Proposal Manager

Location

Wilmington, NC | United States

Job description

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Role description:

Arcadis is seeking a Proposal Manager to join our US East Commercial Enablement team.

This role will support efforts nationally with a primary focus in the US East Region. The position of Proposal Manager at Arcadis and within the Commercial Enablement team is an important role in providing professional service marketing support to key members of all Practice Areas directly responsible for business development and revenue generation.

You will be a key member of the pursuits team helping to craft win themes, generate content, and provide guidance to other team members as needed. You will work on a team of coordinators, graphic designers, and communications specialists to secure resources and drive best practices, enabling teams to deliver compelling, tailored, error-free collateral, proposals, and presentations. 

As a Proposal Manager in a creative environment, you will actively seek feedback and be comfortable with a fast-paced environment that is dynamic and everchanging. You will be able to influence and implement strategies and execute plans while leveraging your problem-solving capability and business acumen to translate big ideas into tangible results.

This position will have the flexibility of a hybrid work situation, combining a "work from home" and an in-office work environment.

Role accountabilities : 

The successful candidate will be a highly proficient writer and editor, with strong organizational and time management skills. You will need to be a proactive, collaborative team player, and problem solver with the ability to follow and improve processes.

• Managing proposals, including some of the team’s largest pursuits, and working with the proposal leads, professional technical staff, and marketing/graphics team to prepare proposals which include collecting, analyzing, and producing editorial oversight for business-related information, writing and editing proposal documents;
• Acting as the primary point of contact during the proposal process, creating a submission schedule for the proposal team regarding communications and reminders on internal proposal deliverables and deadlines;
• Contributing to the generation, collection, dissemination, and storage of proposal-related information, and analyzing in-bound proposal requests (such as RFQ, RFP, EOI, etc.) to help prepare responses;
• Coordinating team members and implementing internal deadlines to complete proposal forms, resume alterations, additional information from subcontractors, etc. to meet the proposal due date;
• Facilitating and participating in marketing/proposal strategy sessions and debriefs;
• Maintaining and updating CRM and content library with high-quality content;
• Ensuring high professionalism and quality are communicated through content, layout, and the use of visuals that are consistent with the corporate brand and vision;
• Assisting and supporting the Regional Commercial Enablement Manager in marketing functions as needed including maintaining a variety of tracking documents, writing project descriptions, office communications, and supporting speaking engagements, award submissions, and presentations.

Qualifications & Experience:

• 8+ years of proposal writing and/or AEC industry experience
• Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Communications, English, Business, or a related field
• Strong working knowledge of Adobe Create Suite, especially InDesign, Photoshop, as well as Microsoft Office;
• Strong project and time management skills;

Why Arcadis?

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.

You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.

Together, we can create a lasting legacy.

Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We are an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. Women, minorities, people with disabilities and veterans are strongly encouraged to apply. We are dedicated to a policy of non-discrimination in employment on any basis including race, creed, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, citizenship status, disability, veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by law.

Arcadis offers benefits for full time and part time positions. These benefits include medical, dental, and vision, EAP,  401K, STD, LTD, AD&D, life insurance, paid parental leave, reward & recognition program and optional benefits including wellbeing benefits, adoption assistance and tuition reimbursement.  We offer nine paid holidays and 15 days PTO that accrue per year. T he salary range for this position is $82,400 - $94,760.

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