Sr. Proposal Writer

The company is a leading AI-powered technology solutions provider for North America's most innovative public and private organizations. For over 30 years, NWN has delivered technology modernization programs to over 5,000 CIOs with its Intelligent Workplace, Customer Experience (CX), Managed Devices, Cybersecurity and Public Safety, Connectivity, and Intelligent Cloud solutions. The company's proprietary Experience Management Platform ensures seamless service delivery, real-time observability, and improved efficiency for demanding technology needs. NWN is a high-performance, high-integrity team of 1,000+ experts committed to a customer-obsessed culture, earning a 75 Customer Net Promoter Score. The company has been recognized with hundreds of industry awards and is proud to be a 'Best Place to Work' with an 86 Employee Net Promoter Score.

Responsibilities

• Leads the development of compliant, persuasive RFX proposals by coordinating inputs, drafting and formatting content, and tracking schedules and requirements to meet deadlines.
• Maintains templates and standard materials to improve proposal efficiency and consistency.
• Lead development of strategic, compliant, and compelling proposal responses for RFPs, RFQs, RFIs, and other complex client requests.
• Analyze solicitation documents to identify requirements, evaluation criteria, win themes, risks, and differentiators, and translate findings into response strategy.
• Lead proposal kickoff calls, content planning sessions, and review cycles (e.g., pink/red/gold team reviews).
• Partner with sales, solution architects, SMEs, recruiting, legal, and finance to develop accurate and competitive responses.
• Ensure adherence to compliance requirements, formatting standards, and submission instructions.
• Lead the development and ongoing management of reusable proposal content, including boilerplate, case studies, past performance, resumes, and solution descriptions.
• Identify content gaps and coordinate with SMEs to create new standardized, high-impact content assets.
• Drive content reuse strategy to improve proposal efficiency, scalability, and consistency across submissions.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated ability to lead complex proposals and manage multiple concurrent deadlines.
• Strong writing, editing, and storytelling skills with exceptional attention to detail.
• Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Word and proposal development tools.
• Experience developing and managing reusable content libraries or knowledge repositories.
• Strong collaboration and stakeholder management skills across cross-functional teams.
• Bachelor’s degree in English, Communications, Journalism, Marketing, Business, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• Prioritize public-sector or regulated procurements experience.
• Familiarity with RFP/RFI/ITN structures and compliance matrices.
• Exposure to technology, IT services, or managed services environments.