Senior Proposal Manager - Defense & Intel

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Job Description:

Make A Difference - Join our Growing Proposal Team

We believe we’re stronger and smarter when we work together. We believe in doing right by the communities we serve. And we believe this is the place for you to make a difference. Because you matter and everyone matters here at Parsons!

Our people don’t just generate big ideas – they bring them to life. In such a diverse company, you might think it would be tough to define our culture, but it’s simple. Our culture is one of collaboration! We work together on the world’s most complex mission problems, and we thrive on the satisfaction that comes with helping our clients through difficult challenges. If you think you’d like to contribute to a team that creates enduring solutions to deliver a better world, you’ll love it here.

We’ve been making the world a better place for more than 75 years, but we’re still young at heart, and it’s people like you who will keep us that way. We recognize that there’s a certain level of proficiency that only comes with years of experience, and we’re looking for people who are excited about applying that knowledge to some of the most challenging, high-profile projects in the world.

Specific Responsibilities

• Leads organization and development of complex Federal proposal responses. Assumes responsibility for leading and ensuring proposal schedule, compliance, quality, production, and delivery. Follows up in a timely manner on proposal actions.

• Facilitates strategy sessions and works with capture teams to develop solutions and identify strengths, discriminators, and proof points substantiating value.

• Provides guidance to proposal teams from inception to completion.

• Guides proposal teams in creation of orals presentations and coaches orals team to delivering highly rated presentations.

• Maintains comprehensive knowledge of past successful proposal activity and uses Parsons’ repositories to identify past content potentially relevant to current proposal efforts.

• Performs other responsibilities associated with this position as appropriate.

Professional Requirements

We’re looking for someone with strong, proven skills in the following areas:

• Leading complex proposals for Federal Government customers

• Developing proposal orals presentations and coaching orals teams

• Coaching and preparing teams in responding to sample problems in real-time.

• Familiarity with the FAR and contract terms and provisions and their application in proposals

• Time and people management

• Writing, editing, and document organization

• Interpersonal communication

• Customer service

• Organization, conceptual thinking, and attention to detail

• Effective collaboration and decision-making

• Managing, organizing, and prioritizing multiple projects

What You Will Be Doing With Us

• Lead development of compliant, comprehensive, and compelling submittals that are easy for evaluators to score

• Manage, schedule, edit, and produce multi-volume Federal proposals

• Lead the proposal team’s execution of Parsons’ proposal process, proposal content, adherence to requirements and format, and managing our proposal team’s activities create a winning submission

• Lead proposal teams in an encouraging, diplomatic, and collaborative demeanor

• Provide day-day leadership and direction of proposal resources with ability to communicate clearly with different groups and types of people

• Demonstrate ability to run a discussion that is efficient and effective

• Work collaboratively with capture manager and leadership to identify problems and risks and quickly mitigate them.

• Maintain, adjust, and enforce a schedule for the proposal team

What We Need from You (Required)

• Bachelor’s degree

• 8+ years of managing and writing/editing multi-volume proposals that have resulted in Federal prime-contract awards with values more than $50M

• In-depth understanding of how to develop compelling and compliant Government RFI, RFP, RFQ, and other solicitation respon