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The Senior Proposal Manager is responsible for leading, planning, scheduling, and overseeing the timely development and delivery of high-quality responses to federal business opportunities, from pre-RFP to post-submission activities, in a fast-paced environment. Key activities include developing a compliant outline for all volumes, leading win theme development, developing compliance matrices, scheduling color reviews, updating leadership on progress, leading daily status meetings, motivating and focusing the proposal team, and ensuring each response is both compelling and compliant. The ideal candidate is a thought leader who fosters a positive team environment, can work closely with and report to the opportunity Capture Manager, and quickly adjust to dynamic proposal development schedules and requirements.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Manage the successful development of compliant, competitive, cogent, and compelling proposals through effective collaboration across teams that include internal staff, corporate partners, consultants, and supporting vendors.
• Work with the Capture Manager to determine author assignments and integrate win strategy, themes, and discriminators into proposal.
• Lead and analyze RFI, RFQ, RFPs and other bid documents for requirements.
• Develop the proposal schedule, proposal outline, writing assignments, and compliance matrix.
• Prepare and lead kickoff meetings and daily status calls.
• Establish and maintain a SharePoint site for each proposal.
• Provide advice, leadership, and guidance to authors on all proposal content.
• Take ownership of the quality of the proposal for color reviews and final delivery by performing rigorous quality assurance checks on draft and final documents.
• Conduct activities required to successfully perform color reviews, debrief authors, and perform color review recovery.
• Ensure the high-quality content and appearance of final proposal deliverables.
• Coordinate and support the production, reproduction, binding, and packaging in finalizing the proposal submission and response processes, if applicable.
• Ensure timely delivery of proposals that are fully compliant with solicitation instructions.
• Conduct and document lessons learned and implement actions to improve process efficiency.
• Manage the development of oral presentations, discussions, and proposal revisions.
• Support the VP of Corporate Development in creating and delivering training for Business Development and other staff to continuously improve our corporate proposal operations.

Required Skills and Experience:

• Minimum of five years proven experience managing proposal teams and leading them efficiently in a dynamic, fast-paced environment on moderate- to high-complexity federal opportunities.
• A proven track record of managing and winning proposals within the federal IT services market ranging from $10M to $100M.
• Ability to conduct research and synthesize information from multiple sources (subject matter experts, previous proposals) into a cohesive, easy-to-read, and persuasive final product.
• Ability to multi-task and work on multiple concurrent projects.
• Ability to adapt to various people and working styles under tight deadlines.
• Ability to work beyond regular schedule hours if needed.
• Bachelor’s degree in business or communications field, or equivalent professional experience.
• Possess excellent leadership, prioritization, and organizational skills.
• Possess excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Possess strong editing skills; excellent knowledge of grammar and punctuation.
• High proficiency in the MS Office Suite (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project), Adobe Acrobat, and Microsoft SharePoint.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Evaluates complex situations using multiple sources of information filters, validates and interprets dynamic material.
• Manages and appropriately escalates; delivery impediments, risks, issues, and changes associated to the product development initiatives.
• Ability to lead and motivate cross-functional teams and interact with all levels.
• Analysis, planning, developing requirements documents, building functional models, developing procedures, developing functional architectures, and other related management and technical duties.
• Assigns and monitor work of technical personnel, ensuring that project steps are in alignment with business objectives, on-time and within budget.
• Creates a method of change management including ownership of a documentation, communication plans, process training,
• Defines project scope, deliverables, roles and responsibilities in collaboration with stakeholders and business partners.
• Defines, acquires, and allocates budget, staff, and other resources necessary to accomplish the goals and/or objectives of the program group/function and monitors performance across resource channels.
• Designs and implements processes to monitor and control resources, budget, risks and value to Business Objectives.
• Establishes, plans, and executes major milestone reviews and decision gates to complete the program and project life cycle. Ensures all the required products are produced and reviewed, including the technical leadership of requirements management, design, implementation, system integration, verification, test, quality assurance, delivery, operations, and sustainment of the technical solution.
• Evaluates technological choices (network/hardware related and technology/code related) by querying providers and understanding enough about implications to make choices for the organization that have an appropriate balance between cost.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to interact professionally with a diverse group; developers, product owners, and subject matter experts.
• Exercises broadly delegated authority for planning, directing, coordinating, administering, and executing many routine and complex projects/programs.
• Identifies, clarifies and communicates project vision, goals and objectives and how these tie into, support or impedes organizational strategic objectives.
• Manage scope throughout the project duration. Maintains accurate program estimates, timelines, project plans, status reports.
• Manages and tracks team velocity, financials, and other KPIs in relation to the plan and published progress reports.
• Provide process improvement recommendations based on best practices and industry standards.
• Resolves conflicts by demonstrating leadership and appropriate decision-making competencies.
• Responsible for complex program management tasks and development of standards and processes for scheduling, administration.
• Understands, tracks and articulates issues / risks / action items; work with responsible owners to address the items on a timely basis; update the appropriate stakeholders as needed.

