Overview / Responsibilities
Wood has an opportunity for a Proposal Manager.
The Proposal Manager role is a supervisory position. The individual in this role has overall responsibility and accountability for the proposals process and quality of proposals for their respective businesses. This role is typically assigned and responsible for a specific part of the business within their respective Business Units.
- Foster the sell of Wood Solutions – Encourage and support cross selling of services for Wood across all markets
- Maintain list of all active proposals, pre-qualifications and other customer responses with status and submission dates for assigned business
- Support and contribute to the continual improvement of proposal procedures and processes
- Take end-to-end ownership and command of proposal development and related support processes and procedures, including written proposals, oral presentations, Best and Final Offers, Evaluation Notices, Final Proposal Revisions, etc.
- Ensure compliance of Strategy & Development-owned Tender Governance Policy gates during pursuit and proposal development
- Assist Proposals Director in auditing past proposals for businesses within the Business Unit
- Provide training on the proposal process and proposal best practices for all proposal team members within their respective Business Unit as well as all major stakeholders of the proposal process
- Manage Proposal Leads and Coordinators for their assigned part of the business including the coordination of workload (allocation of assignments), quality of output, ensure expectations and goals are clear and business is supported
- Evaluate job performance of Proposal Leads and Proposal Coordinators of respective business
- Ensure incorporation of proposal best practices into all customer responses for respective business
- Oversee/support pre-proposal positioning where appropriate, as well as proposal development strategies and implementation. This includes development of capture plan and proposal planning document development, facilitatation of strategy sessions to develop the win strategy and theme/value proposition for proposals.
- Oversee the production of proposals of all sizes/types and other customer responses (including prequalifications, expressions of interest, presentations, etc) and ensure that the proposal is compliant and delivered on time. This key role collaborates with capture management, SMEs, and proposal staff to write, edit, review, and produce winning proposals.
- Proactively directs and provides interface management to a team of complex skills and functions, including (but not limited to) Wood management, Capture Manager, Technical Lead/Project
- Manager, volume/section leads, authors, SMEs, Legal, Estimating, Commercial, and small business
- Ensure customer's requirements are fully met. This involves conducting searches for appropriate materials and writing and editing project summaries, resumes of project personnel, and other supporting sections of the proposal, as necessary. Leverages existing archived proposal information.
- Take on responsibility of Proposal Lead or Proposal Coordinator as needed for strategic pursuits
- and top opportunities, or as required due to workload of proposals team including (but not limited to) the following:
- Assess the Request for Proposal and customer requirements/evaluation criteria
- Develop and implement the proposal management plan (responsibility/compliance matrix)
- Develop and implement the proposal schedule
- Lead proposal kick-off and review meetings
- Oversee and/or expedite the following proposal processes: information gathering and
compilation, data entry, formatting, editing, reviews, reproduction and delivery
- Where appropriate, assist/expedite business development managers in the management review
of contract, tax, and insurance requirements
- Expedite proposal stakeholders to obtain outstanding proposal deliverables per the proposal
schedule and in order to make the proposal deadline
- Ensure consistency and branding compliance for all customer responses
- Prepare post-bid submissions, organize the response to requests for clarification
- Manage the development of customer presentations (pre-proposal or post-proposal)
- Oversee/participate in color/management team reviews
- Remain current on all solicitation modifications/Q&A and communicates them to the team;
Revises schedule, outline, and proposal management plan (responsibility/compliance matrix) as
necessary throughout proposal life cycle.
- Review/analyze proposal sections for consistency and clarity, compliance with solicitation
requirements, and alignment with proposed solutions and themes and writes/re-writes
proposal sections as necessary to deliver high-quality, winning proposals.
- Finalize proposals and other customer responses for submission to customer. As directed,
submit the response to customer as instructed in their instructions (email, hard copy, customer
electronic procurement site, etc.)
- Oversee graphic designers to conceptualize, develop, and integrate compelling proposal
graphics that convey concepts and proposed solutions to enhance proposal documents
- Provide oversight in organizing general proposal files, resources, and boilerplate for quick, efficient and accurate retrieval of information for proposal purposes. Develop and/or compile sales, marketing, and technical information for proposal use.
- Final oversight of customer responses (proposals, pre-qualifications, requests for information, and presentations) as appropriate to ensure quality, compliance and best practice incorporation
- Where required within the business, manage proposal budgets and monitor proposal spend
- Assist in the maintenance of CRM opportunities during the proposal stage. This includes updating Pursuit Status, Revenue, Workhours, Worksplit, Lead Review date, Approval to Prepare date and Approval to Submit date. Some businesses may require this role to be more involved in the overall CRM reporting for the respective business.
- Comply with Wood Code of Business Conduct, Anti Bribery and Corruption undertakings and the Wood mandatory and fundamental procedures.
Skills / Qualifications
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited university required in Business, Marketing, Communications, Journalism, or related majors preferred
- Minimum Eight (8) years proposal experience with similar firms preferred
Knowledge, skills and experience:
- Technical and/or engineering experience preferred but not required
- Thorough understanding of and ability to implement industry best practices and Proposals/Marketing techniques
- Industry experience related to the supporting business is preferred but not required
- Possess and ability to apply extensive management skills and knowledge in field of specialization/expertise, in order to ensure functional area performs as expected and in compliance with both internal and external policies, laws, etc.
- Ability to manage projects, interface with customer representatives, interpret customer/stakeholder requirements, manage customer/stakeholder expectations, plan work load, organize proposals team resources and deliver on agreed deadlines
- Strong proofreading, editing and business software skills (style, format, grammar, etc.)
- Excellent knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Adobe Acrobat; Proficiency with SharePoint and InDesign is desired.
Personal attributes:
- Consistent personal ethic: integrity, dependability, initiative, and quality in line with our Corporate Vision and Values
- Even tempered in fast-paced, high-pressure environment
- Strategic creative thinker with ability to “think outside the box”
- Proven team player, capable of leading and motivating the proposals team
- Advances analyitical skills and ability to follow structured approach
- Takes responsibility and leads continuous improvement
- Ability to drive company policies and procedures and apply to proprosals, as appropriate
Company Overview
Wood is a global leader in engineering and consultancy across energy and the built environment, helping to unlock solutions to some of the world’s most critical challenges. We provide consulting, projects and operations solutions in more than 60 countries, employing around 40,000 people. www.woodplc.com
Diversity Statement
We are an equal opportunity employer that recognises the value of a diverse workforce. All suitably qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment on the basis of objective criteria and without regard to the following (which is a non-exhaustive list): race, colour, age, religion, gender, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status, or other characteristics in accordance with the relevant governing laws.
