Proposal Operations Manager (Remote)

About the role

Pursue a career where you thrive, work with exceptional people, and be yourself. Guided by our leadership vision of valuing people, embracing agility, and fostering growth, we cultivate an innovative culture that empowers you to achieve your full potential.

What You'll Be Doing

• In this hybrid role, you’ll be both a People Leader and a Proposal Leader.
• You’ll split your time between hands-on proposal leadership and people leadership.
• As a true player-coach, you set the bar for excellence and lead by example, managing high-visibility federal pursuits and building the team’s skills, processes, and confidence.
• Foster a culture of open communication, collaboration, and innovation—encourage new ideas, drive continuous improvement, and keep the team accountable and engaged.
• Proactively manage stakeholder relationships (capture, business development, operations) and keep senior leadership in the loop on strategies, risks, and progress—bring insights that boost win rates and improve how we run proposal operations.
• Address and resolve issues, mediate conflicts, and remove roadblocks—maintain a positive people-first culture that inspires your team to succeed.
• Support team growth by recruiting, interviewing, selecting, onboarding, training, and mentoring proposal professionals—be intentional about building and developing talent.

What Required Skills You'll Bring

• Strong leadership, facilitation, and communication skills, with the ability to bring out the best in people and keep raising the bar; you’re excited to coach, upskill, and stretch a team with a wide range of experience and strengths.
• A strong understanding of the federal market space; and ability to lead highly visible, complex pursuits.
• Demonstrated organizational, planning, and time-management skills; you can juggle a lot at once, troubleshoot on the fly, calmly de-escalate tense moments, step in to lead when needed, and make solid decisions under pressure.
• Proven ability to build and sustain trusted relationships with capture leaders, operations, technical teams, and executives; you know how to connect, influence, and keep everyone aligned.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including facilitation and public speaking, with a track record of leading successful federal proposal efforts; you’re comfortable being the voice in the room (or on the call) that keeps things moving.
• Deep Federal experience, especially leading large, complex proposals for customers such as DHS, CBP, FEMA, DoD, DoE, FAA, and other Civilian and Intelligence agencies; you know how these customers think and what it takes to win.

What Desired Skills You'll Bring

• Around 10 years of progressive proposal management experience, including 3–5 years leading people in a federal proposal or business development environment; you’ve grown your career by growing others.
• A four-year degree in a relevant field, or a comparable mix of education and experience; we care about what you know and how you apply it.
• Professional credentials such as APMP (any level), PMP, or Shipley training/certification are a big plus; you take your craft seriously and invest in it.
• Security clearance desired but not required; the ability to obtain one is a serious plus.

Pay

$112,200.00 - $196,400.00

Schedule

Hybrid

Benefits

We value our employees and want our employees to take care of their overall wellbeing, which is why we offer best-in-class benefits such as medical, dental, vision, paid time off, Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP), 401(k), life insurance, flexible work schedules, and holidays to fit your busy lifestyle!

Qualifications

This position is part of our Corporate team. For over 80 years, Parsons Corporation, has shaped the future of the defense, intelligence, and critical infrastructure markets. Our employees work in a close-knit team environment to find new, innovative ways to deliver smart solutions that are used and valued by customers around the world. By combining unique technologies with deep domain expertise across cybersecurity, missile defense, space, connected infrastructure, transportation, smart cities, and more, we're providing tomorrow's solutions today.

Skills

Four-year degree in a relevant field, or a comparable mix of education and experience; we care about what you know and how you apply it.

Around 10 years of progressive proposal management experience, including 3–5 years leading people in a federal proposal or business development environment; you’ve grown your career by growing others.

Professional credentials such as APMP (any level), PMP, or Shipley training/certification are a big plus; you take your craft seriously and invest in it.

Security clearance desired but not required; the ability to obtain one is a serious plus.