Lead Proposal Manager

Bizzell Group; New Carrollton (MD); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

Bizzell Group is seeking a Proposal Manager – Federal Healthcare Market to lead the full proposal lifecycle for federal healthcare opportunities, focusing on HHS, NIH, CMS, and related offices. The role requires coordinating cross-functional teams, scheduling, content development, and rigorous review processes to deliver compliant, compelling responses.

The ideal candidate features at least 10 years in federal health proposals, outstanding writing and editing skills, and proven ability to manage

Qualifications

• Minimum of 10 years of federal health proposals experience.
• Experience supporting HHS, NIH, CMS and related subdivisions.
• Strong writing, editing, and storytelling skills.
• Excellent organizational and time-management abilities.
• Ability to manage complex proposal plans, schedules, and reviews.
• Familiarity with FAR-based acquisitions and federal procurement portals.
• Proficiency with MS Office and SharePoint.

Responsibilities

• Lead the full proposal lifecycle for federal healthcare opportunities.
• Develop proposal plans, schedules, compliance matrices, and production timelines.
• Ensure proposal compliance with instructions, criteria, and deadlines.
• Write, edit, and review executive summaries, management approaches, and resumes.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams and color team reviews.
• Maintain proposal quality and consistent messaging across volumes.

Skills

Proposal management

Federal healthcare

Writing & editing

Project coordination

Team leadership

Scheduling

Content development

Communication

Tools

MS Office

SharePoint

Job description

Description

Job Summary

The Proposal Manager – Federal Healthcare Market leads the full proposal development lifecycle for federal healthcare opportunities, with a primary focus on HHS, NIH, CMS, and their operating divisions, centers, institutes, and subdivisions. This role is responsible for managing compliant, compelling, and timely proposal responses from solicitation release through final submission. The ideal candidate brings at least 10 years of experience managing and contributing to federal health proposals, excellent writing and editing capabilities, and strong organizational skills to coordinate cross-functional teams, schedules, content, reviews, and production requirements.

Key Responsibilities

The Proposal Manager’s work spans proposal planning, compliance management, writing, editing, content development, color team reviews, production coordination, and continuous improvement of proposal processes across the federal healthcare ecosystem.

Federal Healthcare Proposal Management

• Lead the full proposal lifecycle for federal healthcare opportunities, including RFIs, sources sought responses, RFQs, RFPs, task orders, and recompetes.
• Manage proposal responses across HHS, NIH, CMS, and related subdivisions, including operating divisions, institutes, centers, program offices, and contracting offices.
• Develop proposal plans, schedules, outlines, compliance matrices, storyboards, writing assignments, review calendars, and production timelines.
• Ensure proposal compliance with solicitation instructions, evaluation criteria, page limits, formatting requirements, submission portals, and customer deadlines.

Proposal Writing, Editing & Reviews

• Write and edit proposal content, including executive summaries, management approaches, technical sections, staffing plans, past performance narratives, resumes, and transition plans.
• Translate technical and operational input from subject matter experts into clear, persuasive, compliant, and customer-focused proposal narratives.
• Lead proposal reviews, including Pink, Red, Gold, and final compliance reviews, and coordinate incorporation of reviewer feedback.
• Maintain proposal quality by ensuring consistency of voice, tone, win themes, discriminators, formatting, grammar, and message alignment across all volumes.

Team Coordination & Proposal Operations

• Coordinate cross-functional contributors, including capture managers, business development leads, technical subject matter experts, operations, pricing, contracts, recruiting, and subcontractor partners.
• Organize proposal resources, content libraries, templates, resumes, past performance references, data calls, graphics requests, and version-controlled files.
• Facilitate proposal meetings, including kickoffs, daily stand-ups, solution sessions, color team debriefs, production check-ins, and final submission readiness reviews.
• Support continuous improvement by refining proposal processes, tools, templates, reusable content, lessons learned, and proposal management best practices.

Qualifications & Requirements

• Experience: Minimum of 10 years of experience managing, writing, editing, and supporting federal health proposals.
• Federal Healthcare Market: Demonstrated proposal experience supporting HHS, NIH, CMS, and related subdivisions, operating divisions, institutes, centers, or program offices.
• Proposal Management: Proven ability to manage complex federal proposal efforts from planning through final submission, including compliance, schedule, reviews, content development, and production.
• Writing Skills: Excellent writing, editing, proofreading, and storytelling skills with the ability to develop persuasive and compliant proposal content.
• Organizational Skills: Excellent organizational and time-management skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities, deadlines, contributors, documents, and concurrent proposal activities.
• Federal Contracting Knowledge: Familiarity with FAR-based acquisitions, GWACs, IDIQs, BPAs, task orders, set-aside strategies, and common federal procurement portals.
• Technical Skills: Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite, SharePoint or similar collaboration platforms, proposal templates, content libraries, and document version-control processes.

Work Environment & Travel

• This is a hybrid role that requires the employee to work in the company office two days per week.
• Periodic travel may be required for customer meetings, industry events, proposal strategy sessions, color team reviews, partner meetings, and final proposal production activities.
• Must be comfortable working in a fast-paced proposal environment with multiple active pursuits, shifting deadlines, detailed compliance requirements, and cross-functional proposal teams.