Manager Proposal Development

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About the role of the Manager, Proposal Development

The Manager, Proposal Development will lead the strategy, processes, content resources, and team responsible for delivering high-quality proposal and sales support materials. This Manager will be accountable for ensuring timely, accurate, client focused, and brand-aligned deliverables while strengthening team capability and cross-functional partnerships. In this critical role, the Manager, Proposal Development’s primary focus will be to improve operational effectiveness, support business objectives through proposal excellence, and maintain effective content and knowledge management practices. The right candidate has excellent people leadership skills, a continuous process improvement mindset, excels at stakeholder collaboration, and oversight of proposal development services.

What you’ll do:

• Manage a team responsible for proposal development services, including hiring, onboarding, coaching, performance management, recognition, and employee development.
• Develop team capability in proposal development, strategic writing, presentations, consultation, data literacy, and process improvement to support business objectives.
• Deliver proposal strategies, responses, presentations, and related materials that meet quality, timing, compliance, and brand expectations.
• Coordinate cross functional collaboration with business partners, subject matter experts, sales teams, and leaders to support complex opportunities and shared outcomes.
• Analyze operational performance, stakeholder feedback, workload demands, and proposal outcomes to identify and implement improvements.
• Execute process, workflow, automation, and tool enhancements that improve quality, consistency, efficiency, and service delivery.
• Oversee governance, organization, accuracy, lifecycle management, and usability of proposal content repositories and knowledge resources.
• Support organizational partnerships by influencing stakeholders, resolving barriers, establishing accountability, and promoting effective proposal development practices.
• As part of this role, you may be assigned internal controls derived from Premera’s internal controls framework. You will be accountable to understand the controls assigned to you, their impact on Premera, and to ensure that they are operating effectively.
• As part of this role, you may have responsibility for oversight of third parties. You will be accountable for ensuring the third parties assigned to you operate effectively, in compliance with their contract and Premera’s Third Party Code of Conduct, and that you and the third parties complete all assigned mitigation activities in a timely and accurate manner.
• Other duties as assigned.

What you’ll bring:

• Ten years of professional writing experience in marketing, public relations, proposal development, or business communications, including five years in healthcare. (Required)
• Demonstrated experience leading people and complex, cross-functional teams, including strategic responses to RFPs, RFIs, or comparable business opportunities. (Preferred)
• Experience improving business processes, leading change, and managing a proposal content database or comparable enterprise content repository. (Preferred)
• Strong planning, prioritization, resource management, problem-solving, and working knowledge of process improvement, performance measurement, knowledge management, and AI tools to improve timeliness and quality. (Preferred)

• Strong people leadership, coaching, strategic writing, editing, storytelling, and presentation development skills.
• Ability to translate complex information into clear, compelling content and build trust and influence across organizational levels and functions.

Premera total rewards

Our comprehensive total rewards package provides support, resources, and opportunities to help employees thrive and grow. Our total rewards are more than a collection of perks, they're a reflection of our commitment to your health and well-being. We offer a broad array of rewards including physical, financial, emotional, and community benefits, including:

• Medical, vision, and dental coverage with low employee premiums.

• Voluntary benefit offerings, including pet insurance for paw parents.

• Life and disability insurance.

• Retirement programs, including a 401K employer match and, believe it or not, a pension plan that is vested after 3 years of service.

• Wellness incentives with a wide range of mental well-being resources for you and your dependents, including counseling services, stress management programs, and mindfulness programs, just to name a few.

• Generous paid time off to reenergize.

• Looking for continuing education? We have tuition assistance for both undergraduate and graduate degrees.

• Employee recognition program to celebrate anniversaries, team accomplishments, and more.

For our hybrid employees, our on-campus model provides flexibility to create your own routine with access to on-site resources, networking opportunities, and team engagement.

• Commuter perks make your trip to work less impactful on the environment and your wallet.

• Free convenient on-site parking.

• Subsidized on-campus cafes make lunchtime connections with colleagues fun and affordable.

• Participate in engaging on-site activities such as health and wellness events, coffee connects, disaster preparedness fairs and more.

• Our complementary fitness & well-being center offers both in-person and virtual workouts and nutritional counseling.

• Need a brain break? Challenge someone to a game of shuffleboard or ping pong while on campus.

Equal employment opportunity/affirmativeaction:

Premera is an equal opportunity/affirmativeaction employer. Premera seeks to attract and retain the most qualified individuals without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, marital status, veteran status, gender or gender identity, sexual orientation, genetic information or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.

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Premera is hiring in the following states, with some limitations based on role or city: Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Washington, Wisconsin.

The pay for this role will vary based on a range of factors including, but not limited to, a candidate’s geographic location, market conditions, and specific skills and experience.

The salary range for this role is posted below; we generally target up to and around the midpoint of the range.

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*National Plus salary range is used in higher cost of labor markets including Western Washington and Alaska.

We’re happy to discuss compensation further during the interview because we believe that open communication leads to better outcomes for all. We’re committed to creating an environment where all employees are celebrated for their unique skills and contributions.