Proposal Operations Salt Lake City

<p><strong>Position Overview:</strong></p> <p>The S2 proposal operations manager leads the development and submission of comprehensive business proposals in response to government solicitations.<br /> This role requires coordinating a multidisciplinary team to craft compelling narratives that showcase the organization's capabilities, value proposition, and competitive advantages.<br /> A proposal manager must ensure that each proposal is compliant with the RFP guidelines, meticulously organized, and delivered within strict deadlines.<br /> They are responsible for managing the proposal schedule, overseeing content creation, conducting reviews for quality assurance, and ensuring alignment with company policies and customer requirements. <br /> The proposal manager acts as a liaison between the proposal team, management, and ancillary functions, providing clear communication and updates throughout the proposal process.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Essential Responsibilities:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Supports Business Development with artifacts, deliverables, and advice during early pursuit period</li> <li>Works seamlessly with Business Development, Capture Manager, Program Manager, Program Engineer, and others in the development of pursuit artifacts proposal responses</li> <li>Assumes responsibility for development and delivery of proposal artifacts, including: <ul> <li>Ensures proposal efforts are properly staffed</li> <li>Develops and implements detailed proposal schedule</li> <li>Conducts status meetings to ensure coordinated proposal activities and issues identification and resolution</li> <li>Assigns Book Bosses to proposal volumes and checks progress</li> <li>Ensures win themes, discriminators, and ghosting requirements are allocated and met</li> <li>Ensures proposal activities are scheduled and tracked, providing status to management</li> <li>Ensures proposal volume writing, graphics, formats, and layouts are complete, compliant and compelling</li> <li>Manages thorough in-process reviews, ensuring feedback is integrated into the response</li> <li>Ensures compliance to all RFP requirements, including generation of compliance matrixes</li> </ul> </li> <li>Coordinates proposal post-delivery activities (customer inquiry/EN/DR responses, etc)</li> <li>Leads team to maintain Proposal Reference Library including parsed content, lessons learned inputs, and list of Opportunity Sharepoints.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Qualifications:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Bachelor’s Degree and minimum 9 years prior related experience. Graduate Degree with a minimum of 7 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 13 years of prior related experience.</li> <li>Ability to obtain a security clearance</li> </ul> <p><strong>Preferred Qualifications: </strong></p> <ul> <li>Proposal management experience</li> <li>APMP or Shipley certification</li> <li>Writing, editing and desktop publishing experience</li> <li>Expert MS Office skills</li> <li>Defense and/or aerospace industry experience</li> </ul> <br /> Security Clearance Required: No<br /> Visa Candidate Considered: No<br /> <strong>Compensation:</strong><br /> Base Salary - USD $125,000 to $145,000