Senior Proposal Manager

Sabre Systems, LLC is seeking a Senior Proposal Manager to effectively lead and manage assigned proposals, ensuring the delivery of compelling and compliant submissions. The proposal manager is responsible for driving the proposal effort, effectively owning the entire proposal lifecycle from planning through source selection award. We are looking for someone with strong leadership and organizational skills, with the ability to effectively lead and motivate a diverse team of professionals.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Manage multiple proposals simultaneously, coordinating proposal team resources, delivery schedules, outlines, and compliance matrices.
• Ensure that strategy, themes, and discriminators developed by the Capture Team are reflected in proposals.
• Coordinate team-wide proposal contributions in collaboration with key stakeholders, technical teams, and executives.
• Schedule and participate in color team reviews, providing guidance on compliance.
• Responsible for post-submission activities such as lessons learned, responses to Evaluation Notices and BAFO requests, and document management.
• Coordinate with Capture Leads to organize, lead, and participate in Black Hat, Blue Team, and proposal strategy sessions, providing feedback on proposal readiness to enhance the Pwin.
• Maintain an active and archive proposal repository and ensure all materials are documented in accordance with Sabre processes.
• Continual evaluation of Sabre's proposal processes, templates, and tools to ensure they meet advances in industry standards and expectations.
• Provide proposal process training.

This position requires a flexible schedule, exceptional organizational skills, and the ability to maintain order and attention to detail through fast-paced delivery schedules with a variety of internal and external team members. Candidates must be in the DC Metro or Southern Maryland area and able to commute to the office as needed.

Required:

• Minimum 7 years of professional experience in Federal contracting business.
• Minimum 6 years of progressive experience as a Proposal Manager or in a proposal management leadership role.
• Bachelor's degree at a minimum; a degree or additional experience in a technical discipline, English, business development, marketing, or communications is a plus.
• Strong personnel management skills.
• Proficiency in MS Office, SharePoint, Adobe Acrobat, and MS Excel.
• APMP Practitioner or Professional Certification desired.
• Ability to obtain a security clearance required.

Preferred:

• Experience with Shipley capture methodology and/or other structured proposal development frameworks

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Sabre Systems, LLC, has been providing innovative technological solutions and services for Department of Defense, Federal Civilian, and commercial customers for more than 35 years. We support the ever-evolving areas of advanced communication technologies, cyber, systems and software engineering, and digital transformation.

With over three decades in business, we continue to uphold our small business values with a core philosophy of putting our people first. Our welcoming and inclusive culture embraces the diverse thoughts, experiences, and unique perspectives of our people, encouraging open communication and feedback at every level of our workforce. We offer a collaborative work environment, learning and development opportunities that benefit even our most seasoned technical professionals, and the support and resources needed to develop impactful solutions for our customers. Your health, happiness, and well-being are at the top of our priority list because we know your personal and professional success depends on it. Sabre offers custom-built and wide-ranging benefits that are continually enhanced to meet the evolving and diverse needs of our Sabre Pros. Join our team and contribute to our thriving, people-driven culture.

We respect the unique perspectives that a diverse workforce of minorities, women, individuals with disabilities, and protected veterans brings not only to our company, but also to our customers. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity and sexual orientation), national origin, age, disability or genetic information.

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