Proposal Manager - Architecture/Engineering Industry

Moffatt & Nichol is seeking a dynamic individual to join our team of marketing professionals and support the firm's business development efforts. This role leads and supports marketing pursuits across the company which offers multi-discipline services to transportation, ports & harbors, energy, federal, and private clients throughout the world. Proposal Managers are responsible for leading the development of pursuit strategies and persuasive deliverables that differentiate and create a competitive advantage for our firm. We are open to candidates near our Raleigh, Georgia, or Florida offices.

Moffatt & Nichol is a global infrastructure advisory firm with 40+ offices in 9 countries. We are currently ranked Engineering News Record #1 for Marine & Port Facilities and Top 20 for Transportation. We provide practical solutions to clients in the marine terminal, transportation, energy, environmental, federal, and urban development markets around the world. We are a multidiscipline professional services firm with specialized expertise in structural, coastal, and civil engineering; environmental sciences; economics analysis; inspection and rehabilitation; and program management solutions.

Duties and responsibilities:

• Manage proposals, statements of qualification, and pursuit deliverables from capture planning through to shortlist presentation development and coaching
• Coordinate, write, edit, and produce statements of qualification, proposals, presentations and collateral marketing materials
• Collaborate with project managers, key engineering and planning staff, graphic designers, and fellow marketers to ensure deliverables meet client needs and RFP/RFQ requirements
• Guide pursuit/proposal teams in developing and refining winning strategies and themes, compelling messages, and persuasive benefit/differentiator pairs
• Develop and write persuasive messages based on information from independent research, meetings with proposal team members, and knowledge of organization capabilities and services
• Consolidate team input into clear and effective responses, write executive summaries and non-technical content, tailor project and resume information to the specific needs of each pursuit and client
• Provide preliminary and final quality control check of materials, including proofreading for grammar, request for proposal (RFP) compliance, and conformance to proposal strategies and win themes
• Collaborate with graphic designers to develop visual themes that support winning strategies and appropriately address target audience
• Manage and coach large teams of professionals on presentation skills
• Contribute to the firm's newsletter, internal and external communications, award submittals, white papers, industry articles, and conference presentations

Other duties:

Please note this job posting is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in English, Marketing, Communications, Business, or related discipline; required
• 5-15 years of professional proposal writing management, in the infrastructure engineering or architectural industry; required
• High level of proficiency in Microsoft Office and Adobe Creative Suite, particularly InDesign; required
• Experience and success working in a demanding, deadline-driven environment with professionalism, efficiency, and attention to detail
• Demonstrated initiative, follow-through, researching, and problem-solving ability
• Client service-oriented
• All new hires will be required to successfully complete and pass a pre-employment (post offer) background check in compliance with NIST 800-171
• Moffatt & Nichol uses E-Verify and employment is contingent upon the legal ability to obtain employment in the U.S. and to present the required documentation at hire

Physical requirements:

Sit for long periods of time, frequently interact with team members via email, video conference, and phone, and travel occasionally.

Moffatt & Nichol's EEO Statement:

As a global business, Moffatt & Nichol relies on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our goal of Creative People, Practical solutions serving our client needs, and ensures nondiscrimination in all activities in accordance with Title VII of the Civil rights Act of 1964. We continuously seek talented, qualified employees in our world-wide operations regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, pregnancy, national origin, religion, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, protected veteran status, or any other protected classification under country or local law. Moffatt & Nichol is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Employer/ Federal Contractor desiring priority referrals of all protected veterans for job openings.

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