Proposal Manager

00001 Kelly Services, Inc; United States; Sur place; USD 90 000 - 130 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Kelly Services, Inc. is seeking a Proposal Manager to lead RFx and proposal processes for KellyOCG solutions, managing high-visibility opportunities from start to finish.

You will partner with sales, solution architecture, pricing, delivery, and SMEs across geographies to deliver compliant, compelling proposals that differentiate our MSP and RPO offerings.

The role emphasizes writing, editing, and continuous improvement to win bids and support global growth.

Qualifications

• Experience leading complex RFx and proposal projects from inception to submission.
• Able to manage timelines, review cycles, and SME responsibilities across multiple opportunities.
• Strong writing, editing, and content-synthesis skills.
• Ability to refine AI-generated content into human-centered messaging.
• Experience with content repositories preferred.

Responsabilités

• Lead and project manage full RFx and proposal lifecycle from kickoff to submission.
• Direct timelines, review cycles, and SME responsibilities across multiple overlapping, fast-paced opportunities.
• Ensure overall bid compliance by interpreting client requirements, managing RFx scope and instructions, and delivering complete submissions.
• Partner with sales and account leaders, solution architects, pricing managers, delivery teams, and SMEs across all levels and geographies to gather inputs and keep contributors moving.
• Manage collaborative document development, consolidating changes and stakeholder feedback and prioritizing inputs with tight timelines.
• Proofread and quality-check proposal packages for clarity, accuracy, consistency, persuasiveness, brand alignment and solution integrity.
• Support complex, highly visible global bids while maintaining responsiveness and quality across deadlines.
• Leverage proposal software and AI-enabled tools to maintain the proposal knowledge base and content repository.

Connaissances

Project management

Stakeholder management

Written communication

Cross-functional collaboration

Analytical thinking

Process improvement

Outils

Responsive RFx platform

Microsoft Word

PowerPoint

Excel

Description du poste

Together we change lives.Kelly is a team of experts driven by our belief that the impact of the right person in the right job is limitless.No matter where you are in your career journey you can apply your knowledge and passion to move people, organizations, and communities forward. You'll have opportunities to grow your expertise and capabilities, both professionally and personally. As a team we celebrate inclusion, caring and collaboration. As a company we value your contribution, we work with integrity, and we always put people first - so your impact really will change lives.

The Proposal Manager leads the RFx and proposal process for KellyOCG solutions, managing complex, high-visibility, time-sensitive RFPs, RFIs, and related opportunities from start to finish. The role delivers high-quality, compliant, and compelling proposals that differentiate KellyOCG and accurately represent its MSP, RPO, and related outsourced workforce solutions.

Acting as a consultative partner across sales, solution architecture, pricing, delivery, and subject matter experts, the Proposal Manager proactively drives the end-to-end RFx process, makes timely decisions even amid ambiguity, keeps contributors and decision-makers moving, and writes and edits effectively for a range of external and internal audiences.

This function is key to KellyOCG winning, retaining, and expanding business.

Responsibilities

• Lead and project manage the full RFx and proposal lifecycle, from pre-kickoff and requirements analysis through development, reviews, approvals, and final submission.
• Direct timelines, process flow, review cycles, and SME responsibilities across multiple overlapping, fast-paced proposal opportunities.
• Ensure overall bid compliance by interpreting client/procurement requirements, managing RFx scope and instructions, and delivering complete and accurate submissions.
• Partner with sales and account leaders, solution architects, pricing managers, delivery teams, and SMEs across all levels and geographies to gather inputs, and keep contributors and decision-makers moving.
• Manage collaborative document development, including consolidating extensive tracked changes and stakeholder feedback and using sound judgment to prioritize, reconcile, or challenge inputs when timelines are compress.
• Proofread and quality-check proposal packages for clarity, accuracy, consistency, persuasiveness, brand alignment, and solution integrity.
• Support complex, highly visible, and time-sensitive global bids while maintaining responsiveness, attention to detail, and quality across simultaneous deadlines.
• Leveraging Responsive RFx response software, maintain and optimize the proposal knowledge repository, including approved responses, templates, case studies, proof points, reusable content, metadata, and naming conventions, whilst using it's AI functionality to identify and flag outdated, missing, or underperforming content and coordinate updates with appropriate subject matter experts
• Champion continuous improvement efforts by identifying and implementing enhancements to proposal processes, content management, technology use, and team workflows.

Knowledge and Skills

Professional

• Strong project management skills with the ability to proactively lead complex proposal projects from initiation through submission.
• Adaptable and proactive, with a continuous-improvement mindset and willingness to challenge processes or approaches constructively.
• Highly organized and composed under pressure, with the ability to manage overlapping, fast paced deadlines, shifting priorities, and occasional ambiguity while maintaining sound judgment, responsiveness, and quality.
• Excellent communication, facilitation, and stakeholder-management skills, balancing influence, diplomacy, and resolve with a collaborative style that builds trust and drives timely decisions and accountability across levels, functions, and geographies.
• A positive, approachable style receptive to immediate and ongoing feedback and suited to a fast-moving, highly collaborative environment.

Technical

• Strong knowledge of MSP and/or RPO solutions, with the ability to quickly understand complex outsourced workforce solutions, client needs, and business strategy is required.
• Exceptional writing, editing, proofreading, and content-synthesis skills.
• Experience with content repository technology such as Responsive is preferred; experience with equivalent platforms is acceptable.
• Strong comfort with approved AI-enabled tools, in accordance with company AI, confidentiality, and data-handling policies.
• Ability to refine AI-generated content provided by others into clear, natural, human-centered messaging that reflects the appropriate brand voice, audience, tone, and level of nuance rather than relying on generic or formulaic output.
• Ability to manage large volumes of written content, reusable assets, and metadata.
• Advanced Microsoft Word skills, with preferred proficiency in PowerPoint, Excel, and other standard