Senior Proposal Lead & Writer (Hybrid)

AECOM Corporation; Houston (TX); Hybrid; USD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

AECOM is seeking a Proposal Specialist III in Houston, TX to lead medium to large proposals through capture and interview stages, coordinating with marketing, operations, and support staff. The role includes leading outlines, content plans, and serving as lead writer for resumes, past performance sections, and executive summaries.

The position involves color reviews, quality checks, and go/no-go analysis support, with opportunities to influence pursuit strategy and continuous improvement across

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and 4+ years of relevant experience.
• A developed understanding of effective proposal and presentation strategy development and compliance, writing and production.
• A strong working knowledge of Adobe Creative Cloud, including InDesign and Acrobat, as well as Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
• Excellent writing skills, with an aptitude and attention to detail.
• Ability to produce accurate, compliant, and compelling work independently and with others.
• Initiative, skill, and personal commitment to manage multiple projects and details concurrently, follow up, and bring tasks and projects to full completion.
• Proven organizational and administrative skills, including the ability to complete varied work tasks on schedule, and lead deliverable efforts by others; and the proven ability to manage documents.
• A detailed knowledge of marketing best practices and procedures, work processes, and tools.

Responsibilities

• Leads medium to large proposals and presentations, and supports from capture through to interview stage, with support as required.
• Creates annotated outlines and content plan and provides recommendations to technical teams on section structures.
• May serve as lead writer and editor for tailored resumes, past performance sections, executive summaries, and/or management approaches for proposals.
• Facilitates color reviews (Pink and Red team), quality reviews, and applies lessons learned to add value to proposals.
• Manages the implementation of proposal and presentation revisions based on direction from review teams.
• Participates by providing recommendations in go/no-go and greenlight analyses in compliance with delegation of authority guidelines, capture planning and positioning activities as they pertain to preparation for the proposal.
• Completes internal debriefs for proposals they lead, leverages past pursuit debrief information.
• Supports team during win/loss debriefs and gathering of client feedback on proposals to ensure and demonstrate continuous improvement.
• May support marketing or pursuits strategy and content development related to clients/markets, marketing communications, campaigns, account managers (CAMs) and business lines, as necessary.
• Performs a self-check of work prior to submitting to others for review/approval

Skills

Excellent writing skills

Proposal writing

Organizational skills

Adobe Creative Cloud

InDesign

Acrobat

Microsoft Word

Excel

PowerPoint

Education

Bachelor's degree

4+ years of relevant experience

Tools

Adobe Creative Cloud

InDesign

Acrobat

Microsoft Word

Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

AECOM is seeking a Proposal Specialist III in Houston, TX to lead medium to large proposals through capture and interview stages, coordinating with marketing, operations, and support staff. The role includes leading outlines, content plans, and serving as lead writer for resumes, past performance sections, and executive summaries.

The position involves color reviews, quality checks, and go/no-go analysis support, with opportunities to influence pursuit strategy and continuous improvement across