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OSI Systems

Proposal Manager

OSI Systems, Dallas, Texas, United States, 75215

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Overview Continental Electronics Corporation is a leading provider of RF technologies and innovative solutions with over 75 years of proven performance. CEC has experienced significant recent growth and has established itself as the go‑to supplier for a diversified product line supporting a wide spectrum of markets from commercial products, military customers, to space research laboratories.

CEC seeks a Proposal Manager to be a key member of our Pursuit and Order Capture (P/OC) efforts. The Proposal Manager will work closely with Capture Teams and facilitate the development and production of Continental Electronics responses to customer’s request for information, request for proposals and other customer requested responses in support of our pursuit of new opportunities. This individual will also work closely with members of the Capture Center in addition to the Capture Team members. Reports to the VP of Sales and Marketing.

Responsibilities

Thorough understanding of the business development lifecycle and hands‑on experience working within the proposal planning, development, and post‑submission phases

Create proposal timelines

Issue assignments to members of their team

Ensure everyone on the team meets their deadlines

Create and give presentations to supervisors and other members in the organization about the Request for Proposal

Collaborate with other departments to write and implement proposals

Proven skills in technical and persuasive writing, editing, and publishing proposal content within a complex business environment

Results‑driven leader with a record of motivating and energizing teams to successfully accomplish organizational goals

Thorough understanding of proposal development process

Facilitate team assignments to align with proposal schedule, including proposal development as well as reviews (Pink, Red and Gold Team reviews) ensuring requests are appropriately supported; job skills that exhibit an ability to work under pressure and to challenging deadlines

Ensure delivery of compliant, professionally produced proposals within customer defined timeframes and serves as an escalation point for issues impacting success; coordinating facilities, including coordination of audio/video resources, establishment of information technology resources, training proposal team members in the use of toolsets and proposal procedures

Supporting color reviews by scheduling review meetings; document preparation; configuration and administration of review tools, coordinating all input/outputs from the review meetings; assist in the development of the review team information packet; and distribution of materials as required

Advanced desktop publishing, including complex manipulation of proposal documents including the positioning of text and graphic elements, formatting properties such as the size and style of type, column width, and spacing, performing quality check for document errors, coordination of graphics workflow, and the use and knowledge of Microsoft Office macros

Lead the proposal process with tasks, but not limited to, efforts such as:

Creation and review of proposal outline to ensure compliance and responsiveness

Scheduling and running proposal kick‑off meetings, leading storyboarding sessions, workshops and key review meetings

Coach content owners/subject matter experts in persuasive writing and proposal best practices focusing on compliance, responsiveness, flow and messaging

Final document review, document production, and delivery of completed proposal

Coordinate and update proposal content libraries

Other responsibilities as assigned

Uphold the company’s core values of Integrity, Innovation, Accountability, and Teamwork

Demonstrate behavior consistent with the company’s Code of Ethics and Conduct

It is the responsibility of every employee to report to their manager or a member of senior management any quality problems or defects in order for corrective action to be implemented and to avoid recurrence of the problem

Duties may be modified or assigned at any time to meet the needs of the business

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree and 8 years of relevant experience OR Advanced degree and 5 years of relevant experience

Minimal travel to support pursuit efforts in various locations is required

Ability to obtain a U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) security clearance is required

U.S. citizenship is required

Physical Demands The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, use hands to finger, handle, or feel, reach with hands and arms and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must rarely lift and/or move up to 10 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, peripheral vision and ability to adjust focus. Reasonable accommodations will be made.

Benefits Please review our benefits here: Life at OSI

Notice to Third Party Agencies OSI Systems, Inc. and its subsidiaries (collectively “OSI”) does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or employment agencies. If any person or entity, including a recruiter or agency, submits any information, including any resume or information regarding any potential candidate, without a signed agreement in place with OSI, OSI explicitly reserves the right to use such information, and pursue and/or hire such candidates, without any financial obligation to the person, recruiter or agency. Any unsolicited information or resumes, including those submitted directly to hiring managers, are considered and deemed to be the property of OSI.

Equal Opportunity Employer – Disability and Veteran Poster Link: https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2023-06/22-088_EEOC_KnowYourRights6.12ScreenRdr.pdf

Company Overview OSI Systems, Inc. has three operating divisions: (a) Security, providing security and inspection systems, turnkey security screening solutions and related services; (b) Healthcare, providing patient monitoring, diagnostic cardiology and anesthesia systems; and (c) Optoelectronics and manufacturing, providing specialized electronic components and electronic manufacturing services for original equipment manufacturers with applications in the defense, aerospace, medical and industrial markets, among others.

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