Senior Proposal Manager (Falls Church)

Senior Proposal Manager

This is a U.S. based position. All of the programs we support require U.S. citizenship to be eligible for employment. All work must be conducted within the continental U.S.

Raft is a customer-obsessed non-traditional small business with a purposeful focus on Distributed Data Systems, Platforms at Scale, and Complex Application Development, with headquarters in McLean, VA. Our range of clients include innovative federal and public agencies leveraging design thinking, cutting edge tech stack, and cloud native ecosystem. We build digital solutions that impact the lives of millions of Americans.

About the Role

As a Senior Proposal Manager, you'll manage complex responses to RFPs, RFQs, and RFIs under the Director of Proposal Operations. You'll drive proposal development and process improvement while maintaining strong performance in demanding environments with competing priorities and tight deadlines.

What You'll Do :

• Lead proposal development process from pre-proposal through post-proposal phases
• Analyze solicitations, develop schedules, outlines, compliance matrices, and coordinate stakeholder content
• Manage proposal timelines to ensure timely delivery and requirement compliance
• Ensure technical solutions, win themes, and compliance are well-articulated throughout final documents
• Conduct color team reviews and work with Solution Architects on content development
• Support administrative volume development and maintain brand standard compliance
• Track proposal status, conduct win / loss analysis, and lead team debriefs
• Maintain project profiles, resumes, references, and past performance databases
• Define and implement continual proposal process improvements

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Our Vision Statement : We bridge the gap between humans and data through radical transparency and our obsession with the mission.

Our Customer Obsession : We will approach every deliverable like its a product. We will adopt a customer-obsessed mentality. As we grow, and our footprint becomes larger, teams and employees will treat each other not only as teammates but customers. We must live the customer-obsessed mindset, always. This will help us scale and it will translate to the interactions that our Rafters have with their clients and other product teams that they integrate with. Our culture will enable our success and set us apart from other companies.

How do we get there? Public-sector modernization is critical for us to live in a better world. We, at Raft, want to innovate and solve complex problems. And, if we are successful, our generation and the ones that follow us will live in a delightful, efficient, and accessible world where out-of-box thinking, and collaboration is a norm. Raft's core philosophy is Ubuntu : I Am, Because We Are. We support our nadi by elevating the other Rafters. We work as a hyper collaborative team where each team member brings a unique perspective, adding value that did not exist before. People make Raft special. We celebrate each other and our cognitive and cultural diversity. We are devoted to our practice of innovation and collaboration.

We're an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.