Proposal Manager

Overview About Us

Working across the globe, V2X builds smart solutions designed to integrate physical and digital infrastructure from base to battlefield. We bring 120 years of successful mission support to improvesecurity, streamline logistics, and enhance readiness. Aligned around a shared purpose, our $3.9B company and 16,000 people work alongside our clients, here and abroad, to tackle their most complex challenges with integrity, respect, responsibility, and professionalism.

What You’ll Do:

Responsible for proposal team guidance, preparation, training, and development through proposal submittal as required. Responsible for the overall management of specific proposal volumes or total proposal efforts for assigned new business opportunity(ies) and/or competitive renewal(s) of current contract(s). Provides management coordination with corporate staff departments, appropriate operations (project) management, and the other assigned business development resources. Responsible for RFP compliance throughout the proposal process.

Supervises activities of technical specialists, writers, production personnel, and others assigned to the proposal team.

• Responsible for the overall management of assigned efforts to include quality and compliance of the submitted proposal.
• Identifies resources for proposal preparation and reviews.
• Manages and directs personnel assigned to the proposal team to ensure that all management, technical, contractual, and costing inputs meet both customer and V2X Management requirements.
• Analyzes the scope and objectives of RFP and coordinates with the Capture Team on the organized competitive approach in responses to customer requirements and corporate interests.
• Develops and maintains schedule discipline for all assigned proposals. Establishes proposal operations tempo through regular internal coordination meetings (e.g., standup/status meetings).
• Ensures comprehensive reviews of written material.
• Maintains strict compliance with V2X policies and procedures relating to Business Ethics and Code of Conduct, in addition to the specific procurement regulations established by the Federal Government.
• Participates with the Capture Team to develop the overall proposal strategy, themes, discriminators, and operations concept to be used in the proposal.
• Facilitates information gathering meetings with program and technical SMEs for the technical writers.
• Identifies and prepares special proposal requirements affecting legal, purchasing, contracts, teaming, human resources, and accounting. Briefs department managers on program highlights.
• Determines a specific approach to assure a responsive and competitive proposal in terms of overall concept. Establishes initial program management, organization, manning, and costing procedures.
• Prepares proposal plan, including detailed outline, storyboards/mock-ups, compliance with RFP, management and technical volumes, Proposal Team responsibilities, flow diagrams and schedule, checklists, and reviews.
• Conducts a short training program as part of the proposal kickoff detailing the proposal process strategy, discriminators, themes, charts, and benefits to be employed throughout the proposal.
• Reviews daily input from technical writers and subject matter experts to ensure RFP and win theme compliance and provides daily feedback.
• Provides input to review teams and ensures incorporation of approved Red and Gold Team comments/recommendations.
• Supports the Capture team with bid review charts and final presentation to the President and Senior Staff, to include justification of technical and cost validity at Corporate reviews.
• Participates with the Capture Team in evaluating business opportunities and recommending bid/no bid positions.
• Responsible for proposal notifications to V2X Group Officers, when required.
• Supports presentations to the customer.
• Maintains currency and fluency in state-of-the-art techniques and practices.
• Prepares technical write-ups and briefs for presentation to potential customers.
• Prepare a regular status of current assignments (oral and written).
• Instills partnership and teamwork with Capture Managers and the entire…