Senior Proposal Manager - Federal

GuidePoint Security provides trusted cybersecurity expertise, solutions and services that help organizations make better decisions and minimize risk. By taking a three-tiered, holistic approach for evaluating security posture and ecosystems, GuidePoint enables some of the nation’s top organizations, such as Fortune 500 companies and U.S. government agencies, to identify threats, optimize resources and integrate best-fit solutions that mitigate risk.

We are looking for a skilled Senior Proposal Manager to own the cradle-to-grave proposal lifecycle for Federal opportunities, including RFPs, RFIs, RFQs, and sole-source justifications across DoD, Intelligence Community, and Civilian agencies. This role will drive compliant, competitive, and on-time proposal submissions while coordinating cross-functional teams spanning Sales, Pre-Sales Engineering, Legal, Contracts, andvendor partners.

GuidePoint Security is the trusted partner that defense and civilian government agencies rely on to lead their cybersecurity efforts and protect their organizations. We help solve their most complex security challenges, mature security architectures, and proactively reduce risk. Our purpose-built solutions ensure compliance, safeguard critical assets, and align security with organizational objectives. Backed by deep expertise, strong partnerships, and advanced technologies, we deliver scalable, adaptive capabilities that evolve with the threat landscape so Federal agencies can lead with confidence and protect what’s next.

• Own the cradle-to-grave proposal lifecycle from opportunity qualification through submission, including compliance matrices, outlines, contributor coordination, reviews, and production.
• Manage multiple concurrent Federal proposals with competing deadlines, ensuring quality and compliance with solicitation requirements (FAR/DFARS).
• Develop and enforce proposal schedules, assign action items, and hold contributors accountable to deadlines.
• Conduct proposal kickoff meetings, color team reviews (Pink, Red, Gold), and lessons-learned sessions after award decisions.
• Build and maintain a library of reusable proposal content including past performance narratives, corporate capability statements, and boilerplate language.
• Analyze solicitation documents to identify requirements and evaluation criteria and develop win strategies in coordination with capture and sales teams.
• Support the go/no-go decision process by providing proposal-readiness assessments, risk identification, and resource availability inputs.
• Coordinate CLIN mapping and pricing volume assembly with Account Teams, vendors, and contracts staff — ensuring proposal pricing aligns with technical solutions.
• Edit, refine, and organize technical and management volume narratives provided by subject matter experts to ensure clarity, persuasiveness, and compliance. This role is not expected to write technical content from scratch but must be able to shape and strengthen contributor inputs into evaluator-ready language.
• Partner with Pre-Sales Technical teams to ensure technical solutions are accurately and compellingly represented in proposal narratives.
• Ensure all submissions meet formatting requirements, page limits, file naming conventions, and delivery instructions per the solicitation.
• Track proposal metrics including win rates, submission volumes, and cycle times to identify process improvements.
• Leverage AI tools to improve proposal efficiency, content quality, and turnaround times.

• This role requires flexibility to work evenings and weekends as needed to meet proposal deadlines. Federal solicitation timelines are often…