Proposal Writer - Project

Manpower

5d•$75,000 - $125,000

About The Position

This role is a Project-based role, with variable hours, not to exceed 30 hours per week. The primary purpose is to manage and create compelling proposals, RFP responses, and executive summaries and presentations that articulate the value proposition of our IT professional services offerings and solutions in a methodical way that is clear, customer-centric and compelling. The role involves working with a centralized proposal team and other key stakeholders to create a streamlined proposal management and writing process based on modern best practices. Building trust with pursuit teams through clear communication on roles, responsibilities, and process, consistently meeting deadlines, and leveraging each contributor’s strengths to assemble compelling presales deliverables is crucial. The writer will also be responsible for keeping centralized repositories up to date, ensuring "winning" proposals, infographics, and presentations are easy to find, and reducing the sales lifecycle timeline. Continuous education of key stakeholders on lessons learned and successes is expected to foster a culture of winning, growth, and innovation.

Requirements

5+ years’ experience managing and writing proposals and RFP responses.
Experience within a B2B services environment and growing knowledge of the IT services market.
Strong written and verbal communication skills.
High School Diploma

Nice To Haves

Industry knowledge related to financial services, consumer, life sciences, and tech industry verticals.
Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent professional experience in Sales Enablement, Marketing or Communications.
APMP or Shipley Certified

Responsibilities

Manage and create compelling proposals, RFP responses, and executive summaries and presentations that articulate the value proposition of our IT professional services offerings and solutions in a methodical way that is clear, customer-centric and compelling.
Work with centralized proposal team and other key stakeholders to create a streamlined proposal management and writing process based on modern best practices.
Build trust with pursuit teams with clear communication on roles, responsibilities & process, consistently meeting deadlines, and leveraging each contributor’s strengths to assemble compelling presales deliverables.
Write, edit and aggregate win themes and compelling proposals, RFP responses, and supporting documents that emphasize a differentiated value proposition for complex services engagements and will resonate with the C-suite.
Draft technical content in partnership with delivery and pursuit team.
Keep centralized repositories up to date ensuring “winning” proposals, infographics, and presentations are easy to find, and reduce the sales lifecycle timeline.
Continuously educate key stakeholders of lessons learned and successes to foster a culture of winning, growth and innovation.
Contribute to refining a proposal process that yields adoption and consistency; review a sampling of past proposals and document what to keep and what to elevate.
Establish templates, tools, writing styles, differentiated language based on current offerings.
Begin managing and creating sales proposals and RFP responses for prioritized deals.
Steady state proposal management for moderate to high probability deals.