Transportation Proposals Lead – Strategy & Coordination

WGI; West Palm Beach (FL); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

WGI seeks a Proposal Manager, Transportation to lead pursuit strategy across multiple Florida offices. You will coordinate teams, drive pre-marketing, and ensure compliant, winning proposals through the full pursuit lifecycle.

The ideal candidate has 10+ years in A/E/C proposals, strong writing and editing skills, and the ability to manage deadlines across geographic teams while maintaining high-quality content and visuals.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in English, Communications, Journalism, or Marketing.
• Minimum 5 years in the A/E/C industry preparing proposals for federal, state, and municipal clients.
• Ability to work with diverse teams across multiple offices and stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Support Transportation pursuit managers on pre-marketing efforts and participates in go/no go process
• Collaborate with Transportation pursuit managers in strategic planning that includes evaluating pre-marketing intelligence, identifying customer concerns and key issues, and developing win strategies
• Manage the proposal teams, including coordinators and specialists
• Be versed in Transportation Division strategic and business plans
• Coordinate the production of compliant proposals, following proposal management process
• Coordinate with technical staff and subconsultants development of proposal content and information
• Coordinate with graphic designers to develop graphic elements for the proposals or presentations
• Analyze debriefs and apply lessons learned to add value to strategy and reviews
• Facilitate proposal production planning meetings
• Coordinate presentation production
• Participate in presentation practices and assist during rehearsals
• Ensure quality of all produced material including messages, consistency, spelling, and grammar
• Proactively lead the update effort of resumes, project descriptions, project photos, and additional boilerplate material
• Responsible for page-turned quality control
• Assist coaching proposal coordinators in WGI's proposal production process

Skills

Strategic thinking

Proposal writing

Organizational skills

Time management

Interpersonal skills

Leadership

Attention to detail

Adobe InDesign

Microsoft Office

AI tools

Education

Bachelor's degree in English/Communications/Marketing

Tools

Adobe Creative Suite (InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, Acrobat)

Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams)

Job description

WGI seeks a Proposal Manager, Transportation to lead pursuit strategy across multiple Florida offices. You will coordinate teams, drive pre-marketing, and ensure compliant, winning proposals through the full pursuit lifecycle.

The ideal candidate has 10+ years in A/E/C proposals, strong writing and editing skills, and the ability to manage deadlines across geographic teams while maintaining high-quality content and visuals.