Senior Strategic Writer, Medicaid Proposals - Remote
About The Position
The Senior Strategic Writer drives and elevates the quality of proposal responses for assigned content areas, helping achieve a high proposal win rate and strong evaluation scores. For state-issued Medicaid Requests for Proposals (RFPs), the role develops responses to complex, high-point-value questions, ensuring submissions are compliant, responsive, compelling, and high quality. The writer also reviews drafts at key proposal milestones and prepares writing efforts in advance of RFP releases in partnership with the writing team, growth teams, and health plan leadership. The role owns writing tools and resources for the provider network functional area and keeps them current and relevant. The Senior Strategic Writer translates bid strategy into a clear, compelling, consistent proposal story. Working across functional teams, the role defines bid-specific writing strategy, equips writers with relevant information and tools, develops complex responses, and provides strategic writing oversight throughout the proposal lifecycle. The position is remote from anywhere within the United States. Employees working remotely must follow UnitedHealth Group’s Telecommuter Policy.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of relevant Medicaid experience.
- At least 5 years of experience in RFP management or writing.
- At least 3 years of experience writing Provider Network responses.
- At least 5 years of project management experience in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.
- Experience incorporating client vision and strategy into proposals.
- Solid writing experience, including content development and writing organization.
- Experience working in a large, matrixed organization with multiple stakeholders.
- Intermediate or greater proficiency in Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Excel.
- Demonstrated proficiency using generative AI tools for research, synthesis, drafting, and effective prompting.
- Experience navigating conflict, collaborating with stakeholders who have varied styles, and building credibility and solid relationships.
- Demonstrated problem-solving and decision-making skills amid ambiguity.
- Composure under pressure and ability to drive results in a dynamic, matrixed environment with significant organizational change, growth, and ambiguity.
- Remote employees must adhere to UnitedHealth Group’s Telecommuter Policy.
- Candidates must pass a drug test before beginning employment.
Nice To Haves
- Experience at a managed care organization (MCO).
- Strategic thinking and business acumen, with the ability to align people-related strategies and recommendations with business objectives.
- Excellent consultative, interpersonal communication, and presentation skills.
- Ability to champion continuous change, consult with versatility, demonstrate personal leadership, and model customer focus.
- Ability to drive results in a dynamic, matrixed environment with significant organizational change, growth, and ambiguity.
- Ability to analyze healthcare trends and develop solutions to address them.
- A track record of partnering with business leaders to successfully execute cross-team initiatives.
- Ability to articulate business strategies and formulate concise solutions to complex problems.
Responsibilities
- Build subject matter expertise across business functions, programs, solutions, and populations, identifying enterprise innovations, capabilities, and best practices that strengthen bid strategy and proposal writing.
- Work cross-functionally to define bid-specific writing strategy, including care model, provider network, population-specific, solution, capability, and other strategic messaging.
- Identify content gaps and opportunities and partner with cross-functional teams to develop strategies, solutions, proof points, and supporting information that improve competitive positioning.
- Analyze competitor responses, bid evaluations, and proposal performance to identify opportunities to improve future submissions and writing strategy.
- Apply national strategies, capabilities, solutions, and value propositions to proposal responses based on RFP requirements, market priorities, customer needs, and population-specific considerations.
- Develop pre-bid materials that equip writers with solution and capability information, strategic messaging, and other bid-specific resources.
- Partner cross-functionally to develop bid-specific AI tools and guidance that help writers apply strategy and messaging consistently.
- Prepare writers by content area on bid strategy, differentiators, population considerations, solution positioning, and messaging priorities before and during proposal development.
- Serve as the strategic writer for complex, high-priority, or highly integrated RFP questions requiring synthesis across functional areas, strategies, or solutions.
- Conduct strategic writing and quality reviews at defined bid milestones to strengthen consistency, responsiveness, differentiation, and the overall proposal story.
- Connect strategy across content areas so that individual responses reinforce a cohesive, differentiated bid story.
- Develop and improve strategic writing processes, tools, and resources to strengthen consistency, efficiency, and quality across proposal development.
- Advance continuous improvement of proposal development processes and contribute to departmental training on strategic writing, writing quality, subject matter knowledge, and effective use of emerging tools.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits package, subject to eligibility requirements.
- Incentive and recognition programs.
- Equity stock purchase program.
- 401(k) contribution.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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