Senior Marketing Proposal Writer

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About the role

The members of the Pursuit Strategy & Proposal Team serve as strategic partners in helping the firm develop, win, and retain business. Working in a fast-paced and creative environment, we write and design business proposals and presentations to support the firm’s business development and pursuit of new opportunities. We are seeking a candidate with strong skills in persuasive communications, writing, sales, strategy, project management, and marketing.

Responsibilities

• Proposal and pursuit strategy management – Lead the pursuit process, from start to finish, by developing sales strategies and writing persuasive messages based on information from research profiles, meetings with client service professionals, meetings with target companies’ staff and management, and knowledge of the firm’s offerings. Collaborate with pursuit teams and manage large teams of service providers and stakeholders. Create proposals, RFP responses, presentations, and other sales deliverables.
• Project management – Serve as the central point of contact and lead project manager for assigned proposals while simultaneously managing multiple proposals and pursuit deliverables. Facilitate large teams of client service professionals, graphic design team resources, marketing professionals, and other pursuit resources to produce deliverables. Deliver a comprehensive response on time that best positions the firm as the first-choice while maintaining compliance with RFP process and proposal directives. Simultaneously manage multiple pursuits, proposals, presentations, and pursuit deliverables.
• Persuasive content creation – Develop and write persuasive messages based on information from pursuit research, customer personas/profiles, buyer journey/buyer group staging, meetings with client service professionals, communications with customer’s staff and management, prior pursuit experiences, and strong knowledge of the firm’s offerings. Engage and collaborate with additional firm resources as necessary to produce quality deliverables by the deadline.
• Finalist presentations – Lead and facilitate the pursuit/RFP finalist presentation preparation process to support the win strategy; if a multi-stage process, lead and facilitate all stages until selection is made. Develop talking points and presentation deliverables in collaboration with presenters. Effectively lead and coach internal “dry runs” prior to presentation date; provide constructive feedback to presenters; finalize presentation materials.

Requirements

• Minimum of 6+ years of increasing responsibility and demonstrable business writing experience, including the development of proposals in a professional services or corporate environment
• Bachelor’s Degree in Marketing, Business Administration, English, Journalism, Communications, or other related subject area from an accredited college or university
• Advanced Microsoft Office, Word, and PowerPoint skills
• Literacy with AI use in a professional business environment (CoPilot)
• QorusDocs experience preferred, not required

This is a non-exempt position, so you may have to work hours that exceed the standard 40-hour work week.

Benefits

We are pleased to offer eligible staff a robust benefits package. Eligibility and contribution requirements for some of these benefits vary based on the number of hours staff work per week. Highlights include:

• Health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance
• Flexible Time Off and various pre-determined holidays
• 401(k) plan and flexible benefits plans
• Business-related travel expense, lodging, and meal reimbursement for business-related use
• Pension plan available for eligible administrative and paraprofessional staff
• Discretionary bonus plan for eligible staff
• Some contingent staff positions may elect health insurance and receive limited paid sick time

Pay

The compensation range reflects the base salary we reasonably expect to pay for this position across our offices in the following regions: CO, IL, OH, and MA. The range for this role in these regions is: $82,000.00 - $120,000.00.

Under Colorado’s Job Application Fairness Act, you have the right to redact, from any documents that you submit in connection with your application, information that identifies your age, date of birth, or dates of attendance at or graduation from an educational institution.

Schedule

Plante Moran enjoys a “Workplace for Your Day” model which strives for flexibility and balance while staying true to a principally in-person model. We believe that face-to-face interactions are paramount for individual and collective development, but also encourage individuals to work with their supervisor and team to determine their optimal working environment each day.