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Proposal Services - Senior Proposal Manager
DudekUnited States - Remote, United StatesRemotefull_timeVerifiedPosted 3 May 2024
💰 $150,000/yr($130,000/yr – $150,000/yr)
About the role
Who We Are
Dudek is a leading environmental, planning, and engineering firm that help public and private clients plan, design, and build projects that improve communities’ built and natural infrastructure. Founded in 1980, Dudek has grown steadily to more than 800 professionals across the U.S. and received the Top Workplace Award for 2024.
As a 100% employee-owned company, Dudek’s culture rewards smart, productive team members with ownership, professional development, and financial benefits. We seek creative, pragmatic problem-solvers working at the intersection of science, engineering, regulations, and multiple stakeholders’ interest to help clients achieve project goals.
We encourage collaboration, sustainability, and innovation.
At Dudek, we abide by shared values:
Trust: We trust each other to use good judgment.
Respect: We act professionally and treat each other fairly.
Teamwork: We come together, share openly, and apply diverse perspectives.
Fun: We take our work seriously…not ourselves.
Well-Being: We care about each other’s health, safety, and total wellness.
Our culture is the foundation of who we are and how we work. We empower our employee-owners to invest in our local communities and themselves through initiatives that make Dudek a great place to work! Our cultural programs include:
About The Job
Dudek’s Proposal Services Senior Manager is a hands-on strategic role that implements the vision of the proposal team under the direction of the Vice President of Marketing to serve current and future states of proposals. The Senior Proposal Manager supports developing processes, tools, and programs for the continued growth of the team to meet the strategic marketing needs of the company. Responsibilities include managing, training, and mentoring staff while managing workload processes and assignment allocation. The ideal candidate is a dynamic marketer with experience supporting a fast-paced proposal workload and team; has strong writing and communication skills; has a problem-solving attitude; and ensures incoming work requests are met and delivered on time and according to quality standards. Previous supervisory and staff management experience is required as this role is responsible for supervising a multi-state, hybrid proposal team. Activities may also include leading highly strategic, complex opportunities for multi-disciplinary teams completing diverse and concurrent tasks and participating as a key member of task teams supporting cross-departmental initiatives that drive Dudek's strategic direction.
Learn more about the projects you will have the opportunity to shape.
Who You Are
To thrive at Dudek, you should be comfortable with accountability, collaboration, flexibility while being a resourceful and independent thinker. We look for curious, solution-focused people who can adapt quickly to an ever-changing industry. There is no single way to solve a problem, so we encourage innovation.
Duties and Responsibilities (may include some or all of the below):
Dudek is a leading environmental, planning, and engineering firm that help public and private clients plan, design, and build projects that improve communities’ built and natural infrastructure. Founded in 1980, Dudek has grown steadily to more than 800 professionals across the U.S. and received the Top Workplace Award for 2024.
As a 100% employee-owned company, Dudek’s culture rewards smart, productive team members with ownership, professional development, and financial benefits. We seek creative, pragmatic problem-solvers working at the intersection of science, engineering, regulations, and multiple stakeholders’ interest to help clients achieve project goals.
We encourage collaboration, sustainability, and innovation.
At Dudek, we abide by shared values:
Trust: We trust each other to use good judgment.
Respect: We act professionally and treat each other fairly.
Teamwork: We come together, share openly, and apply diverse perspectives.
Fun: We take our work seriously…not ourselves.
Well-Being: We care about each other’s health, safety, and total wellness.
Our culture is the foundation of who we are and how we work. We empower our employee-owners to invest in our local communities and themselves through initiatives that make Dudek a great place to work! Our cultural programs include:
- DuGreen: Our sustainability initiative, which works to improve our environmental footprint
- DuGood: Our philanthropic initiative, which seeks to support the communities in which we live and work through fundraising challenges, office-based giving and opportunity to take a paid volunteer day each year.
- eDUcate: Our educational outreach program where we aim to foster interest in our work and careers in the environmental and engineering field by participating in educational events in our communities.
- DuWell: Our wellness initiative, aimed at providing education on wellness, benefit resources, and preventive care.
- Women at Dudek
- Members of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer (LGBTQ+) community
- Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) employees
- Disabled employees (all disabilities, seen / unseen)
About The Job
Dudek’s Proposal Services Senior Manager is a hands-on strategic role that implements the vision of the proposal team under the direction of the Vice President of Marketing to serve current and future states of proposals. The Senior Proposal Manager supports developing processes, tools, and programs for the continued growth of the team to meet the strategic marketing needs of the company. Responsibilities include managing, training, and mentoring staff while managing workload processes and assignment allocation. The ideal candidate is a dynamic marketer with experience supporting a fast-paced proposal workload and team; has strong writing and communication skills; has a problem-solving attitude; and ensures incoming work requests are met and delivered on time and according to quality standards. Previous supervisory and staff management experience is required as this role is responsible for supervising a multi-state, hybrid proposal team. Activities may also include leading highly strategic, complex opportunities for multi-disciplinary teams completing diverse and concurrent tasks and participating as a key member of task teams supporting cross-departmental initiatives that drive Dudek's strategic direction.
Learn more about the projects you will have the opportunity to shape.
Who You Are
To thrive at Dudek, you should be comfortable with accountability, collaboration, flexibility while being a resourceful and independent thinker. We look for curious, solution-focused people who can adapt quickly to an ever-changing industry. There is no single way to solve a problem, so we encourage innovation.
Duties and Responsibilities (may include some or all of the below):
Team Management
- Manages team members virtually and in-person as leader of the proposals team
- Leads proposal staff meetings, participates in Marketing and Communications leadership meetings, and implements initiatives and programs that support digital and traditional marketing and business development activities
- Manages staffing for the proposal team,
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