Proposal Analyst - Social, Healthcare, and Public Entities

McKinsey & Company; Doha; On-site; QAR 300,000 - 600,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Mentorship and learning

Global team

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

McKinsey & Company in Doha, Qatar, is seeking a Proposal Specialist/Manager to join the SHaPE Practice. You will coordinate proposal documents, craft content, gather feedback, and collaborate with client development advisors, strategy designers, and other experts to drive high-quality submissions.

You will work closely with the Proposal Managers and cross-functional teams, applying agile practices to deliver timely materials and future-ready proposals that win opportunities while upholding the

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent.
• 2-4 years of experience in a client services setting (public sector proposals, client development, or proposal management).
• Proven project management skills.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office (PowerPoint, Excel).
• Excellent English and Arabic communication, written and verbal.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate proposal documents and process under guidance of Proposal Managers/Specialists.
• Create timely and high-quality proposal content and templates.
• Gather feedback and manage cadence of iterations and reviews with consultant teams.
• Embed into consultant and proposal teams via an agile operating model.
• Develop content and thought leadership for proposals and knowledge assets.

Skills

Project management

Communication

AI tools knowledge

Office suite

Stakeholder influence

Ethical standards

Bilingual English/Arabic

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Microsoft Office

AI-enabled tools

Job description

Who You'll Work With

You are someone who thrives in a high-performance environment, bringing a growth mindset and entrepreneurial spirit to tackle meaningful challenges that have a real impact.

Who You'll Work With

You are someone who thrives in a high-performance environment, bringing a growth mindset and entrepreneurial spirit to tackle meaningful challenges that have a real impact.

In return for your drive, determination, and curiosity, we’ll provide the resources, mentorship, and opportunities to help you quickly broaden your expertise, grow into a well-rounded professional, and contribute to work that truly makes a difference.

When you join us, you will have:

• Continuous learning: Our learning and apprenticeship culture, backed by structured programs, is all about helping you grow while creating an environment where feedback is clear, actionable, and focused on your development. The real magic happens when you take the input from others to heart and embrace the fast-paced learning experience, owning your journey.
• A voice that matters: From day one, we value your ideas and contributions. You’ll make a tangible impact by offering innovative ideas and practical solutions, all while upholding our unwavering commitment to ethics and integrity. We not only encourage diverse perspectives, but they are critical in driving us toward the best possible outcomes.
• Global community: With colleagues across 65+ countries and over 100 different nationalities, our firm’s diversity fuels creativity and helps us come up with the best solutions. Plus, you’ll have the opportunity to learn from exceptional colleagues with diverse backgrounds and experiences.
• Exceptional benefits: On top of a competitive salary (based on your location, experience, and skills), we provide a comprehensive benefits package to enable holistic well-being for you and your family.

Your Impact

You will collaborate with other colleagues (e.g., client development advisors, proposal strategists, designers, competitive insights specialists, etc.) to shape our thinking on proposal best practices and drive continuous improvement.

You’ll be part of McKinsey’s Social, Healthcare and Public Entities (SHaPE) team and will be based in Doha, Qatar. You will aid SHaPE leaders in delivering the client activation mission, supporting the overall client activation strategy and related priority proposal opportunities. You will collaborate with the Practice leadership and management teams, as well as colleagues from Finance, Risk, and Legal teams. You will collaborate with consultants leading priority proposals. Day-to-day, your team may consist of a Proposal Specialist and Proposal Manager.

Alongside your alignment to SHaPE, you will be part of the Proposal Services path, a global community focused on growing our existing and new client relationships by enabling efficient and effective delivery of proposals. You will report to the regional Proposal Manager.

You will be a key member of the Proposal Squad for SHaPE EEMA, with a focus on Doha. You will support teams within SHaPE to co-create elements of distinctive proposals and associated supporting materials. Specifically, you will coordinate the proposal documents and process under the guidance of Proposal Managers/Specialists; create timely and high-quality proposal content; gather feedback and manage cadence of iterations and reviews with consultant teams.

You will build proposal development expertise and create content and thought leadership that can be used as best practices at the cell or global level, prepare templates, compliance matrices, close-out activities, and/or other administrative elements throughout proposal development based on submission requirements and maintain and populate proposal assets (playbooks, digital tools, templates, best-practice examples, reference cases).

Also, you will embed into consultant and proposal teams via an agile operating model to learn client context and create compelling proposal documents, materials, and experiences. Where applicable, you will perform research and quantitative/qualitative analysis (as assigned) to inform key hypotheses and insights and customize proposals for clients (e.g., interviews, secondary research); engage subject matter experts.

You will seek opportunities to bring the best of the firm’s broader capabilities and expertise into proposals, grow industry and sector knowledge during and outside proposals to help shape content proactively with relevant knowledge.

We work together with our clients to turn these ambitious goals into reality. The firm’s primary objective has remained constant over time: to serve senior leaders as their most trusted external advisor on critical issues facing their organizations. We have made a significant commitment to working across sectors (public, social, and private) to tackle the world's most pressing issues. With exceptional people in 65 countries, we combine global expertise and local insight to help create the change that truly matters.

The SHaPE Practice focuses on government entities, social sector institutions, private and statutory health insurers, hospitals, large physician groups, employers, and national health systems, on topics that will provide opportunities for our clients to achieve substantial, lasting improvement in their performance.

Your Qualifications and Skills

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent
• 2-4 years of experience in a client services setting, with experience in one or more of: public sector proposals and procurement, client development, business development, proposal management, communications
• Basic understanding of professional services client development
• Proven project management skills
• Strong conceptual and analytical problem-solving skills
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office products (i.e. PowerPoint, Excel)
• Results-oriented; entrepreneurial and self-driven
• Collaborative; able to build relationships and influence stakeholders across roles and levels
• High professional and ethical standards and respect for confidentiality
• Proficiency in using AI-enabled tools (e.g., generative AI, proposal automation, research platforms) to enhance proposal development, analyze public sector requirements, improve productivity, and support high-quality client deliverables, with a strong understanding of responsible and secure AI usage
• Excellent communication skills in English and Arabic, written and verbal (e.g., ability to synthesize and convey complex information clearly and compellingly)