Senior Manager – Proposals (State & Local Government)

Job Introduction

Are you a Senior Proposal Manager who enjoys the challenge of proposal management, providing guidance to develop compelling responses, and working on a collaborative team? Are you looking for an opportunity to work with an established company that values its employees' enthusiasm, contributions, and work/life balance? Maximus has an exciting career opportunity for a Senior Proposal Manager position within the U.S. Services Proposal Operations Team.The primary responsibility will be to manage a team including executives to plan and deliver responsive and compelling proposals to a wide range of State & Local Government clients throughout the U.S. This position manages the full proposal development lifecycle including RFP analysis, proposal management plans, schedules, content reviews ensuring 100% compliant responses, conducting color reviews, and working with production through delivery, as well as post submission client requests. This position requires the ability to work with persons in various roles providing guidance on bid strategy, win themes, value propositions, and other elements of response writing to produce a compelling, winning proposal.We encourage you to apply for this opportunity. Maximus is dedicated to providing the atmosphere to allow individuals to grow their career. We offer an extremely varied and interesting diversity of clients and projects with an opportunity to learn new things every day. We’d love you to join our team of friendly, hard-working dedicated and collaborative professionals. Our ideal candidate is seeking challenging work and the opportunity to make a difference.

Job Summary

• Demonstrates effective leadership within—and external to—the Proposal Operations Team
• Creates a positive work environment, demonstrates a professional attitude, and meets established goals and responsibilities while working in cooperation with colleagues.
• Manages teams to deliver solicitation responses including assistance with problem solving and advising when called upon or based on own intuition
• Assists in educational and training efforts for new team members in various roles to effectively contribute to response development
• Adhere to internal processes and works with team to adjust as needed and within guidelines to provide final, compliant, and compelling responses on time
• Analyze government solicitations, identify response requirements and prepare unique, tailored and detailed proposal response outlines, templates and compliance matrices in compliance with government agency requirements, making associated proposal process and content judgments
• Work with a full team of varying roles leading them from start to finish and guiding them to full compliance and compelling responses with delivery on time
• Sets and facilitates effective, efficient meetings and reviews for full response cycle
• Initiates and ensures solicitation, submittal, and response pieces are reviewed as needed by legal/contracts, privacy, and insurance staff, working with capture manager
• Works with team to assist on win theme development and integration throughout the response
• Ensures completion of all required forms
• Reviews and edits or guides authors on sections as needed
• May manage the development and production of proposals and oral presentations
• Manage Sharepoint bid sites as needed to facilitate response development and filing of all submitted files with accuracy, client acknowledgements, clarifications, BAFOs, lessons learned, Client debriefs, etc.
• Coordinates with and supports graphics and production efforts. May be required to do desktop publishing on small and short-turn proposals as the workload requires.
• Facilitates white glove and full book checks and fixes, communicates delivery plan, and ensures on time production
• Regularly interact with senior management and executive levels on matters concerning several functional areas, divisions, and/or customers, and escalate appropriately and professionally
• Experience in assisting teams to change the thinking of or gain acceptance from others in sensitive situations, without damage to the relationship
• Provides strategic insight and participates in developing, modifying and executing company and departmental policies and procedures that may affect immediate operations and have company-wide effect
• May manage multiple proposals in the same timeframe
• Other duties as assigned

Minimum Requirements:

• Experience as a Proposal Manager specifically for State and Local Government solicitations for 10 or more years
• Bachelor’s degree or demonstrated equivalent experience
• Management and project experience with personnel and teams comprised from multiple departments with attention to internal