Strategic Proposals Lead - Technical Offer Management

GEA Group; Oakdale (MN); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

12 paid holidays + 136 hours PTO

7% 401(k) employer match

Tuition reimbursement

Wellness incentive program

Employee Assistance Program

Health Savings/ Spending Accounts

Job summary

GEA Group is seeking a Project Manager – Technical Offer Management in the United States to coordinate commercial and technical sales support, from opportunity intake to quotation package completion. You will align sales, process engineering, procurement, and finance to meet deadlines and improve proposal quality.

You will lead cross-functional workflows, manage timelines, and ensure accurate quotations while maintaining version control.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering or related field.
• 3+ years of experience in project coordination, sales support, commercial operations, proposal management, or related function.
• Experience coordinating cross-functional workstreams and managing deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, including resolving conflicts and aligning teams around deadlines.
• Demonstrated success improving process execution and meeting time-sensitive deliverables.
• Project management certification or training is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Manage sales support projects (usually > $7M and multiple technologies) and proposal workflows from request intake through final submission.
• Coordinate cross-functional inputs from sales, process engineering, application engineering, procurement, workshop, finance, contract management and other stakeholders to develop complete quotation packages.
• Build and maintain project timelines for proposal development, ensuring milestones, reviews, approvals, and customer due dates are achieved.
• Facilitate kickoff meetings, status reviews, and follow-up actions to keep proposal teams aligned on scope, assumptions, deliverables, and responsibilities.
• Monitor proposal progress, identify risks to schedule or content quality, and elevate issues proactively to support on-time completion.
• Ensure quotations and supporting documents are accurate, complete, and aligned with customer requirements, internal standards and approved commercial terms.
• Track open opportunities, proposal status, and turnaround times, providing updates to sales leadership and stakeholders.
• Standardize and improve sales support processes, tools, templates, and communication methods.
• Maintain documentation of assumptions, clarifications, deviations, approvals, and revision history for each opportunity.
• Support communications related to proposals, including clarifications, follow-up items, and coordination of customer deliverables.
• Prepare and present proposals to senior leadership and internal stakeholders as part of phase gate review.

Skills

Project management

Communication skills

Cross-functional collaboration

Problem-solving

Detail-oriented

English proficiency

Business travel

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering or related field

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

GEA Group is seeking a Project Manager – Technical Offer Management in the United States to coordinate commercial and technical sales support, from opportunity intake to quotation package completion. You will align sales, process engineering, procurement, and finance to meet deadlines and improve proposal quality.

You will lead cross-functional workflows, manage timelines, and ensure accurate quotations while maintaining version control.