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Lockheed Martin is looking for an energetic, hardworking, and experienced proposal manager to join the Fleet Ballistic Missile program. The most successful candidate for this position will bring leadership experience, positivity, strategic thinking, and key proposal and program management principles to the team. This position will be located in Titusville, FL or Englewood, CO.

• This includes complete ownership of managing the LE Proposal team and leading LM internal stakeholders across multiple proposals, with full proposal cycle oversight of schedule, budget, and proposed work scope that meets the Navyʼs requirements and adheres to Lockheed Martin requirements/standards.
• This position will report to the FBM D5LE Business Integration Program Manager.

As the D5LE Program Proposal Manager your responsibilities will include:

• Manage, lead, and execute annual sustainment proposals, including on-contract change proposals required on the current contract - from draft request for proposal (RFP) all the way through proposal submittal, follow on fact finding and negotiation efforts, while partnering heavily across Navy partners and all internal program stakeholders.
• Support, participation in, and understanding of strategic planning and cross-FBM program efforts will be required in addition to proposal management.
• Travel is expected with this position, likely 30% of the time.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelors degree from an accredited college in a related discipline, or equivalent experience/combined education
• Ability to produce strategic, customer focused, and compliant proposal(s) that adhere to DoD contractual standards.
• Experience with corporate level required reviews, leading to proposal submit.
• Experience leading multi-disciplinary teams.
• Experience with executive level communications.
• Experience with DoD customers.
• You will need to be a US Citizen, and currently hold and maintain a US DoD SECRET clearance, to support this government contract, as well as successfully pass a drug and background check, in order to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.

Desired Skills

• Experience working with multiple and large product teams, leading technical input/scope to decompose for proposal content, meeting and demonstrating traceability to customer requirements
• Experience with writing, reviewing, and providing feedback on basis of estimates (BOEs), specifically the scope, to support teams strengthening inputs into the proposal in alignment with requirements
• Experience partnering on supply chain strategy for subcontract(s) included in on contract and future proposal scope
• Experience with government budgeting processes, US defense acquisition, and on a Strategic Weapons Systems development program is highly desired
• Experience in project management, finance, systems engineering, and/or new business efforts
• Strong organization, analytical, presentation, communications, and interpersonal skills