Lead Proposals & Bids Manager

Realogy; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Cartus in the United Kingdom seeks a senior proposals lead to own the end-to-end bid lifecycle. You will coordinate requirements, allocate resources across RFPs and strategic projects, and ensure timely, high-quality submissions.

You'll coach the writing team, partner with Sales, Account Management and subject-matter experts, maintain content libraries and drive process improvements to deliver differentiated, compliant proposals.

Qualifications

• Significant experience writing, editing or managing business proposals, bids or RFP responses.
• Experience leading a team, project group or cross-functional workstream.
• Proven success managing complex projects, approval workflows and competing deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Lead the proposal workflow, assessing requirements and allocating resources across incoming bids, requests for proposals and strategic projects.
• Manage selected high-profile or complex opportunities from planning through submission, maintaining clear timelines, quality standards and compliance.
• Provide day-to-day leadership, coaching and support to the writing team, including setting priorities, giving constructive feedback and contributing to development plans.
• Partner with Sales, Account Management, senior leaders and subject-matter experts to gather insight and develop tailored responses.
• Maintain the response database and related content, ensuring information is accurate, current, accessible and easy to reuse.
• Improve proposal templates, processes and governance to increase efficiency and consistency.
• Translate client needs into differentiated solution narratives that reflect Cartus’s flexible mobility solutions and commitment to personalised support.
• Apply data and technology to strengthen workflows, analyse opportunities for improvement and enhance the proposal experience.
• Promote inclusive, respectful collaboration across internal teams and with external partners.

Skills

Proposal writing

Leadership

Editing & proofreading

Stakeholder management

Project coordination

Job description

Cartus in the United Kingdom seeks a senior proposals lead to own the end-to-end bid lifecycle. You will coordinate requirements, allocate resources across RFPs and strategic projects, and ensure timely, high-quality submissions.

You'll coach the writing team, partner with Sales, Account Management and subject-matter experts, maintain content libraries and drive process improvements to deliver differentiated, compliant proposals.