Sr. Proposal Manager

Overview

About Us

Working across the globe, V2X builds smart solutions designed to integrate physical and digital infrastructure from base to battlefield. We bring 120 years of successful mission support to improve security, streamline logistics, and enhance readiness. Aligned around a shared purpose, our $3.9B company and 16,000 people work alongside our clients, here and abroad, to tackle their most complex challenges with integrity, respect, responsibility, and professionalism.

What You ll Do:

+ + Responsible for leading the proposal team in planning, preparation, training, development, production, and submittal of the proposal response. Responsible for the overall management of specific proposal volumes or total proposal efforts for assigned new business opportunity(s) and/or competitive renewal(s) of current contract(s). Provides management coordination with corporate staff departments, appropriate operations (project) management, and the other assigned business development resources.

Responsible for RFP compliance throughout the proposal process. Supervises activities of, and coordinates with, technical specialists, writers, production personnel, and others assigned to the proposal team.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manages and directs all management, technical, and compliance efforts on assigned proposals.
• Manages and directs personnel assigned to the proposal team to ensure that all management, technical, contractual, and costing inputs meet both customer and Vectrus Management requirements.
• Manages strict compliance with RFP requirements using scheduled reviews and compliance tools, including compliance matrices.
• Maintains schedule discipline for all assigned proposals.
• Ensures comprehensive reviews of written material IAW Vectrus Business Development policy and good business practices.
• Participates with the Capture Team to develop the overall proposal strategy, themes, discriminators, and operations concept to be used in the proposal.
• Determines a specific approach to ensure a responsive and competitive proposal in terms of the overall concept.
• Prepares proposal plan, including detailed proposal outline, storyboards/mock-ups (if applicable), compliance with RFP, management and technical volumes, proposal responsibilities, schedule, and submittal checklist.
• In coordination with the Capture Manager, prepares proposal strategy, discriminators, and themes.
• In coordination with the Capture Manager, conducts a short training program as part of the proposal kickoff detailing the proposal process strategy, discriminators, themes, charts and benefits to be employed throughout the proposal.
• Reviews input from technical writers and subject matter experts to ensure RFP and win themes meet compliance and provides feedback.
• Provides input to review teams and ensures incorporation of approved Red and Gold Team comments/recommendations.
• Responsible for the overall proposal and overall management, and complete technical, management, and cost/price proposals for assigned efforts. Responsible for overall quality and compliance of the submitted proposal.
• Instills partnership and teamwork with Capture Managers and the entire proposal team.
• Complete all classification markings as required to include portion markings.
• Ability to work with a variety of interesting and charismatic personnel.
• Ability to manage multiple proposal efforts simultaneously.
• Prepare a regular status of current assignments (oral and written).
• This is a hybrid position that requires working in the office and/or a SCIF. ~30% in office/SCIF as required.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience from which comparable knowledge and job skills can be obtained.
• Experience:
  
  Minimum of ten (10) years’ progressive experience in a position related to the development of federal government contracts.
• Experience managing large-scale, complex, high-dollar value programs/efforts for large businesses.
• Experience working with and managing large teams, including team members from other companies.
• Minimum of five (5) years’ experience in support of classified bids up to the TS/SCI level.
• US citizenship required.
• Top Secret security…