Proposal Manager - Transportation
About the role
- Support Transportation pursuit managers on pre-marketing efforts and participates in go/no go process
- Collaborate with Transportation pursuit managers in strategic planning that includes evaluating pre-marketing intelligence, identifying customer concerns and key issues, and developing win strategies
- Manage the proposal teams, including coordinators and specialists
- Be versed in Transportation Division strategic and business plans
- Coordinate the production of compliant proposals, following proposal management process
- Coordinate with technical staff and subconsultants development of proposal content and information
- Coordinate with graphic designers to develop graphic elements for the proposals or presentations
- Analyze debriefs and apply lessons learned to add value to strategy and reviews
- Facilitate proposal production planning meetings
- Coordinate presentation production
- Participate in presentation practices and assist during rehearsals
- Ensure quality of all produced material including messages, consistency, spelling, and grammar
- Proactively lead the update effort of resumes, project descriptions, project photos, and additional boilerplate material
- Responsible for page-turned quality control
- Assist coaching proposal coordinators in WGI's proposal production process
- Strategic thinking, message development, and problem-solving
- Thorough understanding of effective proposal and presentation best practices and tools, including how to convey messages, themes, differentiators, and responses to evaluation criteria clearly and effectively
- Strong proposal writing and editing skills, including grammar and style
- Very strong organizational and time management skills
- Ability to work and coordinate efforts across the firm's geographic reach
- Professional demeanor and excellent interpersonal skills
- Work ownership, accountability, reliability, a positive "can-do" attitude, and eagerness to learn and contribute to the team
- Assertive, resourceful, problem solver
- Must be able to adjust to multiple, concurrent deadlines and delegate
- Attention to detail and ability to provide feedback constructively
- Intermediate/Advanced skills in Adobe software (InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, and Acrobat)
- Intermediate/Advanced skills in Microsoft Office software (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Teams)
- Effective use of AI a plus
- Must be flexible and willing to work overtime when needed
- Knowledge, Experience, and Other Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree preferably in English, Communications, Journalism, or Marketing
- Minimum 5 years of experience in the A/E/C industry preparing proposals for federal, state, and municipal clients
- Must have the ability to work well with others (e.g., supervisor, department managers, project managers, proposal coordinators, and anyone involved in business development efforts)
- Pre-employment drug screening is a condition of employment
- Knowledge and Experience Desired:
- Experience preparing proposals for Transportation services, including FDOT, NCDOT, and/or TxDOTExperience with strategic initiatives and delegation
- Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the U.S. on a full-time basis. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of employment visas
- Physical Demands
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