Proposal Manager - Sales - Military veterans preferred

2024-04-08
AppCast (https://www.appcast.io)
Other

/yr

  full-time   employee


Kansas City
Missouri
64101
United States

Job Description
KP Recruiting Group is a consulting firm that provides leadership and exceptional talent to some of the world's leading companies. Headquartered in the Midwest, KP Recruiting Group has successfully completed countless engagements across the United States. We represent clients in all industries and all sizes. Our mission is to provide exceptional client and candidate experiences in order to get the best possible results. On behalf of our client, we are excited to present the following confidential role. We look forward to hearing from you and discussing the opportunity!

**Our client offers a hybrid work schedule with 2-3 days a week in office.

The Role:

Our client looking for talent to put together proposals that are personalized, compliant, and showcase why a company should choose our company. We are looking for people who are driven by overcoming challenges, partnering with stake holders, and love what they do. You will collaborate with multiple departments to extract the best of our company and put it on paper. Strong writing is a prerequisite in this role, but the day-to-day work will offer challenges on a wide range of business skills like project management, negotiation, creativity, and strategy. You enjoy staying on top of the latest industry news, using technology to make your job more efficient, and collaborating with others to get a project done. Most of all you love being part of a team charged with growing the business.

Our team thrives on testing new ideas, building new processes, and connecting with new audiences. Your fresh and innovative ideas will be heard. You will help in B2B and B2G business in educating customers and prospects in proposal responses.

Job Duties:

  • Use proposal automation tools to pull in right boilerplate content, and then customize to meet customers' needs and tell the right story.
  • You will respond to proposal requests in a high-volume environment, project managing each response and prioritizing the most strategic cases.
  • A constant learner that has the autonomy to stay abreast of new proposal management best practices, learns about new project and service offerings and explores competitive landscapes.
  • You are continuously curious and improve your knowledge and use of technologies and efficiencies to make processes better.
Who you are:
  • You really like the thrill of the hunt where your proposal management skills are critical in helping acquire and keep business.
  • You know your way around presales and RFP's.
  • You know your way around RFP automation tools.
  • You don't just take orders from others. You are a good collaborator.
  • You are a good leader.
  • You can coach sales teams in persuasive writing and proposal standard methodologies.
  • You are humble and fearless.
  • You are passionate about defining and implementing the future vision of proposals within the company.
  • You are a proposal warrior and are time, project, and detail oriented.
Requirements
  • 5-7 years experience creating proposals in a high-volume environment, project managing each response, and prioritizing the most strategic cases.
  • Using proposal automation tools to pull in right boilerplate content, and then customizing to meet customers' needs and telling the right story.
  • Constant learning to stay abreast of new proposal management best practices, learning about new project and service offerings, and exploring competitive landscapes.
  • Improving your knowledge and use of technologies and efficiencies to make processes better.
  • Candidate location is preferably Greater Overland Park, Kansas area. Our secondary choice would be a candidate located in the greater Atlanta, Georgia area.
  • Bachelor's degree
  • A PMP certification or experience with project management
Benefits
  • 401k Matching
  • Family and Individual Insurance Packages (Health, Life, Dental, and Vision)
  • Paid Time Off & Paid Holidays
  • Long & Short-Term Disability
  • Identity Theft Plans
  • Retirement & Pension Plans
  • Employee Assistance Program
  • Employee Referral Program
  • Tuition Reimbursement Programs
  • Advancement & Professional Growth opportunities
  • Parental Leave
  • & More