Proposal Writer

Exela's proposal writers occupy a vital position in our business. We are interested in finding highly-motivated individuals to join the proposal writing team to take on an essential role that brings together opportunity owners and solutions experts and positions our content to drive winning proposals.

This role requires ambition, organization, excellent writing abilities, and a desire to grow within a dynamic, global organization. This is an unparalleled opportunity to take on the challenge of crafting proposals for multi-million dollar deals, develop as a writer and project manager, gain valuable business exposure, and help bring Exela's proposal standards to the next level.

The Proposal Writer must have excellent communication and writing skills to guide sales teams in developing a clear response strategy and writing customer-focused RFP responses and presentations. This position is critical to developing compelling content by translating requirements, sales strategy, and solutions into compliant, customer-ready documents.

This position will work closely with internal Product, Sales, Business Strategy, Client Relations and Delivery teams to ensure the quality, consistency and accuracy of content.

Job Duties & Responsibilities

• Manage the end-to-end RFP response process to ensure all expectations, actions, and timelines are understood and met, and milestones tracked
• Interpret RFP requirements and oversee compliance, and proposal/project reviews
• Guide opportunity team in developing proposal win themes and reflecting them throughout the proposal
• Write, edit, and format proposal documents so that they are accurate, well-written, and persuasive
• Create content and design slides for RFP follow-up presentations, quarterly business reviews and similar
• Continuously improve the proposal content and process through best practices
• Maintain newly created content in a centralized knowledge base
• Assist the Marketing and Communications teams as needed

Communication Skills

Requires a proactive approach to all projects and an ability to work independently without close oversight from management - must be a proven self-starter. Excellent written communication is a MUST and all suitable candidates shall submit writing samples. Strong interpersonal skills required to effectively interact with opportunity team, management, and peers. Ability to document and communicate problem/resolution and information/action plans is also essential.

Qualifications

• 2 years of proposal writing/proposal management experience
• A bachelor's degree in business administration, English, communications, or related field
• Experience with Microsoft Office and Google Suite
• Project management

Successful candidates will have a "can-do" attitude and possess:

• A deep understanding of the proposal process
• Excellent writing and communication skills
• Extensive working knowledge of document production software
• Ability to work under time constraints
• Ability to work effectively with a team
• Strong project management skills

Even Better If You Have:

• APMP certification
• PMP certification
• Enterprise-level experience
• Technology, business process outsourcing, business process automation experience
• Technical writing experience
• Qvidian content management experience