Centennial Technologies seeks a proposal manager to lead proposal development and support federal customers. This role requires a strong understanding of effectively developing, managing, and writing winning Federal Government proposals using industry best practices.
Responsibilities include but not limited to:
- Provides oversight of proposal staff and writing teams and manages and incorporates teammate/subcontractor contributions.
- Participates in formulating and reviewing proposal win strategies/themes, discriminator development, and graphics development.
- Write and edit proposal content.
- Support graphic development for small- to large-scale strategic proposals to primarily Federal government agencies, both independently and as part of a proposal team.
- Researches and gathers data for proposal section re-use.
- Assists with appropriate use of graphics and other communication techniques.
- Assists Capture Managers with the development of achievable schedules.
- Manages compliance, quality, and the timely submission of the proposals by managing and controlling all proposal activities against the proposal schedule and the RFP’s requirements.
- Supports the development of and maintenance of a proposal resource library.
- Assist and facilitate technical approach/management approach storyboarding and writing processes, ensuring a solution coincides with win themes and business development/capture research.
- Perform detailed analysis of the proposal requirements, contributing to and understanding the high-level proposal strategy while mapping and tracking compliance.
- Create proposal-related documents such as compliance matrixes, win themes, proposal outlines, schedules, proposal-related questions to the government, storyboards, color review documents, final proposal documents, and oral presentation materials.
- Manage team members, issue data calls, and track and manage deliverables from a diverse internal technical and management personnel team.
- Develop and implement structured, repeatable proposal processes tailored to unique requirements and circumstances.
- Understand the Government source selection process (i.e., FAR, DFAR, and procurement/contracting procedures).
- Support cost-price volume development.
- Manage quick turn-around task order responses for existing IDIQ/BPA contracts.
Qualifications
The ideal candidate will possess the following qualifications and skills:
- Five or more years of relevant experience in Federal proposal coordination, management, and writing.
- Highly detail-oriented with excellent organizational and management skills.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and multi-task in a dynamic work environment.
- Demonstrated experience supporting, managing, and developing proposal volumes (technical, solution, cost, and others).
- Demonstrated experience developing and applying proposal management tools including but not limited to the following: proposal schedule, outline, compliance matrix, kick-off, storyboards, mockups, color review in-briefs and de-briefs, and others.
- Demonstrated experience applying the rigor of formal proposal processes in developing proposals.
- Possess strong time management and prioritization skills.
- Strong English language skills, excellent attention to detail, and good judgment in decision-making.
- Experience with developing oral presentations.
- Ability to perform comprehensive and unbiased compliance reviews.
- Bachelor’s degree in applicable field (English, writing, communications, business, etc.)
- Interest in and an ability to understand basic technology and process concepts.
- Proficiency in using MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint) and Adobe.
- Must be able to come to our Leesburg, VA office twice a week
About the Company
Centennial Technologies Inc. (Centennial) is committed to a healthy work-life balance for our employees, and we have worked hard to foster an environment that enables employees to effectively prioritize both their professional and personal responsibilities. We try to accommodate employees by providing flexible paid time off, a casual work atmosphere, frequent collaborative interaction, and the opportunity to continuously develop career skills.
Centennial offers a competitive benefits package, which includes Medical, Dental, Short-Term Disability, Long-Term Disability, Life Insurance, 401k, Mass Transit Benefits, Paid Time Off, and Federal Holidays.
Our Culture is inclusive of:
A supportive professional environment which promotes a healthy work-life balance
Performance Management techniques that reward our top performers
Employee surveys and discussions to inform Management’s decisions
Paid training on the latest technologies and business practices
An employee-focused model
Our team’s shared vision of client success through cultivating long-term client relationships
Equal Opportunity Employer
Centennial is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, citizenship, national origin, ancestry sexual oriented, gender identity, age, religion, creed, physical or mental disability, marital status, veteran status, political affiliation, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
