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We'll help you accelerate your career and empower you with the right technology and training as you bring ideas and projects to life.\nTogether with your colleagues, clients and partners, you'll make an impact that is felt by all. See where your commitment could take you.\nWho are we looking for?\nGHD has an exciting opportunity for a new Proposal Manager II To lead pursuit and proposal activities and manage the development and implementation of pursuit plans and strategy\nThis role can be based at any of our central offices with a hybrid schedule of 3 days in office.\nPrimary Functions:\n· Manage the proposal efforts for CRM clients throughout Americas.\n· Lead proposal strategy discussions GNGs, and kick-off meetings for large pursuits and ensuring strategic win themes are effectively incorporated throughout the proposal.\n· Drive development and manage proposal team (technical leader, proposal coordinator, graphics, etc.).\n· Collaborate with team in the development of various proposal sections including Management, Personnel, Executive Summaries, and/or other Volumes as assigned.\n· Facilitate color reviews.\n· Facilitate production and delivery of finished product, while complying with all RFP requirements.\n· Manage the interview development and production process from start to finish.\n· Lead and engage in project specific and client capture planning.\n· Engage in the interview process to meet all client needs and align proposal themes and messaging with the knowledge collected throughout the positioning phase.\n· Attend interview preparation and practice sessions; support the team with presentation skills and delivery.\n· Attend client pre-proposal and debrief meetings; share lessons learned and best practices across teams.\nClients & People:\n· Internal proposal specialists/managers, projects managers, subject matter experts, and technical and proposal staff.\n· Interact with project managers, marketing and communications groups, and drafting department. Manage proposal team to stay on schedule.\nManage and assign tasks to Proposal Coordinator during proposal development.\nManage Graphic Design support during proposal and interview development.\nKey Performance Indicators:\nManage the successful development of compliant, competitive, cogent, and compelling proposals through effective collaboration across teams.\nPrepare and lead consistent and efficient proposal GNGs, kick-off meetings, group status calls, ensuring activities adhere to the Strategic Win Plan.\nEnsure the high-quality content and appearance of final proposal deliverables\nEnsure efficient communication with all team members are aligned and working cohesively towards common goals.\nManage entire proposal development schedule allowing time for team members to provide feedback on drafts and revisions.\nEnsure visual elements are completed and integrated efficiently.\nQualifications and Competencies\nBachelor’s or master’s degree\nFive to seven years of experience leading the proposal process from prepositioning phases through interview and driving teams to develop complaint and coemptive bids for an engineering, construction or professional services organization.\nProficient in marketing techniques (layout, graphics, strategy-to-win)\nProficient in Microsoft Suite.\nProficient in Adobe Creative Cloud (InDesign) and Photoshop.\nProficient in Adobe Acrobat.\nKnowledge of Salesforce/PowerBI.\nAbility to manage and work effortlessly with Technical Leaders in any market and service line.\nProven leadership and strategy development skills.\nConfident personality with the ability to think strategically and help teams develop sound marketing, pursuit and proposal strategies.\nStrong communication skills - both written and oral.\nGood negotiation, problem solving, planning and time management skills.\nStrong organizational and time management skills.\nTake on some of the world’s toughest challenges - with everyone at GHD backing you every step of the way.\nWe'll give you control over your career, empower you to find innovative solutions and help you create a lasting impact.\nSee where your commitment could take you with GHD.\nEEO Statement US: As a multicultural organization, we encourage individual achievement and recognize the strength of a diverse workforce. 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