Federal Proposal Manager

Jobtailor; Vienna (VA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Centennial Technologies is seeking a Proposal Manager to lead federal proposal development, ensuring win strategies and compliance while coordinating with capture managers, technical teams, and subject-matter experts. You will write, edit, and assemble proposal content from existing libraries and new material, and support graphics for diverse scale proposals.

The role requires strong English communication, detail orientation, and the ability to manage multiple concurrent proposals with quality

Qualifications

• Five+ years of Federal proposal coordination, management and writing experience.
• Detail-oriented with strong organizational and management skills.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a dynamic environment.
• Experience developing and managing proposal volumes (technical, solution, cost).
• Proficiency with proposal tools: schedules, outlines, compliance matrices, storyboards, color reviews.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end proposal development ensuring compliance, quality and alignment with win strategies.
• Collaborate with capture managers, technical stakeholders and cross-functional teams.
• Write and edit proposal content using library content and new material.
• Support graphic development for small- to large-scale proposals.
• Develop and maintain proposal schedules and resource library.
• Oversee proposal staff and writing teams; manage contributions from teammates and subcontractors.
• Incorporate win themes, discriminate features, and graphics into proposals.
• Ensure timely submission and management of compliance artifacts.

Skills

Proposal coordination

Proposal management

Writing

Attention to detail

Organization

Multitasking

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

MS Office

Adobe

Job description

• Centennial Technologies seeks a proposal manager to lead proposal development and support federal customers.
• This role requires a strong understanding of effectively developing, managing, and writing winning Federal Government proposals using industry best practices.
• The Proposal Manager will lead end-to-end proposal development efforts, ensuring compliance, quality, and alignment with win strategies while collaborating with cross-functional teams, capture managers, and technical stakeholders.
• Provides oversight of proposal staff and writing teams; manage and incorporate teammate/subcontractor contributions.
• Participates in formulating and reviewing proposal win strategies/themes, discriminator development, and graphics development.
• Write and edit proposal content using new and existing content from library.
• Support graphic development for small- to large-scale strategic proposals.
• Assists with appropriate use of graphics and other communication techniques.
• Assists Capture Managers with the development of proposal schedules.
• Manages compliance, quality, and the timely submission of proposals.
• Manages and controls proposal activities as per the schedule and the RFP's requirements.
• Supports the development of and maintenance of a proposal resource library.
• Assists and facilitates technical approach/management approach storyboarding and writing processes, ensuring a solution coincides with win themes and research.
• Perform detailed analysis of the proposal requirements, contributing to and understanding the high-level proposal strategy while tracking compliance.
• Create proposal-related documents such as compliance matrices, win themes, proposal outlines, schedules, proposal-related questions to the government, storyboards, color review documents, final proposal documents, and oral presentation materials.
• Manage team members, issue data calls, and track and manage deliverables from a diverse internal technical and management personnel team.
• Develop and implement structured, repeatable proposal processes tailored to unique requirements and circumstances.
• Understands the Government evaluation and source selection process (i.e., FAR, DFAR, and procurement/contracting procedures).
• Supports cost-price volume development.
• Manages quick turnaround task order responses for existing IDIQ/BPA contracts.

Requirements

• Five or more years of relevant experience in Federal proposal coordination, management, and writing.
• Highly detail-oriented with excellent organizational and management skills.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and multitask in a dynamic work environment.
• Demonstrated experience supporting, managing, and developing proposal volumes (technical, solution, cost, and others).
• Demonstrated experience developing and applying proposal management tools including but not limited to the following: proposal schedule, outline, compliance matrix, kick-off, storyboards, mockups, color review in-briefs and others.
• Demonstrated experience applying the rigor of formal proposal processes in developing proposals.
• Strong English language skills, excellent attention to detail, and sound decision-making.
• Experience with developing oral presentations is desired.
• Bachelor's degree in applicable field (English, writing, communications, business, etc.)
• Interest in and an ability to understand basic technology and process concepts.
• Proficiency in using MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint) and Adobe.