Proposal Management Manager

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent Experience
• Proven success leading teams, including proposal or project teams, of greater than 6 team members.
• 4+ years of proposal management experience, and/or experience with proposal management processes and procedures.
• Demonstrated strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Experience leading diverse, multi-disciplinary teams.
• Must work well in a deadline-driven environment and demonstrate excellent time management and organizational skills.
• Able to travel as required.
• US Citizen with ability to obtain a security clearance.

Job Description

Strategy & Business Development’s (S&BD) Capture Excellence (CE) team is seeking a Proposal Management Manager to lead a team of proposal professionals. You and your team will support Lockheed Martin Space’s proposal and program efforts to ensure timely completion of compelling and compliant deliverables in response to customer acquisitions. The Proposal Management Manager partners with other S&BD leaders to field, assess, and meet Business Development, MSAC, and Line of Business proposal and capture support requests. This individual is responsible for implementing and maintaining consistent Proposal Management practices and procedures to ensure a OneLM culture is modeled throughout Lockheed Martin Space.

Other Responsibilities

• Support CE in its mission to produce compelling, compliant proposals.
• Model Lockheed Martin’s Full Spectrum Leadership (FSL) values.
• Manage and coach Proposal Management professionals to hone their technical and professional skills.
• Assign proposal management staff across CE for virtual and in-person capture efforts.
• Partner with senior leadership and peer leaders to ensure a balanced and effective Proposal Management workload.
• Understand employees’ capabilities and help them advance their skills.
• Monitor employees’ progress against proposal goals to ensure adequate support is being provided both to the employees and the proposal team.
• Communicate effectively with employees at multiple organizational levels.
• Excellent written and verbal presentation skills are needed.
• Keep current on new, innovative proposal processes, tools, or technologies.
• Efficiently and effectively communicate and implement approved changes.
• Navigate difficult situations and conversations to a productive outcome.
• Lead special projects as assigned.

Desired Skills

• Active TS/SCI clearance.
• Master’s degree from an accredited college.
• Shipley Proposal Management Training or Certification.
• Association of Proposal Management Professionals (APMP) Certification.

Other Important Information

By applying to this job, you are expressing interest in this position and could be considered for other career opportunities where similar skills and requirements have been identified as a match. Should this match be identified you may be contacted for this and future openings.

Ability to Work Remotely

Onsite Full-time: The work associated with this position will be performed onsite at a designated Lockheed Martin facility.