Proposal Manager

Continental Electronics Corporation is a leading provider of RF technologies and innovative solutions with over 75 years of proven performance. CEC has experienced significant recent growth and has established itself as the go-to supplier for a diversified product line supporting a wide spectrum of markets from commercial products, military customers, to space research laboratories.

CEC seeks a Proposal Manager to be a key member of our Pursuit and Order Capture (P/OC) efforts. The Proposal Manager will work closely with Capture Teams and facilitate the development and production of Continental Electronics responses to customer's request for information, request for proposals and other customer requested responses in support of our pursuit of new opportunities. This individual will also work closely with members of the Capture Center in addition to the Capture Team members. Reports to the VP of Sales and Marketing.

• Thorough understanding of the business development lifecycle and hands-on experience working within the proposal planning, development, and post submission phases
• Create proposal timelines
• Issue assignments to members of their team
• Ensure everyone on the team meets their deadlines
• Create and give presentations to supervisors and other members in the organization about the Request for Proposal
• Collaborate with other departments to write and implement proposals
• Proven skills in technical and persuasive writing, editing, and publishing proposal content within a complex business environment
• Results-driven leader with a record of motivating and energizing teams to successfully accomplish organizational goals
• Thorough understanding of proposal development process
• Facilitate team assignments to align with proposal schedule, including proposal development as well as reviews (Pink, Red and Gold Team reviews) ensuring requests are appropriately supported; job skills that exhibit an ability to work under pressure and to challenging deadlines
• Ensure delivery of compliant, professionally produced proposals within customer defined timeframes and serves as an escalation point for issues impacting success Coordinating facilities, including coordination of audio/video resources, establishment of information technology resources, training proposal team member in the use of toolsets and proposal procedures
• Supporting color reviews by scheduling review meetings; document preparation; configuration and administration of review tools, coordinating all input outputs from the review meetings; assist in the development of the review team information packet; and distribution of materials as required
• Advanced desktop publishing, including complex manipulation of proposal documents including the positioning of text and graphic elements, formatting properties such as the size and style of type, column width, and spacing, performing quality check for document errors, coordination of graphics workflow, and the use and knowledge of Microsoft Office macros
• Lead the proposal process with tasks, but not limited to, efforts such as:
• Creation and review of proposal outline to ensure compliance and responsiveness
• Scheduling and running proposal kick-off meetings, leading storyboarding sessions, workshops and key review meetings
• Coach content owners/ subject matter experts in persuasive writing and proposal best practices focusing on compliance, responsiveness, flow and messaging
• Final document review, document production, and delivery of completed proposal
• Coordinate and update proposal content libraries
• Other responsibilities as assigned

• Bachelor's degree and 8 years of relevant experience OR Advance degree and 5 years of relevant experience
• Minimal travel to support pursuit efforts in various locations is required
• Ability to obtain a U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) security clearance is required
• U.S. citizenship is required

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to sit and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must rarely lift and/or move up to 10 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, peripheral vision and ability to adjust focus. Reasonable accommodations will be made.

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The specific programs and options available to any given employee may vary depending on eligibility factors such as geographic location and date of hire. Please note that the salary information shown above is a general guideline only. Salaries are based upon candidate experience and qualifications, as well as market and business considerations.

NOTICE TO THIRD PARTY AGENCIES

OSI Systems, Inc. and its subsidiaries (collectively "OSI") does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or employment agencies. If any person or entity, including a recruiter or agency, submits any information, including any resume or information regarding any potential candidate, without a signed agreement in place with OSI, OSI explicitly reserves the right to use such information, and pursue and/or hire such candidates, without any financial obligation to the person, recruiter or agency. Any unsolicited information or resumes, including those submitted directly to hiring managers, are considered and deemed to be the property of OSI.

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OSI Systems, Inc. has three operating divisions: (a) Security, providing security and inspection systems, turnkey security screening solutions and related services; (b) Healthcare, providing patient monitoring, diagnostic cardiology and anesthesia systems; and (c) Optoelectronics and Manufacturing, providing specialized electronic components and electronic manufacturing services for original equipment manufacturers with applications in the defense, aerospace, medical and industrial markets, among others.