Vision Quest

Proposal Manager

• Serve as Proposal Manager for assigned pursuits, overseeing planning, scheduling, and execution
• Develop proposal outlines, compliance matrices, storyboards, and annotated templates
• Lead color reviews (Pink, Red, Gold) and manage comment adjudication
• Ensure alignment between capture strategy, win themes, and technical narratives
• Coordinate inputs from SMEs, operations, pricing, legal, and subcontractor partners
• Maintain version control, production schedules, and submission readiness
• Support development of reusable content libraries, templates, and best practice tools
• Ensure proposals are compliant, compelling, and delivered on time
• Manage end-to-end proposal development activities, including Sources Sought, RFIs, white papers, briefings, full proposals, evaluation notices, final proposal revisions (FPRs), and debrief support
• Lead multiple concurrent proposal efforts, directing cross-functional proposal teams that may include subject matter experts (SMEs), writers, editors, graphic designers, reviewers, teaming partners, and production staff
• Serve as the primary proposal interface with internal leadership and coordinate, as required, with Government Contracting Officials regarding solicitation questions, amendments, submission processes, negotiations, awards, and debriefs
• Coordinate Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDAs) and Teaming Agreements (TAs) in collaboration with Contracts
• Perform in-depth solicitation reviews and develop comprehensive Proposal Management Plans, including proposal schedules, outlines, compliance matrices, volume templates, data call instructions, and proposal contact lists
• Direct and manage all phases of proposal execution, including planning, writing, editing, graphics development, reviews, production, quality control, and on-time submission
• Schedule and facilitate proposal status meetings, data calls, and formal review cycles (Pink, Red, Gold), ensuring disciplined comment adjudication and issue resolution
• Lead and participate in proposal strategy development, ensuring capture strategies, discriminators, and win themes are clearly articulated and consistently integrated across all volumes
• Maintain a hands-on role in proposal development, including formatting, writing, editing, graphics development, table creation, resumes, covers, tabs, and submission packaging
• Author and edit proposal content such as executive summaries, cover letters, management plans, technical narratives, staffing plans, past performance volumes, resumes, position descriptions, contract fact sheets, and RFI/Sources Sought responses
• Coordinate and develop responses to prime contractor data calls, ensuring accuracy, consistency, and compliance
• Synchronize technical and cost volumes by working closely with pricing teams to align staffing, labor categories, equipment, materials, and narrative assumptions with the cost proposal
• Lead organization of cost volume inputs, including required forms and documentation
• Support cost staff with editing pricing narratives and ensuring consistency between technical and pricing volumes
• Collaborate as part of a proposal team, supporting other Proposal Managers or writer as needed across the proposal portfolio
• Support continuous improvement of proposal tools, templates, libraries, and lessons learned repositories