Senior Proposal Manager

Responsibilities

• Represent technical functionality to clients and prospects who engage the company through Requests for Proposals and questionnaires.
• Co-own legal review process for current projects
• Develop and manage project schedules; manage project progress and proactively mitigate risk across cross-functional teams
• Provide support to other associates on the team, providing feedback as necessary
• Serve as primary project lead; coordinate project governance from planning to project sign-off and acceptance
• Accountable for resource staffing and allocation for various roles needed to deliver projects on time and budget
• Serve as expert in proposal project support for sales teams; includes complex and first of a kind solution projects, proposal responses, and follow up for highly complex clients or prospects

Qualifications

Required:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent relevant work experience
• At least 5 years of proposal management experience
• At least 2 years experience managing legal review process in RFPs
• Excellent analytical and problem resolution, organization, attention to detail, time management and leadership skills
• Ability to make fast, accurate decisions based on available information
• Demonstrated experience leading and supporting project teams with diverse cross-functional participants and mitigating risks for delivery
• Ability to work under pressure in a deadline driven environment

Preferred:

• At least 2 years industry experience in healthcare IT or IT proposals
• Understanding of technical and IT related concepts and/or technical writing experience
• Project Management Professional or similar project management certification
• Experience with RFP cloud-based proposal response platforms such as Responsive, RFP360, or Proposify