses.
• Maintain accurate and transparent bid/no-bid information, opportunity status, proposal risks, action items, assumptions, gaps, and decision documentation.
• Identify proposal, schedules, staffing, teaming, pricing, compliance, and competitive risks; elevate concerns early and recommend practical mitigation strategies.
• Research and monitor federal contracting opportunities through SAM.gov, GSA eBuy, agency procurement portals, contract vehicles, and other relevant sources.
• Develop concise opportunity and capture reports that identify solicitation details, customer needs, contract vehicle, set-aside status, estimated value, key dates, incumbent information when available, competitive considerations, and recommended next actions.
• Use Gov Dash or comparable AI-enabled tools to support opportunity identification, solicitation analysis, capture planning, compliance reviews, and proposal development.
• Support capture and business-development efforts by researching target agencies, customers, procurement trends, incumbents, competitors, and upcoming recompetes.
• Maintain proposal templates, boilerplate, past-performance files, resume libraries, compliance tools, and lesson-learned materials to improve proposal quality and efficiency.
• Work in step with Business Development and company leadership to maintain a qualified pipeline and advance opportunities that align with OMG Federal's strategic objectives.

• A high school diploma is required; a bachelor's degree in a related field is strongly desired.
• Five (5) to seven (7) years of experience in federal proposal management, proposal coordination, capture support, business development is required.
• Required experience supporting federal proposals for government agencies, including responses to RFPs, RFQs, RFIs, Sources Sought…