Proposal Writer - Cybersecurty
Proposal Writer - Cybersecurty
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PROPOSAL WRITER CYBERSECURITY
MILITARY FRIENDLY & PREFERRED HOH SPONSOR
Zermount Inc. is seeking a motivated Proposal Writer Cybersecurity to join our proposal and BD team at Zermount. This person will be responsible for leading new opportunities and recompetes for our BD team. This position would include leading a proposal team through the development of winning strategies solutions and value propositions that consider customer needs and the competitive environment. The BD Specialist will also support stakeholders on other opportunities to build further capture skillsets accelerate understanding of capabilities observe synergies across captures and bridge gaps to increase efficiency.
DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES
- Collaborate and drive proposal and capture process and process improvements.
- Specializes in crafting highly technical and compliant proposals and responding to government RFPs RFIs and RFQs related to cybersecurity projects.
- Ensure that proposal responses align with federal cybersecurity requirements.
- Opportunity tracking/gathering preliminary information for Bid/NoBid decisions
- Support interaction with potential partners
- Track and ensure next steps and documentation supporting partnerships are delivered and completed by all parties (primesub opportunities e.g. NDA TA etc.)
- Develop and support continual improvements of company specific capture process
- Lead solicitation response development efforts
- Responsible for gathering intelligence on federal cybersecurity trends emerging threats and government initiatives.
- Assist in shaping the companys cybersecurity strategies and offerings.
- Manage the design build and enhance proposal process
- Produce schedules outlines templates compliance matrices agendas proposal kickoffs and reviews and other proposalrelated tasks and meetings
- Guide subject matter experts and other team members to create technical content
- Write/edit response documents to incorporate win strategy and themes differentiators and technical solutions into proposal documents in a clearly articulated consistent manner reflecting a clear understanding of the requirements
- Support other proposal operations activities including boilerplate material library development/maintenance and process improvement initiatives
- Lead and host color proposal reviews
- Build proposal budget and cost proposal
- Ensure proposal submissions are compliant with solicitation requirements
- Other duties as assigned.
QUALIFICATIONS
- 25 years of related experience in a combination of some or all the following:Business Development; Capture Management; Proposal Management; or Program Management.
- Understanding of federal acquisition policies processes procedures and contracting laws.
- Understanding of the full proposal life cycle is required (i.e. procurement solicitation processes and compliant proposal production).
- Excellent written and oral communication organizational skills and ability to manage multiple simultaneous proposal efforts
- Demonstrated experience managing and coordinating proposals responses by planning resource assignments performing quality assurance and installing processes tools and templates for team use
- Experience with managing capture efforts or a proven understanding of the customers mission and the associated technical domains.
- Experience with developing solutions and content (with subject matter expert support) for assigned opportunities with an understanding of bid price sensitivity applying an overarching pricing strategy to designtocost offering development reflected in an integrated technical management and price win strategy.
- Ability to work across industry to determine teaming strategies and represent the company in a highly ethical manner.
- Have a working knowledge of US Government contracting contract types and procurement processes.
- Experience and skills with communication and technical applications.
- Experience with research and analysis from various data sources
- Presentation skills necessary to present to internal leadership and team members.
EDUCATION
Bachelor preferable but professional experience is Permitted.
- Bachelors degree in Business Business Management Communications or a related field.
- 13 years of experience as a proposal manager or business development specialist as well as experience directly supporting a Cybersecurity or Information Technology company.
CERTIFICATIONS
A minimum of at least one of the following certifications is required:
- Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITILv3)
- Project Management Professional (PMP)
- Security
- Scrum Master
- Certified Manager Certification (CM)
- APMP Certification (Foundation Practitioner Professional Capture Professional)
LOCATION
Zermount Corporate Headquarters in Arlington Virginia. Remote work maybe authorized on occasions.
Employment Type
Full-Time
