Manager, Proposal Content & Quality

Interdependence; Milwaukee (WI); Hybrid; USD 85,000 - 115,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/dental/vision coverage

Vacation/PTO/Holidays

401(k) plan

Flex Fridays

Flexible remote work options

Summer Fridays

Job summary

Interdependence in Milwaukee is seeking a Manager, Proposal Content & Quality to shape, refine, and quality-check new business proposals. You’ll ensure editorial rigor, persuasive storytelling, and clean, modern deck presentation that resonates with executive decision-makers.

You’ll lead content editing, tighten language, align recommendations to client goals, and partner with account leads and senior leadership to pressure-test ideas while using AI strategically under human editorial standards.

Qualifications

• 4–8 years of experience in public relations, communications, marketing, or related agency environments.
• Exceptional writing and editing skills, with editorial, precise, and persuasive qualities.
• Strong editorial judgment and critical thinking beyond grammar, including logic and structure.
• Experience writing, editing, or owning proposals, pitch decks, and new business materials.
• Comfortable using AI tools for drafting and iteration, with disciplined refinement of outputs.
• Strong PowerPoint proficiency, with clean layout, hierarchy, and narrative pacing.
• Highly organized, deadline-driven, and able to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
• Attention to detail without losing the big picture.
• Ability to provide clear, constructive feedback to senior stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary content editor and QA lead for new business proposals, ensuring clarity and strategic alignment.
• Edit proposals to strengthen narrative flow, differentiation, and client-focused positioning.
• Elevate persuasive writing to engage executive decision-makers.
• Transform rough inputs into crisp, confident, human content with a writer's sensibility.
• Identify gaps or inconsistencies and proactively recommend improvements.
• Tailor case studies and proof points to demonstrate relevance and outcomes.
• Collaborate with account leads and senior leadership to sharpen framing and the 'why now' narrative.
• Leverage AI strategically to accelerate drafting while maintaining editorial standards.
• Demonstrate strong PowerPoint judgment to ensure slide decks support the story.
• Manage multiple proposals across deadlines without sacrificing quality.
• Maintain proposal templates and content libraries to raise quality and speed.

Skills

Exceptional writing & editing

Editorial judgment

Proposal & deck experience

AI drafting skills

PowerPoint proficiency

Stakeholder collaboration

Tools

PowerPoint

Job description

The Role

We are seeking a writer, editor, and critical thinker to serve as Manager, Proposal Content & Quality. This role shapes, refines, and quality‑checks new business proposals, ensuring they read like high‑caliber editorial, sell like persuasive writing, and present like clean, modern decks. The ideal candidate deeply understands creative writing and “good editorial” feels, can diagnose what matters most to a prospective client, tighten language, clarify strategy, and elevate storytelling. They act as the final strategic, editorial, and presentation filter before proposals reach prospects.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary content editor and quality assurance lead for new business proposals, ensuring clarity, consistency, and strategic alignment throughout.
• Edit proposals with true editorial judgment: strengthen narrative flow, sharpen positioning, improve differentiation, and align recommendations to client goals.
• Elevate persuasive writing across proposals by improving logic, prioritization, and impact, ensuring proposals are compelling to executive decision‑makers.
• Bring a creative writer’s sensibility to language, structure, and storytelling, transforming rough inputs into crisp, confident, human content.
• Identify gaps, redundancies, or inconsistencies in messaging, case studies, and recommendations, and proactively recommend improvements.
• Select, tailor, and refine case studies and supporting proof points to clearly demonstrate relevance and outcomes.
• Partner with account leads, subject matter experts, and senior leadership to pressure‑test ideas, sharpen framing, and strengthen the “why now” narrative.
• Use AI strategically to accelerate drafting, improve options, and iterate quickly, while applying human editorial standards to ensure nuance, credibility, and originality.
• Demonstrate strong PowerPoint judgment with an eye for clean design: improve slide hierarchy, layout, pacing, and clarity so the deck supports the story and drives the close.
• Manage multiple proposals simultaneously, prioritizing effectively across deadlines, stakeholders, and proposal complexity without sacrificing quality.
• Maintain and improve proposal templates, content libraries, and editorial guidelines to raise overall quality and speed over time.
• Apply learnings from wins, losses, and feedback to continuously improve proposal effectiveness and consistency.

Qualifications

• 4 – 8 years of experience in public relations, communications, marketing, or related agency environments.
• Exceptional writing and editing skills, including creative writing capability and demonstrated ability to make content feel editorial, precise, and persuasive.
• Strong editorial judgment and critical thinking, with the ability to evaluate content beyond grammar, including logic, positioning, structure, and impact.
• Experience writing, editing, or owning proposals, pitch decks, and new business materials.
• Comfortable using AI tools for drafting and iteration, with strong prompting skills and the discipline to refine outputs until they meet a high bar.
• Strong PowerPoint proficiency, with excellent taste for clean layout, hierarchy, and narrative pacing.
• Highly organized, deadline‑driven, and able to manage many projects at once while prioritizing based on business urgency.
• High attention to detail without losing sight of the big picture.
• Confidence providing clear, constructive feedback to senior stakeholders and influencing toward stronger work.

Perks

We offer a competitive benefits package—including comprehensive medical/dental/vision coverage, vacation/sick leave/holiday PTO, 401(k), Flex Fridays, flexible remote work options, and Summer Fridays.