• Manage End-to-End Proposal Delivery: Deliver compliant, professionally produced proposals within defined timeframes, including participation in the development and review of proposal strategies and themes. • Collaborate and Coach Stakeholders: Coordinate and review/edit proposal input from a variety of Subject Matter Experts (SMEs), and coach sales teams and SMEs in persuasive writing and proposal best practice. • Ensure Compliance and Quality Assurance: Direct the creation and review of proposal outlines and compliance matrices, ensuring adherence to all necessary proposal procedures and processes, as well as organizational standards and government acquisition regulations.

Title: Senior Proposal Manager Location: Catonsville, Maryland, United States Department: Corporate Job Description: Description The Senior Proposal Manager leads high stakes federal proposals across the full business development lifecycle—from shaping and capture through submission and post award transition. This senior role is ideal for a proven proposal leader who can also oversee proposal operations at an enterprise level: processes, templates, schedules, color team rigor, tools, and cross organizational coordination. The position supports a diverse portfolio with an emphasis on DoD, plus IC and Civilian agencies. The role is fully remote, with virtual collaboration as the standard operating mode. This fully remote role is ideal for a seasoned proposal leader who can run complex, strategic bids while leveraging AI tools and prompt engineering to enhance content quality, speed, and compliance. What You’ll Do - Lead end to end proposal development (RFIs, RFPs, RFQs, IDIQs/GWACs, task orders). - Drive capture alignment, win strategies, themes, discriminators, and compliance. - Build PDPs, schedules, compliance matrices, outlines, and storyboards. - Facilitate color team reviews; elevate narrative quality through SME coaching. - Supervise, train, and mentor less experienced proposal staff, including writers and coordinators. - Oversee DTP, graphics, and visual standards to ensure consistent, high quality production. - Use AI tools and prompt engineering best practices to accelerate content development, refine narratives, perform quality reviews, and support strategy alignment - Coordinate pricing activities (BOE inputs, assumptions, schedule management; no pricing execution required). - Support orals preparation, coaching, and visual development. - Lead final production, compliant submission, and EN/DR response cycles Requirements - 5+ years leading winning federal proposals, with demonstrable success on complex, multi volume pursuits - Proven success managing complex multi volume proposals in a remote environment. - Demonstrated ability to apply AI tools, prompt engineering, and iterative refinement practices in proposal development - Experience mentoring junior staff and overseeing DTP/graphics workflows. - Expertise with Shipley/APMP methods; APMP Practitioner or higher preferred. - Strong writing, editing, facilitation, and schedule management skills. - Deep understanding of FAR/DFARS and federal evaluation criteria. - TS Clearance preferred (active or able to obtain/upgrade). Why You’ll Love It - Fully remote role with high influence on proposal operations and AI enhanced processes. - Opportunity to mentor emerging talent and raise organizational proposal maturity. - Work on strategic, high visibility federal pursuits. Benefits Join PROSYNC and enjoy our great benefits! Health & Retirement - We offer a comprehensive Health Benefits package and 401K retirement plan so you can take care of yourself and your family, now and in the future. Other health-related benefits include an employee assistance program for those difficult times or when you need to take care of your mental health. Education - Individual growth is a priority at ProSync. Employees are encouraged to take advantage of our company-sponsored continuing education program so they can get their degree or that next certification they need to propel them to the next level. Work/Life Balance - A healthy work/life balance is essential for building and executing your work effectively at ProSync, but it’s also necessary to allow you the room to pursue everything else you want to develop in your personal life. We offer generous Paid Time Off and 11 paid holidays a year. ProSync also provides flexible work options that work with your schedule and lifestyle.

• Review and ensure compliance with RFP (Request for Proposal) requirements. • Manage and track proposal timelines, deliverables, and submission deadlines. • Fill out required forms and documentation (e.g., W9 and other compliance documents). • Coordinate with internal stakeholders to gather required inputs and ensure completeness. • Create and format RFP responses using organizational templates (e.g., Highstreet template). • Compile, edit, and structure content from multiple contributors. • Ensure consistency, clarity, and professional presentation of all proposal documents. • Submit completed proposals as per client requirements and guidelines. • Maintain and enhance boilerplate content for reuse in proposals. • Assist in developing and formatting sales presentations using PowerPoint. • Support documentation efforts, including writing and editing standard response content.

