Proposal Manager

Overview

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Job Description: As a Proposal Manager, you’ll champion the development and delivery of our most strategic proposals and task orders.

NOTE:

This position is OPEN to all 50 States, in addition to the targeted markets listed. You’ll be joining the Enterprise Proposal Operations team and work collaboratively with leadership, management, subject matter experts, creatives, and capture teams to win new business. This position will require you to adapt to changing priorities in a dynamic environment and work on multiple assignments in tandem, with overlapping schedules.

Simply put, we’re looking for a winner to drive our pursuit lifecycle, from kick-off to final submittal. We can’t wait to meet you.

• Lead development of compliant, comprehensive, and compelling submittals that are easy to score
• Manage, schedule, edit, and produce multi-volume Federal proposals task order responses
• Lead the proposal team’s execution of Parsons’ proposal process, proposal content, adherence to requirements and format, and managing our proposal team’s activities to create winning submissions
• Lead proposal teams in an encouraging, diplomatic, and collaborative demeanor
• Provide day-to-day leadership and direction of proposal resources with ability to communicate clearly with different groups and types of people
• Facilitate strategy sessions, kickoff meetings, tag-ups, color reviews, and other milestone meetings
• Work collaboratively with capture managers and leadership to identify problems and risks and quickly mitigate them
• Maintain, adjust, and drive proposal schedules

We’re looking for someone with strong, proven skills in the following areas:

• Time and people management
• Writing, editing, and document organization
• Interpersonal communication
• Customer service with a “get to yes” approach and mentality
• Organization, conceptual thinking, and attention to detail
• Effective decision-making
• Managing, organizing, and prioritizing multiple submittals
• Strong facilitation, leadership, and communication skills to lead capture teams through the pursuit lifecycle
• Ability to inspire outstanding work from team members with a range of experience and technical abilities in the development of proposal and task order responses

• US citizenship
• TS/SCI clearance
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
• 8+ years of managing and writing/editing multi-volume proposals and speed of light task order cycles that have resulted in Federal contract awards with values of more than $50M
• In-depth understanding of how to develop compelling and compliant Government RFI, RFP, and RFQ responses
• Capable of facilitating strategy and storyboarding sessions
• Experience developing proposal responses that include orals slides and video or live presentation
• Strong organizational skills
• Ability and willingness to travel 20-30% of the year

• Experience working in a SCIF environment

• Flexible work schedule
• A fun, supportive, and collaborative team
• Employee Basic Life and AD&D Insurance
• Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP)
• 401(K) retirement program
• Short- and long-term disability
• Paid parental leave
• Sick leave, vacation, and holiday pay
• Tuition reimbursement

Bachelor degree and typically 8+ years of diversified experience, primarily within the business development realm of a large, multinational company.

Top Secret/SCI

This position is part of our Corporate team.

Security Clearance Requirement:

An active Top Secret SCI security clearance is required for this position. This position is part of our Corporate team.

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