Proposal Director, North America

SLR Consulting•Boston, MA

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

As our new Proposal Director, you will play an important role on a team whose work is essential to achieving this goal. In this role, you’ll lead SLR’s North American Proposal team, an established group of professionals across Canada and the U.S., supporting sector and growth leaders to identify, shape, and win strategic opportunities across the region. You’ll play a key role in evolving how proposals are developed, bringing fresh thinking, structure, and momentum to a critical business function. You’ll lead multi‑disciplinary bid teams across technical, commercial, legal, and support functions, ensuring clarity, alignment, and strong collaboration from opportunity qualification through submission. Working closely with the Americas Growth Director, you’ll help prioritize sector client strategies, develop compelling win themes, and continuously raise the bar on how we respond to clients and the market to deliver a winning formula. This is a hands‑on leadership role for a proposal professional who enjoys building capability, driving change, and introducing innovative tools, processes, and ways of working. You’ll need to bring energy to the team leading the development of our people, strengthening consistency and quality in our products, and transforming the proposal function into a high‑impact, forward‑looking team.

Requirements

15+ years of experience in proposals, marketing, or technical writing in environmental services or related professional service environment
Relevant degree or recognized professional qualification
Proven track record leading complex, multi-disciplinary bids from strategic development to submission
Strong writing, editing and storytelling skills
Highly organized with strong project management capability managing competing priorities and deadlines
Effective communicator with senior stakeholders and clients, comfortable influencing and facilitating
Competent in analytical assessment and reporting to support bid evaluation and strategic decisions
Experience implementing data driven analytical tools for the improvement in processes and efficiency

Responsibilities

Lead and inspire a team of Proposal Coordinators/Specialists, building a high-performance, collaborative, and innovative proposal function.
Drive overall proposal strategy from lead sourcing through to Go/No-Go decisions, win themes, value propositions, and prioritization of RFP evaluation criteria
Collaborate with Sector Leaders, Account Managers and Proposal Leads on procurement priorities and resources
Lead Go/No-Go for strategic proposals and management of schedule and allocation of resources for proposal development and submissions
Provide guidance and oversight on proposal strategy, prioritizing and evaluating against RFP evaluation criteria and win themes to maximize value and win strategy
Develop and oversee compelling, client‑focused proposal narratives, translating complex technical inputs into clear, concise messaging that highlights SLR’s differentiators and value.
Identify key contributors including engagement with any subcontractors / partners
Partner with legal and leadership teams for technical and quality reviews and approvals prior to submission.
Champion innovative tools, templates, processes, and new ways of working to continuously improve proposal quality and efficiency, including where automation, data sourcing, and technology can enhance processes and delivery.
Coach, mentor, and develop proposal talent while promoting proposal excellence across the business through training, tools, and feedback
Ensure overall compliance with the SLR Core Proposal Process