Title: Sr. State Government Proposal Manager - Remote Location: Fairfax United States Requisition number: 2348894 Job category: Sales Support Primary location: Fairfax, VA Overtime status: Exempt Travel: No Job Description: Optum is a global organization that delivers care, aided by technology to help millions of people live healthier lives. The work you do with our team will directly improve health outcomes by connecting people with the care, pharmacy benefits, data and resources they need to feel their best. Here, you will find a culture guided by inclusion, talented peers, comprehensive benefits and career development opportunities. Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health optimization on a global scale. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together. The Sr. State Government Proposal Manager works with the Optum Insight State Government Solutions team to develop high-quality, compliant, compelling proposals. This includes managing the proposal process from start to finish. The ideal candidate must be able to think tactically, critically and strategically; build great partnerships with internal stakeholders (Capture Managers, Sales, Legal, Finance, etc.); and effectively manage a proposal. This candidate must be able to collaborate within a deadline-driven work environment. The abilities to manage and communicate at all levels, meet tight deadlines, commitment to teamwork, detailed follow-through, and a positive demeanor are essential keys to success in this role. You'll enjoy the flexibility to work remotely * from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges. Primary Responsibilities: The ideal candidate must be able to independently manage complex proposals to include: - Effectively manage the full lifecycle of the RFP, inclusive of the PMP, kickoff meeting, writers assignments and calls, scheduling, proposal structure, compliance, coordination of all response templates, and review cycle coordination, color team reviews, formatting/editing, production, etc. - Analyze RFP documents and ensure the proposal structure complies with the RFP requirements - Track and report the status of all the proposal elements during writings call - Facilitate draft reviews and debriefs (pink/red team, debrief and recovery) - Establish and enforce the proposal schedule and update as needed - Remain current on all solicitation amendments and communicate them to the team - Ensure proposal compliance, checking all the section templates for compliance regularly through the proposal cycle - Anticipate potential trouble areas and work with the capture team to provide solution as they arise - Collaborate with various stakeholders, including capture manager, subject matter experts, production team, contracts, finance, legal and sales - Participate with and contribute to process development (Coaching sessions, storyboards, etc.) - Create a proposal management plan that includes all RFP sections and a calendar with all deadlines - Communicates and coordinates with Capture Manager to understand client strategy and associated win themes, overall story, features and benefits of the proposed solution - Help lead and facilitate coaching session/storyboard calls to include client strategy, themes, and discriminators are reflected in the writing plan - Manage question submission to the government in coordination with legal team - Communicates and coordinates subcontractors involved with the proposal writing and data calls as needed - Set up meetings and schedules; record and distribute meeting minutes; record, distribute, and maintain action items; and prepare all documentation independently - Assemble the original documentations, which are used to print the reproduction of the proposal, qualifications document, and/or presentation materials - Create, gather, and organize information from many sources; transmit data to appropriate support group; and ensure the timeliness and compliance of the final product - Track and report the status of all proposal sections - Excellent communication skills (oral and written), time management, such as Collaborate with various stakeholders, including, capture manager, subject matter experts, production team, contracts, finance, legal and sales - Experienced in taking initiative proactively, such as staying current on all solicitation amendments and communicating them to the team - Ability to prioritize effectively/efficiently, such as enforcing the proposal schedule and update as needed - Adept reading comprehension skills and ability to ensure proposal compliance, checking all the section templates for compliance regularly through the proposal cycle - Experience in and ability to prepare documentation for kickoff shortly after RFP release - Experience creating a proposal management plan that includes all RFP sections and a calendar with all deadlines - Experience in applying a style guide and advanced word formatting. (e.g. knowing how to apply various styles within Word and now to apply styles based on branding) You'll be rewarded and recognized for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear direction on what it takes to succeed in your role as well as provide development for other roles you may be interested in. Required Qualifications: - 7+ years of proposal management experience with State Government Proposals - Demonstrated experience in and ability to manage the proposal schedule and tasks within from start to finish, including but not limited to scheduling kickoff meetings, writers calls, writers assignments, proposal structure, coordination of response templates, review cycle coordination such as color team reviews and whiteglove - Experience in scoping work; able to prioritize assignments and accurately assess time needed for and draft reviews and debriefs (pink/red team, debrief and recovery) - Demonstrated advanced levels of experience in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, SharePoint, etc.), and Adobe Acrobat and MS Teams - Proven ability to quickly analyze and understand complex State RFP documents and ensure the proposal structure complies with the RFP requirements and mapping requirements and/or documents - Demonstrated ability to comfortably create templates/edit templates, create a PMP in Excel for tracking purposes and create PowerPoint slides for various instructions and working within Teams and Sharepoint) - Proven effective in team collaboration, such as facilitate coaching session/storyboard calls to include client strategy, themes, and discriminators are reflected in the writing plan Preferred Qualifications: - Shipley Certification - APMP Certification - Ability to work in a deadline driven environment - All employees working remotely will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group's Telecommuter Policy Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to local labor markets, education, work experience, certifications, etc. In addition to your salary, we offer benefits such as, a comprehensive benefits package, incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase and 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). No matter where or when you begin a career with us, you'll find a far-reaching choice of benefits and incentives. The salary for this role will range from $91,700 to $163,700 annually based on full-time employment. We comply with all minimum wage laws as applicable. Application Deadline: This will be posted for a minimum of 2 business days or until a sufficient candidate pool has been collected. Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants. At UnitedHealth Group, our mission is to help people live healthier lives and make the health system work better for everyone. We believe everyone-of every race, gender, sexuality, age, location and income-deserves the opportunity to live their healthiest life. Today, however, there are still far too many barriers to good health which are disproportionately experienced by people of color, historically marginalized groups and those with lower incomes. We are committed to mitigating our impact on the environment and enabling and delivering equitable care that addresses health disparities and improves health outcomes - an enterprise priority reflected in our mission. UnitedHealth Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer under applicable law and qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, religion, age, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by local, state, or federal laws, rules, or regulations. UnitedHealth Group is a drug - free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.