
Senior Manager, Proposal Management
Anthology Careers
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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Salary
💰 $105,200 - $131,500 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Drive improvements to proposal workflows, tools, and engagement models to increase efficiency, scalability, and response speed
- Act as a strategic partner to sales leadership, product teams, marketing, finance, and legal to shape positioning, messaging, and response direction
- Lead proposal strategy across complex opportunities, ensuring responses are aligned with win themes, customer needs, and revenue objectives
- Oversee the full proposal lifecycle while setting clear standards for quality, messaging, and consistency across regions
- Serve as both functional leader and active contributor, stepping in to lead or support high-impact proposals, complex opportunities, or priority accounts
- Ensure proposal resources are focused on the highest-value opportunities, balancing responsiveness with strategic impact and supporting enterprise sales cycles
- Mentor and develop proposal professionals while establishing clear expectations for quality, accountability, and performance
- Use data and insights to evaluate proposal effectiveness, identify trends in win/loss outcomes, and improve response quality, efficiency, and impact over time
- Maintain and evolve a centralized response library to ensure consistency, speed, and alignment across regions, while reducing duplication and improving response quality
- Ensure proposals align with regulatory, contractual, and company standards in partnership with legal and compliance teams
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field, or equivalent practical experience
- Experience supporting enterprise sales cycles, complex opportunities, and high-volume proposal environments
- Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders and work cross-functionally with sales leadership, product teams, marketing, finance, and legal
- Experience coordinating proposal work across global teams and time zones
- Strong ability to craft clear, structured proposal responses and translate complex information into customer-focused messaging
- Experience using proposal tools and collaboration platforms to manage content, workflows, and response coordination at scale
- Ability to prioritize competing opportunities and manage deadlines in a high-volume, revenue-driven environment
- Comfortable using data and insights to improve proposal effectiveness, response quality, and team performance
- Professional level written and spoken English suitable for enterprise customer and executive communication
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Retirement plans
- Professional development opportunities
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
proposal strategyproposal lifecycle managementdata analysiscontent managementworkflow managementcustomer-focused messaginghigh-volume proposal environmentsenterprise sales cycleswin/loss analysisregulatory compliance
Soft Skills
influencing senior stakeholderscross-functional collaborationmentoringprioritizationdeadline managementcommunicationquality assuranceaccountabilityperformance managementstrategic thinking
Certifications
Bachelor’s degree