Geonetric is hiring: Creative Proposal Writer & Manager in Cedar Rapids

Content Summary : Creative Proposal Writer & Manager at Cedar Rapids, for Geonetric

Summary

As Geonetric’s creative proposal writer and manager you’re responsible for developing creative, winning proposals for a variety of our digital marketing products and services. You’ll manage all aspects of our proposal process from maintaining our proposal software to writing creative content to creating and formatting the proposal document to evaluating results. You’ll work closely with Geonetric teams to develop and refine product messaging and stay ahead of new product development. You’ll work closely with the sales team to tell the Geonetric story through strong executive summaries and continually iterate and enhance our proposal documents. And you’ll do this all on time and flawlessly. You own an integral piece of our sales process and are responsible for ensuring our proposal sets us apart from the competition and moves us to the next step in the process.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

While you might get to work on just about anything at Geonetric, you’ll primarily :

Manage the proposal development process with the goal of continually enhancing our proposals, improving our wins rates, and responding to RFPs in a comprehensive and urgent manner

Collaborate with multiple teams, including engineering, digital services, sales and implementation to create custom proposals for prospective and current clients

Manage content repositories and own content governance for proposals and other sales documents by auditing existing content, editing and adapting content to changing needs, validating content with subject matter experts, aligning content with business goals and initiatives, and maintaining consistency through quality control measures

Create, update, and maintain templates for proposals, ensuring accuracy, persuasiveness, quality, readability, consistency, and proper tone and voice

Stay on top of current Geonetric products and services and incorporate changes and enhancements into proposal language ensuring current specifications are reflected

Ensure all proposal content aligns with marketing guidelines and brand specifications

Review other sales materials to ensure consistency with all touchpoints in the sales process

Customize proposals for the target audience by altering language and tone and tailoring the executive summary

Meet proposal deadlines by leading proposal meetings and establishing priorities and target dates for information gathering, writing, review, and approval

Measure the success of proposals by establishing metrics, monitoring results and recommending improvements

Continually reassess proposal and process by understanding market trends, positioning against competitor’s offerings, and monitoring feedback from prospects and clients

Maintain, optimize and leverage proposal software

Monitor RFP sites in order to alert sales of new opportunities

Collaborate with sales and marketing to create other sales and marketing materials, as needed

Education and Experience

Bachelor’s degree in Business, Marketing, Finance, English or related field required

5 years of previous related experience required

Professional Skills

Strong storytelling skills required

Comfortable with creative writing and generating custom content

Ability to synthesize large volumes of information and express them clearly in writing required

Excellent proofreading and grammatical skills required

Exceptional written and oral communication skills required

Strong analytical skills required

Knowledge of healthcare and software industries preferred

Ability to understand technical language preferred

Ability to manage complex processes preferred

Other Skills and Abilities In addition to being an amazing Creative Proposal Writer and Manager, you’ll need to fit into our unique culture and be :

Self-organized. You’ll be a part of a self-organizing team, with no one “supervising” you. You should naturally get a lot of high quality work done to completion without outside pressure.

A doer. You need to be capable of identifying and resolving obstacles, using strong reasoning skills and creative thinking to get things done. You need to have a strong attention to detail, a drive for quality, and a willingness to see things through to completion.

Flexible. You need to be able to work in an environment in which there is substantial ambiguity; things change rapidly and often, and you need to adapt to new ways of thinking.

Self-aware. You need to be able to see yourself and your own behaviors from the perspective of others – and understand how your behaviors affect those of your peers on your self-organizing team.

Driven to improve. You need to have a strong desire to be better tomorrow than you are today. You are constantly seeking ways to improve your own work. You’re passionate about your discipline.

A solid communicator. You need to be able to take input from many sources, think through that information, and present concise, clear recommendations to technical and non-technical people.

EEOC

Geonetric welcomes diversity. We are an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer and provide a fun place to work full of people with different backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. All qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected Veteran status.

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