**Proposal Manager**
**Description**
Within Conduent, Buck Consultants brings the full spectrum of human resource, benefits, and healthcare consulting to our advisory, technology, and administration solutions. Here you’ll discover an innovative, high-energy environment that inspires top achievement. As a prestigious highly successful leader in providing employee benefit, actuarial, outsourcing and HR management consulting services, we have the strong resources, solid reputation and global reach to enrich your work life and enhance your career.
**Proposal Manager**
**Responsibilities of the Position:**
**Accountable for the following activities:**
* Works on a variety of proposals (RFP, RFI, etc.) to produce winning results.
* Works on all aspects of proposal development for strategic or high-value sales opportunities
* plans to publish a winning proposal with a compelling story for a given opportunity. Scope of responsibility includes all required responses to RFP.
* Maintains understanding of bid strategies as they evolve; develops methods for integrating and capturing final bid strategy in the proposal
* Applies proposal process, methodology and best practices
* Maintains compliance with requirements, internal controls, external regulations (e.g., procurement process), and sales methodology
* Develops, scores, and maintains compliance matrix; including compliance with sales methodology.
* Coordinate with multiple organizations, including but not limited to Marketing, Contracts, Legal, Pricing, etc. to ensure the response is consistent
* Creates, manages and maintains proposal development schedule, proposal design, and executes quality control functions
* Responsible for all daily proposal management activities, including development of work plans, schedules and milestones
* Facilitates development of all written components of the proposal
* Creates RFP outline, including page allocation, based on weight of evaluation criteria
* Implements processes to manage output from proposal resources specifically to RFP criteria
* Ensures proposal structure complies with RFP requirements
* Provides first draft of proposal that includes draft cover letter, Executive Summary, answers (target 75% accuracy), bios, and relevant attachments
* Contributes to the improvement of proposal processes and resources
**Requirements/Skills Sought (years of experience, education, certification, etc.):**
* Thorough and detail oriented, organized, with excellent time management skills
* Ability to take ownership of the entire proposal and ensure a compelling and consistent message
* Strong project management skills
* Expert in Microsoft Word
* Competent in Microsoft Office Suite, SharePoint, and Adobe Acrobat Pro
* Strong proposal design skills to communicate information with impact
* Ability to juggle simultaneous bids at various stages and with various complexities
* Ability to manage subcontractors/teaming partners, sales, consultants, subject matter experts
* Ability to understand customer RFP requirements and ensure they are addressed in proposal
* Command presence to ensure proposal teams remain calm and focused during stressful time constraints
**Key Success Factors (specific expectations):**
**Measures of Success:**
* Consistently meets proposal deadlines and generates winning quality content.
Conduent is an Equal Opportunity Employer and considers applicants for all positions without regard to race, color, creed, religion, ancestry, national origin, age, gender identity, sex, marital status, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, use of a guide dog or service animal, military/veteran status, citizenship status, basis of genetic information, or any other group protected by law. People with disabilities who need a reasonable accommodation to apply or compete for employment with Conduent Business Services or one of its subsidiaries may request such accommodation(s) by sending an e-mail to accommodations@Conduent.com . Be sure to include your name, the job you are interested in, and the accommodation you are seeking.
**Job** Pricing, Bid or Contract Management
**Primary Location** United States-TX-Dallas
**Organization** Buck Consulting
**Unposting Date** Ongoing
**Virtual/work from home?** Yes