Sr. Proposal Manager

Job Description: Proposal Manager

Employment Type: Full-time Work Schedule: Standard (Mon-Fri) Location Type: Office

Position Overview

At Thermo Fisher Scientific, we are dedicated to enabling our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner, and safer. We are seeking a Proposal Manager to actively manage the preparation and development of complex, compelling proposals and content focused on client solutions that are aligned with commercial and operational strategy. This role may also serve as a proposal strategy lead on assigned commercial opportunities.

Our Mission and Values

Our Mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. As one team of 100,000+ colleagues, we share a common set of values: Integrity, Intensity, Innovation, and Involvement. We work together to accelerate research, solve complex scientific challenges, drive technological innovation, and support patients in need.

Essential Functions

• Interprets and analyzes appropriate data to write and/or review complex proposals that support client solutions, incorporating graphics and tables as needed.
• Proactively collaborates to ensure the proposal and related documents align with operational strategy and budget, resolving conflicting feedback as needed.
• Ensures proposal responses meet client requests and follows up with contributors and subject matter experts.
• Works effectively with executive leadership as contributors, reviewers, or as otherwise necessary.
• Creates and/or reviews the initial draft of bid defense presentations using tables and graphics from the proposal, then passes to the project team for completion.
• May oversee quality control across the team, identifying the need for and leading process or procedure improvements within the department and/or cross-functionally.
• Identifies and develops strategic library content.
• Provides super-user level support to proposal teams for proposal development software.
• May mentor and coach more junior team members.

Job Complexity

• Works on complex issues where the analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of variable factors.

Job Knowledge

• Possesses wide-ranging experience, using professional concepts and company objectives to resolve complex issues in creative and effective ways.
• Some barriers to entry exist at this level (e.g., department/peer review).
• This is a level at which a career may plateau.

Supervision Received

• Determines methods and procedures on new assignments and may coordinate activities of other personnel (i.e., Team Lead).
• Exercises judgment in selecting methods, techniques, and evaluation criteria for obtaining results.

Business Relationships

• Frequent contacts with internal personnel and outside customer representatives at various management levels concerning operations or scheduling of specific phases of projects or contracts.
• Creates formal networks with key contacts outside own area of expertise.

Qualifications

• Education and Experience:
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent and relevant formal academic/vocational qualification.
  • Previous experience that provides the knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the job (comparable to 8+ years).
  • In some cases, an equivalency consisting of a combination of appropriate education, training, and/or directly related experience will be considered sufficient for an individual to meet the requirements of the role.

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Note: Salary and specific location details were not provided in the original job description.