Remote Proposal Lead (EMEA) — Winning Bids

Lime; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Lime is seeking a Manager, Proposal Writing to lead high‑impact bids across Europe and beyond from the United States. You will shape narratives, set standards, and manage both in‑house and external teams to win complex procurement deadlines.

The role demands 7+ years in a fast‑paced bid environment, exceptional writing, and a knack for transforming complex requirements into persuasive proposals. Expect cross‑functional collaboration, AI-enabled tooling, and occasional travel to major markets.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in a competitive, deadline-driven bid environment.
• Excellent writing skills and ability to address executives and officials.
• Experience building or improving bid processes, templates or proposal tooling, including AI-enabled tools.
• Experience guiding, mentoring, reviewing or coaching other writers, and managing external partners.

Responsibilities

• Write clear, persuasive content for our most important RFPs, RFIs, permit applications and other public procurement processes, often with tight deadlines.
• Develop themes, narrative and messaging that make Lime the strongest answer for each city.
• Set the writing standard for the team: review and coach colleagues’ drafts, maintain quality and consistency across submissions.
• Manage and brief external consultants and agencies, mentor and coach colleagues, lead virtual project teams, and run improvement projects.
• Analyse procurement documents to identify priorities, evaluation criteria and competitive considerations, turning them into winning strategies.
• Contribute to pursuit planning, strategy and campaign work prior to tender issuance.
• Own long-term process and tooling improvements: templates, toolkits, best practices, and AI-enabled tools.
• Build knowledge and test new tools, including AI, with partners across the business.
• Partner with local Operations, Policy, Finance and other teams across countries, adapting content to local context and language.
• Travel occasionally to major markets to plan and strategise.

Skills

Proposal writing

Bid management

Mentoring

Cross-functional collaboration

AI tools

Education

Bachelor's degree

Advanced degree preferred

Tools

AI tools

Job description

Lime is seeking a Manager, Proposal Writing to lead high‑impact bids across Europe and beyond from the United States. You will shape narratives, set standards, and manage both in‑house and external teams to win complex procurement deadlines.

The role demands 7+ years in a fast‑paced bid environment, exceptional writing, and a knack for transforming complex requirements into persuasive proposals. Expect cross‑functional collaboration, AI-enabled tooling, and occasional travel to major markets.