Sr Proposals & Contracts Manager - Public Sector, Bid Capture

What you'll do

• Manage RFP, RFQ, and RFI responses, including solicitation analysis, bid/no-bid decisions, schedules, compliance, and submissions.
• Review and negotiate public-sector contracts, manage risks and lifecycle records, and ensure required clauses and certifications are met.
• Promote automation and AI across bid and contract workflows, including reusable content, clause libraries, and quality controls.

What they ask for

• Bachelor's degree
• 5+ years of experience in proposal management, contract management, capture, or bid management
• Experience with public-sector (federal, state, and/or local) solicitations
• Working knowledge of the FAR and/or state/local procurement frameworks, including mandatory clauses, certifications, and representations

Nice to have

• Experience across the capture-to-contract lifecycle, including early opportunity shaping and bid/no-bid qualification
• Experience applying AI/automation to proposal or contract workflows; experience with cooperative purchasing vehicles and multi-entity public-sector contracting

Pay

162,700.00 - 220,200.00 USD annually (base salary); 147,900.00 - 200,100.00 USD annually (base salary)

AI focus

Champion AI and automation to shape and qualify opportunities, accelerate responses, improve compliance and efficiency, and support drafting, content and clause libraries, pWin scoring, contract redlining, and quality controls for AI-generated outputs.