Moffatt & Nichol is seeking a dynamic individual to join our team of marketing professionals and support the firm's business development efforts. This role leads and supports marketing pursuits with our new and future clients in the area, including Caltrans, LA Metro, Port of Long Beach, Port of Los Angeles, City of Los Angeles, OCTA, SANDAG, and others. Proposal Managers are responsible for leading the development of pursuit strategies and persuasive deliverables that differentiate and create a competitive advantage for our firm. We are open to candidates in any of our Southern California offices (Long Beach, Costa Mesa, Ontario, or San Diego).

Duties and responsibilities:

• Manage transportation-focused proposals, statements of qualification, and pursuit deliverables from capture planning through to shortlist presentation development and coaching for highway, bridge, port, and railroad efforts


• Collaborate with project managers, key engineering and planning staff, graphic designers, and fellow marketers to ensure deliverables meet client needs and RFP/RFQ requirements


• Guide pursuit/proposal teams in developing and refining winning strategies and themes, compelling messages, and persuasive benefit/differentiator pairs


• Develop and write persuasive messages based on information from independent research, meetings with proposal team members, and knowledge of organizational capabilities and services


• Consolidate team input into clear and effective responses, write executive summaries and non-technical content, tailor project and resume information to the specific needs of each pursuit and client


• Provide preliminary and final quality control check of materials, including proofreading for grammar, request for proposal (RFP) compliance, and conformance to proposal strategies and win themes


• Collaborate with graphic designers to develop visual themes that support winning strategies and appropriately address target audience


• Manage and coach large teams of professionals on presentation skills


• Contribute to the firm's newsletter, internal and external communications, award submittals, white papers, industry articles, and conference presentations

Other duties:

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in English, Marketing, Communications, Business, or related discipline, Required


• At least 5 years of professional proposal management experience, with an infrastructure engineering consulting, architectural, or construction firm


• Familiarity and experience completing pursuit and proposal efforts in the Southern California Transportation market or comparable


• High level of proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite (particularly InDesign)


• Experience and success working in a demanding, deadline-driven environment with professionalism, efficiency, and attention to detail


• Demonstrated initiative, follow-through, researching, and problem-solving ability


• Client service oriented

Working conditions:

The work takes place mostly in an office environment. Must be able to work flexible hours (across multiple time zones) and to travel as and when required. Some overtime on workdays and weekends may be required.

Physical requirements:

Sit for long periods of time, interact with clients, and travel occasionally.

Moffatt & Nichol is a global infrastructure advisory firm of 850+ employees in 40+ offices and 7 countries. We provide practical solutions to clients in the marine terminal, transportation, energy, environmental, federal, and urban development markets around the world. We are a multidiscipline professional services firm with specialized expertise in structural, coastal, and civil engineering; environmental sciences; economics analysis; inspection and rehabilitation; and program management solutions.

Moffatt & Nichol's EEO Statement

As a global business, Moffatt & Nichol relies on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our goal of Creative People, Practical solutions serving our client needs, and ensures nondiscrimination in all programs and activities in accordance with Title VI and VII of the Civil rights Act of 1964. We continuously seek talented, qualified employees in our world-wide operations regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, pregnancy, national origin, religion, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, protected veteran status, or any other protected classification under country or local law. Moffatt & Nichol is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Employer/ Federal Contractor desiring priority referrals of all protected veterans for job openings.

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