Qualifications and Requirements:

• 5-7+ years of Technical Project Manager experience with gradually increasing responsibilities and a demonstrated understanding of Project Management processes, artifacts and tools.
• Java/J2EE preferred
• Appian Level 2-3 Certified
• A track record as a coach, mentor, and developer of talent.
• Ability to independently manage the operational aspects of ongoing projects and serves as liaison between project management and project team.
• An ability to drive to big picture goals and milestones while valuing and maintaining a strong attention to detail.
• An ability to quickly identify and drive to the optimal solution when presented with a series of constraints.
• Demonstrated ability in people management, strategic planning, risk management, change management, project management.
• Excellent judgment, analytical thinking, and problem-solving skills.
• Experience in business process mapping or operational redesign / improvement.
• Experience working with quality management approaches, techniques, and principles to ensure quality.
• Full understanding of software development lifecycle best practices.
• Knowledge of both theoretical and practical aspects of project management.
• Self-motivated individual that possesses excellent time management and organizational skills.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration skills, relationship building skills and ability to achieve results without direct reporting relationships.
• Strong oral and written communication skills and the ability to present a polished, professional, and diplomatic image to all stakeholders.
• Strong sense of personal responsibility and accountability for delivering high quality.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Provide management to staff and leadership to the organization that aligns with the company’s business plan and overall strategic vision.
• Assist executive team members in creating, growing and building an industry-leading, federal technology consulting organization.
• Drive company results from both an operational and financial perspective working closely with the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and other key executive team members.
• Partner with the Finance team to achieve favorable financial results with respect to sales, profitability, cash flow, systems, reporting and controls.
• Set challenging and realistic goals for growth, performance and profitability.
• Create effective measurement tools to gauge the efficiency and effectiveness of internal and external processes.
• Provide accurate and timely reports outlining the operational condition of the company.
• Spearhead the development, communication and implementation of effective growth strategies and business development processes.
• Work with other executives on budgeting, forecasting and resource allocation programs.
• Work closely with senior management team to create, implement and roll out plans for operational processes, internal infrastructure, reporting systems and company policies designed to foster growth, profitably and efficiencies within the company.
• Motivate and encourage employees at all levels as one of the key leaders in the company including but not limited to professional staff, management level employees and executive leadership team members.
• Foster a growth-oriented, positive and encouraging environment while keeping employees and management accountable to company policies, procedures and guidelines.

Qualifications and Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in business, technology or related field.
• MBA or other advanced degree is preferred.
• Minimum of 15 years of executive-level operational experience in federal technology consulting is required.
• Minimum of 5 years at the EVP/COO level in federal technology consulting is required.
• Exceptional executive presence, interpersonal skills, and presentation skills are highly desired.
• Budgeting and/or financial focused mindset are highly desired.

Qualifications and Requirements:

• Experience with supporting Java/Java EE middleware and packaged applications.
• Hands-on administration of IBM WebSphere Application Server ND 8/8.5/9 with expertise in installation, support, analysis of logs and performance tuning.
• Expertise supporting software on Red Hat Linux v5/6/7 and AIX 7
• Solid understanding of networking, security concepts and databases (IBM DB2 v10.5 and Oracle 18c).
• Deep understanding of JDBC and IBM Websphere Application Client IIOP connectivity.
• Experience working with network standards, such as DHCP, DNS, SSL, TCP, UDP, IP, QoS and ICMP.
• Strong knowledge of networking concepts, such as load balancing, routing and troubleshoot cross datacenter application response issues.
• Experience with scripting languages, bash and python/jython to automate tasks.
• Experience using WebSphere Deployment Manager Console.
• Experience with monitoring tools Appdynamics and splunk.
• Strong experience managing WebSphere cache objects and handling garbage collection.
• Expertise in managing 100% uptime of a load balanced and High-Available WebSphere environments.
• Expertise with the implementation of SOAP and REST based web services in the WebSphere environment.
• Expertise with the integration of the WebSphere enterprise application with the IBM HTTP web servers and Citrix Netscaler load balancer.
• Experience supporting SAP BI 4.1/42, tableau reporting systems.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Knowledge of ITIL framework. Experience in ServiceNow Incident and Change Management process.
• Knowledge to perform troubleshooting on services running on LINUX/UNIX.
• Able to respond to emergencies on a 24/7 basis.