Proposal Team Lead
About this role
About the Role
Infrastructure Engineering Inc. (IEI) is looking for an experienced Proposal Team Lead to join our Team! Do you love the thrill of receiving an award letter after preparing a masterfully woven proposal that perfectly showcases your team’s skills and experience? We’re looking for you. Do you want to be part of a dynamic, diverse team that values individual skills AND collaboration? We’re the place for you. Our firm is expanding to new cities and taking on new challenges. If you have an entrepreneurial spirit, great story telling abilities, and a growth mindset, you’ll be the perfect addition to our team.
We are a leading engineering firm known for quality and responsiveness and a proven track record of success as a Prime civil engineering firm. Our firm is growing rapidly, and we’re looking for an experienced wordsmith with matching InDesign skills who knows how to craft winning responses to RFPs and RFQs in the civil/structural engineering world. Your proven skills and industry experience will play a critical role in our company’s continued growth by developing clever strategies, artfully managing the proposal team, and developing winning responses…..and we’re really fun to work with! Join us on this exciting journey as we continue to build a company based on Integrity, Excellence, and Ingenuity!
Key Responsibilities:
- Create customized and comprehensive proposals, managing the composition/production of all proposal components ensuring full compliance with RFQ/RFP requirements.
- Collaborate with team members to compile information and manage deliverables from multiple contributors – technical, business development, internal marketing team, and teaming partners.
- Manage proposal timelines and coordinate with internal stakeholders to meet deadlines.
- Engage/manage proposal team resources to oversee/produce multiple, concurrent proposals.
- Review and synthesize RFQs and RFPs to create clear proposal roadmaps.
- Conduct necessary research.
- Bring our brand, our experience, and our personnel to life for prospective clients by weaving persuasive stories based on sound strategies and cohesive themes and combining them with top notch graphics and layouts.
- Write, edit, proofread proposal content to ensure completeness, coherence and compliance.
- Help build a highly productive, highly successful proposal team.
- Look for and implement opportunities for efficiencies in the proposal production process.
- Manage/Create InDesign templates or other graphic materials as needed.
To Be Successful
- Bachelor’s Degree in Marketing, Communications, English, or other related fields.
- Ideal candidate should have 7-10 years proven experience crafting proposals in the AEC Industry; with a focus on Civil Engineering a plus.
- Must have a strong knowledge of the RFP/RFQ process for state, county, and municipal transportation agencies.
- Strong understanding of AEC terminology, methods, and industry practices.
- Advanced InDesign skills are a must; and proficiency with other Adobe products is a plus.
- Exceptional writing and verbal editing skills with an eye for detail a must.
- Creative ability to develop visually unique graphics for proposal covers, tables, and illustrations.
- Ability to work both independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced environment as well as able to manage multiple deadlines.
- Must be able to develop professional relationships.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Willing to assist in developing other marketing materials, as needed.
Benefits and Perks
- Highly competitive salary; and Bonus opportunities
- Hybrid work environment
- Flexible Work Schedule
- Medical, Dental, and Vision Benefits
- Personal Paid Leave (Paid Time-Off)
- Paid Holidays
- Life Insurance
- Short and Long-term Disability Program
- 401K Program with Employer Match
- Profit Sharing
- Employee Assistance Program
- Employee Referral Program
- Employee Appreciation Program
- IEI University
- An opportunity to learn and grow - Professional Development Program
- Opportunity to share ideas and express your point of view
- You are welcome to be your authentic self
- Philanthropic Outreach and Volunteer Opportunities
Physical Demands
The physical demands described here represent those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to sit and talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to stand, walk; use hands to fingers, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls; reach with hands and arms; and may occasionally stoop, kneel, crouch, or climb a ladder/stepstool. The employee may lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.
Work Environment
The work environment characteristics described here represent those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee will work in an office environment or a remote/home office space and requires the ability to operate standard office equipment and keyboards; and requires the ability to walk short distances and occasionally requires lifting and caring smaller parcel, packages and other items while walking short distances. May occasionally require work outdoors in various weather conditions, possibly for an extended period depending on the assignment type.
IEI is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to the principles of equal opportunity for all employees and applicants for employment.
Applicants must be authorized to work for ANY employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.
Company at a glance
Infrastructure Engineering Inc. (IEI) is a majority African American-owned, multi-disciplinary consulting firm with offices in eight states that delivers design engineering, program management, and construction engineering and inspection services. We partner with public agencies and private owners of all sizes to reduce risk, compress schedules, and keep critical infrastructure and communities moving. Our local teams deliver practical, resilient, and responsive transportation systems that meet the highest standards of safety, compliance, and performance.
We deliver civil and structural engineering solutions for complex highway, roadway, streetscape, bridge, water management, mass transit, and aviation projects.
Our approach has earned us multiple industry awards, for both engineering solutions and our company culture. We were recently recognized by ACEC NY for our DEI initiatives that foster a supportive and inclusive workplace.
IEI values our clients, partners, and employees because these relationships allow us to live our mission of connecting communities through every project that we deliver.
Founded1998
Team Size201-500 employees
WorkspaceHybrid
IndustryCivil Engineering
Location
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Websiteinfrastructure-eng.com
LinkedInLinkedIn
Top Benefits
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Paid time-off
- Paid holidays
- Life insurance
- Short-term disability program
- Long-term disability program
- 401k program with employer match
- Profit sharing
- Employee assistance program
- Employee referral program
- Employee appreciation program
- Professional development program
- Bonus opportunities
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