Senior Marketing Proposal Writer

Plante Moran • Greenwood Village, CO

8d • $82,000 - $120,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

The members of the Pursuit Strategy & Proposal Team serve as strategic partners in helping the firm develop, win, and retain business. Working in a fast-paced and creative environment, we write and design business proposals and presentations to support the firm’s business development and pursuit of new opportunities. We are seeking a candidate with strong skills in persuasive communications, writing, sales, strategy, project management, and marketing.

Requirements

• 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)

Nice To Haves

• QorusDocs experience preferred, not required

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Collaborate with pursuit teams and manage large teams of service providers and stakeholders.
• Create proposals, RFP responses, presentations, and other sales deliverables.
• Serve as the central point of contact and lead project manager for assigned proposals while simultaneously managing multiple proposals and pursuit deliverables.
• Facilitate large teams of client service professionals, graphic design team resources, marketing professionals, and other pursuit resources to produce deliverables.
• Deliver a comprehensive response on time that best positions Plante Moran as the first-choice firm while maintaining compliance with RFP process and proposal directives.
• Simultaneously manage multiple pursuits, proposals, presentations, and pursuit deliverables.
• Develop and write persuasive messages based on information from pursuit research, customer personas/profiles, buyer journey/buyer group staging, meetings with client service professionals, communications with customer’s staff and management, prior pursuit experiences, and strong knowledge of the firm’s offerings.
• Engage and collaborate with additional firm resources as necessary to produce quality deliverables by the deadline.
• Lead and facilitate the pursuit/RFP finalist presentation preparation process to support the win strategy; if a multi-stage process, lead and facilitate all stages until selection is made.
• Develop talking points and presentation deliverables in collaboration with presenters.
• Effectively lead and coach internal “dry runs” prior to presentation date; provide constructive feedback to presenters; finalize presentation materials.

Benefits

• health insurance
• dental insurance
• vision insurance
• disability insurance
• life insurance
• Flexible Time Off
• various pre-determined holidays
• 401(k) plan
• flexible benefits plans
• business-related travel expense, lodging, and meal reimbursement for business-related use
• pension plan is also available for eligible administrative and paraprofessional staff
• discretionary bonus plan is available for eligible staff
• option to elect health insurance in addition to limited paid sick time for some contingent staff positions

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior