Job Description
As a Pursuit lead on our team you will:
- Manage pursuit teams to develop proposal responses and oral presentations
- Lead proposal opportunities, providing support to the proposal writing/design team and account team
- Make significant contribution to the development and continuous improvement of proposal management processes, tools, and templates
- Synthesize data from all sources, determine essential areas and apply results to pursuit effort. Demonstrate a high level of comprehension and application in delivering proposal content.
- Provide the leadership, methodologies, procedures, tools, and templates to support proposal development efforts
- Appropriately support pursuit team in developing win themes and messaging that supports established win themes.Identify gaps in approach and makes effective recommendations.
- Adjust to shifting priorities, stringent deadlines, last minute requirements, and occasional evening/weekend hours to accomplish tasks within non-negotiable client deadlines
- Demonstrate confidence and maintain focus on top priority actionable items.
- Work with leadership to navigate team dynamics to achieve meeting outcomes.
- Mentor others in developing their facilitative skills
- Create proposal and presentation outlines to obtain buy-in from the team early in the process
- Perform additional analysis of all mandatory requirements and evaluation criteria to expand on the base requirements
- Introduce and share best in class content and examples with pursuit teams.
Qualifications
Required
- Have approximately 6-9 years of work experience with minimum of five (3-5) years in proposal management/proposal development
- Master’s in Business Administration (MBA)/ Technology
- 2+ years’ experience in supervising teams
Skills
- Experience in leading large and complex proposals
- Diversity of experience in large corporate organizations and small business concerns
- Excellent communicator – both written and oral
- Experience leading teams in strategic and tactical discussions
- Ability to Gather information through appropriate technologies and network; analyze data to create content to best position the pursuit team
- Proficiency in Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and Excel
- A team player with an outstanding ability to work with people at all levels, including senior executives
- Demonstrated ability to influence others, from staff to senior leaders through a strong presence, thoughtful challenges, and use of sound judgment
- Strong interpersonal skills, including aptitude for building relationships, understanding team dynamics, taking initiative, and solving problems
- Keen listener, with the ability to quickly grasp ideas to be reflected in written documents and presentations
- Ability to read situations and adapt leadership style to achieve results
- Ability to work with grace and efficiency in a demanding, deadline-driven environment
- Team-oriented with a proven ability to manage multiple projects at once
- Demonstrated initiative and problem-solving ability
- Attention to detail and exceptional follow-up skills
- Ability to analyze information and make sound observations and recommendations quickly