Senior Bid Manager

Company Description

Zayo provides mission-critical bandwidth to the world’s most impactful companies, fueling the innovations that are transforming our society. Zayo’s 141,000-mile network in North America and Europe includes extensive metro connectivity to thousands of buildings and data centers. Zayo’s communications infrastructure solutions include dark fiber, private data networks, wavelengths, Ethernet, and dedicated Internet access. Zayo serves wireless and wireline carriers, media, tech, content, finance, healthcare and other large enterprises.

Zayo is seeking a Senior Bid Manager to support the Public Sector Team who will be responsible for managing classified and non-classified proposals. The Senior Bid Manager is a critical role to help respond to opportunities in a hard to penetrate market within the Public Sector Community. The Senior Bid Manager will also respond to Enterprise opportunities when needed.

**Open to remote appicants anywhere in the United States.

Responsibilities:

• Coordination of the bid team to ensure bids are created to the highest quality and submitted on time.

• Owns the proposal development process with the specific responsibility for proposal compliance, development, quality, and on time delivery; develops the proposal compliance matrix.

• Develops a fully articulated proposal outline to ensure 100% compliance.

• Provides proposal outline instructions to the Subject Matter Experts (SME) to define how the project will be implemented, the benefits of Zayo, and substantiation of our claim.

• Develops and maintains the proposal schedule.

• Enforces all schedule milestones. Enforces scheduling of milestones and Action Items for solution development and costing/pricing activities within the proposal schedule.

• Develops the Proposal Kickoff presentation with assistance from Business Development, Engineering and Sales. Prepares and maintains the proposal contact list.

• Develops and maintains the proposal Action Items list with assistance from Sales; 

• Allocates proposal sections to various SMEs and solicits questions from the team and compiles question list for transmittal to the government.

• Compiles post review electronic files for the proposal team.

• Proposal Reviews Requirements: Documents ready for Pink Team MUST be 80% complete.

• Documents ready for Red Team MUST be 100% complete.

• Uploads solicitation material and amendments to the shared resource and notifies the team.

• Coordinates the inclusion of the pricing material into the proposal.

• Closes the proposal in accordance with Zayo procedures. Manages the proposal publications and electronic storage processes.

• Manages the printing, booking, and packaging of proposals. Uses Zayo approved proposal format as modified by the solicitation requirements. Integrates text and graphics into the finished copy.

• Maintains configuration management Performs desktop publishing and illustration support. Prepares both hard and soft copies as required.

Required Clearance:

• Current DOD Secret or TS adjudicated clearance. 

• At a minimum, the candidate is qualified to apply for and obtains a DOD Secret clearance within the first 6 months of employment with Zayo.

Qualifications:

• Prior bid/proposal management expertise within the Telecommunications Intelligence Community (IC) and/or Department of Defense (DoD)

• Bachelor’s Degree or above with minimum of 8 (eight) years of related experience in proposal preparation

• Experience reading and analyzing government requests for proposal (RFPs) and requests for quotation (RFQs)

• Exceptional organizational abilities to manage simultaneously occurring tasks

• Interpersonal, communication, team-building, and attention to detail

• Expert knowledge of MS Office

Base Pay Range: $100,000 - $125,000 USD/annually, commensurate with experience.

Benefits, Rewards & Wellness

• Excellent Health, Dental & Vision Insurance

• Retirement 401(k) Savings Plan

• Fitness membership discounts

• Generous paid time off policy including paid parental leave

Zayo provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, provincial or local laws.

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.