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About the Role

RSM is seeking an experienced Proposal Manager to lead and coordinate strategically important proposals, bids, and presentations. This role involves combining proposal management, content development, stakeholder engagement, and coaching to help opportunity teams create high-quality, client-focused, and commercially compelling submissions. You will work closely with partners, directors, and subject matter experts to lead opportunity win strategies and proposal development throughout the proposal lifecycle.

Responsibilities

Lead the end-to-end delivery of complex proposals, tenders and strategic opportunities, coordinating resources, governance and submission activities to achieve successful outcomes.
Coordinate cross-functional proposal teams including partners, directors, subject matter experts, marketing, creative, finance, legal, risk and delivery teams.
Take ownership of proposal production, using the tender requirements to build a clear response matrix or proposal outline that ensures all questions, evaluation criteria, mandatory requirements and win themes are fully addressed in a compliant and compelling response.
Personally develop, write and edit proposal content where required, translating technical, commercial and operational information into persuasive, client-focused responses, ensuring one coherent voice.

Requirements

Significant experience managing complex bids, proposals and pursuits within a professional services, consultancy or similarly complex B2B environment.
Strong proposal management expertise, including planning, stakeholder management, content development and governance.
Excellent proposal writing, editing and storytelling skills, with the ability to create compelling and persuasive client-facing content.
Demonstrable ability to lead opportunity strategy development and translate complex solutions into compelling client-focused proposals.
Strong stakeholder engagement and influencing skills, with the confidence to work effectively with senior leaders and challenge constructively when required.
Experience coaching contributors and proposal teams to improve quality and performance.
Commercial awareness and an understanding of opportunity qualification, client buying behaviour and competitive positioning.
Excellent organisational and project management skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines simultaneously.
A proactive, collaborative and solution-focused approach with a commitment to continuous improvement.
Strong attention to detail, with a commitment to maintaining brand standards, consistency and quality across all proposal, pitch and presentation materials.

Skills

Proposal management
Content development
Stakeholder engagement
Coaching
Proposal writing
Editing
Storytelling
Opportunity strategy development
Influencing skills
Project management
Attention to detail

Location

Hybrid

Work Type

Hybrid
Flexible working

Experience Level

Experienced

Benefits

Flexible reward and benefits package
Lifestyle, Health, and Wellbeing benefits
Financial wellbeing benefits
Financial tools
Electric car scheme
Access to a virtual GP
Access to a suite of 300+ courses on demand

About the Company

RSM is one of the world's largest networks of audit, tax and consulting firms, delivering big ideas and premium service to help middle-market businesses thrive.
RSM is a fast-growing firm with clear ambitions to become the premium adviser to the middle market, globally.
The firm's vision touches everything they do, motivating and inspiring them to become better every day.

Equal Opportunity

At RSM, we want to create a strong sense of belonging so that people of all identities, backgrounds, and cultures feel they can bring their true self to work.
We aim to achieve the same diversity of background, experience and perspective in our own teams, so that we can genuinely understand our client's needs.
Diverse teams bring a broader range of ideas and insights to work.
We're working together to ensure our firm's principles and processes support a firm culture that embraces difference and strengthens inclusion.