Senior Proposal Strategy & Planning Consultant

Centene Corporation•Remote-MO, TN

1d•$87,700 - $157,800

About The Position

The Senior Proposal Strategy & Planning Consultant manages and supports pre-proposal work through the handoff to the RFP team. The role supports strategy discussions and workgroups, develops a basic program catalog, and delivers high-quality work products. It manages knowledge-capture databases and prepares, tailors, validates, and maintains pre-release RFP documents and tools, including program catalogs, white papers, and FAQs, while providing quality assurance over pre-release activities and documentation. In collaboration with APP or PDC leadership, the consultant develops and maintains strategy maps, capture plans, win-theme inputs, competitive assessments, risk logs, and executive briefings to support the pre-proposal process and mitigate risk. The consultant manages assigned projects across the proposal development lifecycle, including tracking status and action items, leading workgroups, gathering and interpreting information, escalating unresolved issues and risks, and following projects through closure. The role supports planning and pre-release meetings to identify differentiators, gaps, risks, proof points, and opportunities for innovation. It facilitates knowledge transfer and a warm handoff to the proposal lead, participates in lessons-learned discussions, and contributes to continuous improvement of APP processes, templates, dashboards, and guidance. The consultant analyzes health plan, public, enterprise, prior-RFP, competitor, and stakeholder information to develop actionable recommendations, and collaborates with health plans, Business Development, and other functional areas. Other duties may be assigned, and the position must comply with all policies and standards.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Business, Communications, Public Administration, Healthcare Administration, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
At least 7 years of experience with health plans, managing RFPs or grants, or managing complex projects.

Nice To Haves

Experience with Medicaid programming and Medicaid RFPs.

Responsibilities

Manage and support pre-proposal efforts through handoff to the RFP team, including strategy discussions, workgroups, program-catalog development, and production of high-quality work products.
Manage Teams and/or other knowledge-capture databases.
Build, tailor, validate, and maintain pre-release RFP documents and tools, including program catalogs, white papers, and FAQs; provide quality assurance over pre-release activities and documentation.
Collaborate with APP or PDC leadership to develop and maintain strategy maps, capture plans, win-theme inputs, competitive assessments, risk logs, and executive briefings.
Manage assigned proposal-lifecycle projects by tracking status, leading workgroups, tracking actions and decisions, escalating issues and risks, gathering and interpreting information, and following through to project closure.
Support team-wide planning and pre-release meetings to identify differentiators, gaps, risks, proof points, and innovation opportunities.
Support knowledge transfer and a warm handoff to the proposal lead; participate in lessons-learned discussions and relate results to proposal outcomes and customer debrief information in coordination with the assigned RFP team.
Contribute to continuous improvement of APP processes, templates, dashboards, and guidance.
Analyze health plan information, public data, enterprise data, prior RFPs, competitor information, and stakeholder input to produce actionable recommendations.
Collaborate with health plans, Business Development, and other functional areas on pre-release activities, and communicate project status in writing and verbally to the project team and leadership.
Perform other duties as assigned and comply with all policies and standards.