Federal Proposal Lead: Plan, Write & Win Bids

Titan Technologies

Maryland

On-site

USD 85,000 - 120,000

Full time

2 days ago
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Job summary

Titan Technologies seeks a Proposal Manager to lead assigned Federal proposals from solicitation release through submission. You will coordinate contributors across Capture, Business Development, Operations, Contracts, Pricing, solution teams, and subcontractors to deliver compliant, high-quality responses.

This sole contributor role requires strong writing and editing skills, sound judgment, the ability to manage multiple priorities to tight deadlines, and the capacity to work independently

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
  • At least 4 years of Federal proposal development experience, including direct responsibility for managing proposal schedules, compliance, reviews, and production.
  • Experience supporting proposals from solicitation release through final submission.
  • Working knowledge of Federal RFPs, RFIs, RFQs, task orders, IDIQs, and proposal compliance requirements.
  • Strong writing and editing skills, including the ability to improve content produced by technical and nontechnical contributors.
  • Demonstrated ability to manage deadlines, follow up on commitments, and maintain accurate proposal records.
  • Strong proficiency with Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, and SharePoint.
  • Ability to work independently and coordinate distributed teams in a deadline-driven environment.

Responsibilities

  • Manage the proposal development process for assigned Federal RFPs, RFIs, RFQs, task orders, and other requests.
  • Analyze solicitation instructions, evaluation criteria, attachments, amendments, and contractual requirements to identify response obligations and risks.
  • Build and maintain proposal schedules, compliance matrices, annotated outlines, proposal plans, action trackers, and responsibility assignments.
  • Plan and facilitate proposal kickoffs, daily stand-ups, working sessions, solution meetings, and review sessions.
  • Coordinate writers, reviewers, solution leads, pricing, contracts, and production resources to meet established milestones.
  • Track open actions, dependencies, content gaps, and resource constraints; resolve routine issues and elevate material risks early.
  • Manage final editing, formatting, quality control, and submission activities in coordination with proposal leadership.
  • Partner with Capture Managers and Solution Leads to apply win themes, discriminators, customer priorities, and proof points throughout the response.
  • Develop outlines that map solicitation requirements and evaluation factors to Titan's solution, experience, and evidence.
  • Write, edit, and restructure proposal content to improve responsiveness, clarity, consistency, and readability.
  • Coordinate development of executive summaries, management and technical approaches, staffing and transition plans, past performance, resumes, and corporate experience sections.
  • Maintain a complete compliance matrix covering instructions, evaluation criteria, page limits, forms, attachments, and submission requirements.
  • Support reviews; consolidate comments, assign actions, and verify that approved changes are incorporated.
  • Perform final checks across technical, contractual, and price volumes to identify inconsistencies, omissions, and submission risks.

Skills

Federal proposal development
Writing and editing
Project coordination
Independent work
Microsoft Word/Excel/PowerPoint
Team coordination (distributed teams)

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Microsoft Word
Excel
PowerPoint
Teams
SharePoint

Job description

Titan Technologies seeks a Proposal Manager to lead assigned Federal proposals from solicitation release through submission. You will coordinate contributors across Capture, Business Development, Operations, Contracts, Pricing, solution teams, and subcontractors to deliver compliant, high-quality responses.

This sole contributor role requires strong writing and editing skills, sound judgment, the ability to manage multiple priorities to tight deadlines, and the capacity to work independently

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