Senior Proposal Strategist — Marketing & Pursuit

Plante Moran; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 82,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Plante Moran is seeking a persuasive and strategic writer to join the Pursuit Strategy & Proposal Team. You will lead the pursuit process, develop sales strategies, and craft compelling proposals, RFP responses, and presentations to win new business.

Collaborate with client service professionals, graphic design, and marketing to deliver on-time, high-quality deliverables while ensuring compliance with RFP directives.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 6+ years of increasing responsibility and demonstrable business writing experience, including the development of proposals in a professional services or corporate environment.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Marketing, Business Administration, English, Journalism, Communications, or other related subject area from an accredited college or university
• Advanced Microsoft Office, Word, and PowerPoint skills
• Literacy with AI use in a professional business environment (CoPilot)
• QorusDocs experience preferred, not required

Responsibilities

• Proposal and pursuit strategy management – Lead the pursuit process, from start to finish, by developing sales strategies and writing persuasive messages based on information from research profiles, meetings with client service professionals, meetings with target companies’ staff and management, and knowledge of the firm’s offerings.
• Project management – Serve as the central point of contact and lead project manager for assigned proposals while simultaneously managing multiple proposals and pursuit deliverables.
• Persuasive content creation - Develop and write persuasive messages based on information from pursuit research, customer personas/profiles, buyer journey/buyer group staging, meetings with client service professionals, and knowledge of the firm’s offerings.
• Finalist presentations - Lead and facilitate the pursuit/RFP finalist presentation preparation process to support the win strategy; develop talking points and presentation deliverables in collaboration with presenters.

Skills

Persuasive communications

Writing

Sales

Strategy

Project management

Marketing

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Marketing, Business Administration, English, Journalism, Communications, or other related subject area

Tools

Microsoft Office

Word

PowerPoint

QorusDocs

CoPilot AI

Job description

Plante Moran is seeking a persuasive and strategic writer to join the Pursuit Strategy & Proposal Team. You will lead the pursuit process, develop sales strategies, and craft compelling proposals, RFP responses, and presentations to win new business.

Collaborate with client service professionals, graphic design, and marketing to deliver on-time, high-quality deliverables while ensuring compliance with RFP directives.