Pursuit/Project Manager
This person is responsible for the day to day of identifying pursuits, capturing and managing opportunities, managing proposals and submittals, including coordinating deadlines. This person will also implement the day to day.
Our company’s goal is to work with corporations to assist them with procurement strategies and consulting services to win public agency, corporate or federal contracts. We do this through strategic consulting as well as through the design, development and maintenance of business programs - all with a community and inclusion lens.. Our business programs include mentor protege programs, youth engagement programs, stakeholder engagement, as well as supplier diversity programs.
Our goals are to:
We believe that we can make significant impact for small and diverse businesses through these programs and we want to ensure that every client, every communication is a “Ritz” moment and experience.
As a small and growing entrepreneurial company, no job is too big or too small. This role manages and executes the day to day of pursuits and may also support project work. The role requires someone who is able to be able to handle many balls at one time; effectively and quickly organize various data sources, information to create cohesive documents, reports, assembly for easy access. This is not a training role. Extensive experience in administrative coordination, being resourceful and high functioning is key to success. Someone with proposal coordination is a plus.
We need you to step into this role running from day one, and bring your own manage the manager expertise along with exceptional organization skills and attention to detail.
Our Values
Key abilities include:
Ability to understand client work and understand how to identify opportunities.
Manage many projects/pursuits at one time with varying deadlines
Formatting presentations and formal documents/proposals
Ability to get deliverables from others in a timely manner
Move the project forward
Be resourceful and responsible
Find opportunities
Attend preproposals - identify the key takeaways and needed intel
Write debriefs
Understand business development / marketing
Initiate strategy
Submit forms
Manage certifications
Manage reports / deadlines
Manage proposal process
Manage data/templates/proposals/collateral on drive for all proposals and pursuits
Leading the team from the research, to the pursuit to the end of getting on teams and submitting proposals and managing the archive folder
We find opportunities through google search, attending prebids, vendor portal research, networking.
Understands and knows how to work Google Suite and Asana
Follow Core Values of the Company
Potential additional
Email marketing management - eblasts, newsletters, blogs,
Creating posts and flyers and social media images (Canva, etc)
Writing content for eblasts / newsletters
Researching for talking points
Other duties as assigned
Key Traits
Plan, organize, direct
Cool under pressure
Delivery on time - every time
Critical thinker
Communicator
Ability to schedule
Time management
Problem-solving
Leadership
Technical expertise
Detail-oriented
Write succinctly and professionally
Knowing how to research
Must understand and speak and write English very well.
We are a marketing consulting firm that focuses on helping firms with procurement strategies and also designing, managing and implementing business...
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