Overview
Proposal Manager - Fully remote at GP Strategies Corporation. The role drives pre‑RFP strategy, facilitates internal workshops, and manages the proposal lifecycle with project discipline. Responsibilities include setting win themes, conducting color‑team/gate reviews, and delivering compelling submissions and presentations. You will deploy generative AI to compress timelines, strengthen compliance, and improve quality while enhancing stakeholder engagement and win‑rate metrics.
Key Responsibilities
- Shape pursuits pre‑RFP: develop communication plans, competitor and stakeholder analyses; translate into win themes and storyboards.
- Design and facilitate decisive workshops producing clear decisions, actions, and ownership.
- Own end‑to‑end schedule and delivery: critical‑path planning, dependency and change control, risk management, and on‑time submission.
- Write, edit, and architect evaluator‑centric narratives; set document structure, look & feel; brief designers and run final quality gates.
- Operationalise GenAI across the pursuit: prompt patterns, grounded answering/retrieval, critique loops; maintain prompt/answer libraries for reuse.
- Build/maintain light agents to automate intake triage, boilerplate retrieval, compliance checks, and meeting prep; track adoption and impact.
- Curate best‑practice content and case evidence for intelligent reuse; maintain versioning and metadata hygiene for rapid assembly.
- Run post‑pursuit lessons learned and analytics on cycle time, iteration count, and compliance/quality issues; feed improvements back into the team.
Skills And Experience Required
- Demonstrable experience managing complex pursuits/proposals with mastery of the end‑to‑end bid lifecycle.
- Facilitation excellence
- Ruthless project/programme management
- GenAI fluency for proposals (prompting, grounded answer generation, critique/improve loops) and willingness to build light agents
- Compelling writing and editorial discipline; ability to partner with designers to elevate structure, visuals, and brand alignment.
- Stakeholder influence at senior levels; calm, candid, and data‑driven under tight deadlines.
- Advanced Microsoft 365 (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Teams); strong habits for version control and secure collaboration.
- Fluent in English (verbal/written).
Desirable Skills And Experience
- Proven experience collaborating with Marketing and/or Revenue Operations functions
- Experience coordinating global, multi‑cultural pursuits and orals
- Interest in and understanding of bid and pursuit best practices and industry developments
About Us
GP Strategies Corporation is one of the world\\\'s leading talent transformation providers. By delivering award‑winning learning and development solutions, we help organizations transform through their people and achieve meaningful change. GP Strategies has delivered consulting, learning services, and talent technology solutions to over 6,000 organizations globally. With more than 4000 employees in over 30 countries, GP Strategies is committed to equal opportunity and values diversity. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other federally protected class.
Seniority level
- Mid-Senior level
Employment type
- Full-time
Job function
- Other
Industries
- Business Consulting and Services
