Senior Proposal Manager - Zermount, Inc

SENIOR PROPOSAL MANAGER

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Zermount Inc. is seeking a motivated Proposal Manager - Cybersecurity Analyst/Researcher to join our proposal and BD team. This professional will be responsible for leading new opportunities and recompetes for our BD team also leading our proposal team through the development of winning strategies, solutions, and value propositions considering customer needs and the competitive environment. The Proposal Manager will also support stakeholders on other opportunities to build further capture skillsets, accelerate understanding of capabilities, observe synergies across captures and bridge gaps to increase efficiency.

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Collaborate and drive proposal and capture process and process improvements.
• Craft highly technical and compliant proposals responding to government RFPs, RFIs, and RFQs related to cybersecurity projects.
• Ensure proposal responses align with federal cybersecurity requirements.
• Track and/gather preliminary information for opportunities leading to Bid/No-Bid decisions. 
• Support interaction with potential partners.
• Track and ensure next steps supporting partnerships are delivered and completed by all parties (prime-sub opportunities - e.g., NDA, TA, etc.).
• Develop and support continual improvements of company specific capture process.
• Lead solicitation response development efforts.
• Gather intelligence on federal cybersecurity trends, emerging threats and government initiatives.
• Assist in shaping the company's cybersecurity strategies and offerings.
• Manage the design, build, and enhance proposal process.
• Produce schedules, outlines, templates, compliance matrices, agendas, proposal kickoffs and reviews as well another proposal-related tasks and meetings.
• Guide Direct SMEs and other team members to create technical content. Write/edit response documents to incorporate win strategy and themes, differentiators and technical solutions into proposal documents in a clearly articulated, consistent manner, reflecting a clear understanding of the requirements. 
• Support other proposal operations activities, including boilerplate material library development/maintenance and process improvement initiatives.
• Lead and host color proposal reviews.
• Build proposal budget and cost proposals.
• Ensure proposal submissions are compliant with solicitation requirements. Meet all deadlines.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• At least 10 years of related experience in a combination of some or all the following: Business Development; Capture Management; Proposal Management; or Program Management.
• Understanding of federal acquisition policies, processes, procedures, and contracting laws. 
• Understanding of the full proposal life cycle is required (i.e., procurement, solicitation processes, and compliant proposal production).  
• Excellent written and oral communication, organizational skills, and ability to manage multiple simultaneous proposal efforts.
• Demonstrated experience managing and coordinating proposals responses by planning resource assignments, performing quality assurance, and installing processes, tools, and templates for team use Experience with managing capture efforts or a proven understanding of the customer's mission and the associated technical domains. 
• Experience with developing solutions and content (with subject matter expert support) for assigned opportunities with an understanding of bid price sensitivity, applying an overarching pricing strategy to design-to-cost offering development reflected in an integrated technical, management, and price win strategy. 
• Ability to work across industry to determine teaming strategies and represent the company in a highly ethical manner. 
• Have a working knowledge of US Government contracting, contract types and procurement processes. 
• Experience and skills with communication and technical applications. 
• Experience with research and analysis from various data sources 
• Presentation skills necessary to present to internal leadership and team members.

Education and/or Experience

Bachelor preferable but professional experience is permitted.

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Business Management, Communications or a related field.
• 6-7 years of experience as a proposal manager or business development specialist as well as experience directly supporting a Cybersecurity or Information Technology company.

Certifications and Training (Preferred)

A minimum of at least one of the following security certifications:

• Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITILv3)
• Project Management Professional (PMP)
• Security+
• Scrum Master
• Certified Manager Certification (CM)
• Other related certification

Work Location

• Onsite at Zermount Corporate Headquarters in Arlington, Virginia.

Hours of Operation

• Business Hours: 9:00 am EST - 5:00 pm EST.

Benefits

Zermount offers a generous benefit package including:

• Medical, dental, and vision plans with significant employer contributions.
• Employer paid basic group life insurance, short- and long-term disability plans.
• 11 paid holidays
• 15+ days of PTO and more!