Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Lakeshore Learning Materials creates innovative learning materials and learning experiences for teachers, parents, and children. The Proposal Writer will develop persuasive bid responses, maintain proposal templates and content libraries, improve proposal processes, and lead assigned bids from kickoff through final submission.
Responsibilities
- Developing and rewriting persuasive content across complex bid responses—creating net-new narrative from technical and programmatic source material, and tailoring voice, tone and level of detail so the same information lands with bid evaluators, district decision-makers and senior leadership
- Building and maintaining the proposal templates and content library the rest of the Bid team works from, creating new reusable content, keeping existing content accurate and current, and developing the library into new subject areas as Lakeshore opens into new business and new categories of work
- Driving the development of new template formats and visual standards with our design team—leading the working sessions that set format and visual direction, and ensuring new templates are consistent, on-brand and effective across the team
- Identifying opportunities to improve how proposals are built and implementing those changes with creative and the Bid team, analyzing where the current approach slows the team down or weakens responses, then building and rolling out the fix rather than waiting for it to be assigned
- Leading assigned bid responses end to end, from kickoff through final submission, and managing the schedule across concurrent bids
- Analyzing bid requirements and resolving input from sales, subject matter experts and creative to develop compliant proposal responses
- Ensuring final responses are accurate and consistent in grammar, style, formatting and voice
Skills
- 4+ years of experience in proposal writing, capture management or a similar role
- 4+ years leading or coordinating projects with multiple stakeholders from start to finish
- Bachelor's degree in English, Communications, Journalism, Marketing, Business or a related field
- Experience with RFP/RFQ response and proposal development processes end to end, including building and maintaining reusable content libraries and proposal templates
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite—Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and Teams—plus Adobe Acrobat Pro, TechSmith Snagit and AI writing and content tools
- Availability to flex your schedule to meet submission deadlines, including occasional off-hours work
- You exercise sound judgment independently when a situation is unfamiliar or there's no established precedent to follow
- You work across Sales, Creative and Leadership to bring differing input into a single aligned response
- You identify what's missing or could work better in the proposal approach and act on it, rather than waiting to be asked
- 6+ years in proposal writing, capture management or a similar role
- 6+ years leading projects with multiple stakeholders; experience in B2B sales support or RFP/RFQ response
- Master's degree, or a background in education, manufacturing, distribution or a related sector
- Strong research skills, including effective use of digital research tools
Benefits
- Bonus eligible
- Paid leave for new parents to support work/life balance and family bonding
- Excellent medical/dental and vision coverage—EPO, PPO and HSA
- 401(k) retirement plan with company contribution
- Flexible benefits—choose what you like, ignore the rest
- On-site preschool for our employees’ children
- On-site employee gym for all levels/fitness needs
- Generous employee discount
- Casual dress
- Remote work
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