Overview
Proposal Manager – Ottawa Jobs in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada at CGI
Title: Proposal Manager – Ottawa
Company: CGI
Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Position Description
Working onsite in the National Capital region, the Proposal Manager plays a crucial role in the success of our bids by ensuring that the proposal process is organized, compliant, and timely. They coordinate all stakeholders, manage deadlines, and oversee the development of content, ensuring that every aspect aligns with client requirements and internal governance. Their ability to lead teams, resolve issues, and maintain quality control directly impacts the competitiveness and professionalism of the final submission, making them key to winning business opportunities.
Your future duties and responsibilities
- Performs Proposal Management role, ensuring internal processes and appropriate governance are followed.
- Leads bid teams from kick off through compliant bid submission.
- Develops and manages bid plan/timeline, ensuring sign offs and approvals are obtained.
- Schedules necessary meetings with various stakeholders and teams.
- Coordinates bid content and manages requirements.
- Leads status meetings, shares documented actions, and follows up to ensure task completion.
- Escalates issues for timely resolution.
- Scores rated responses and enhances CVs for proposals.
- Conducts competitive analysis and market research.
- Maintains and updates accurate records.
- Provides back up support for procurement searches, document formatting, and document manager duties as needed.
Required Qualifications To Be Successful In This Role
- Minimum 5 years’ experience in the following federal government RFx activities (project management experience will be considered)
- Strong attention to detail and project management skills (3 5 years)
- Advanced MS Word skills and proficiency in MS Office; Subject Matter Expertise in proposal and RFP best practices, or similar successful project management experience
- Highly skilled in matrices and gridding, ensuring accurate, organized, and compliant responses in government proposals
- Ability to work cross functionally while managing multiple priorities.
- Highly organized with a strong attention to detail
- Positive, flexible, team oriented approach with the willingness and desire to work as a part of a multidisciplinary team
- Self motivated and independent
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Internal applicants are encouraged to apply should you have some or most of the qualifications, together with a strong interest in the role.
- Together, as owners, let’s turn meaningful insights into action.
- Life at CGI is rooted in ownership, teamwork, respect and belonging. Here, you’ll reach your full potential because…
CGI is providing a reasonable estimate of the pay range for this role. The determination of this range includes factors such as skill set level, geographic market, experience and training, and licenses and certifications. Compensation decisions depend on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is $90,000–$140000. This role is an existing vacancy.
Together, as owners, let’s turn meaningful insights into action.
Life at CGI is rooted in ownership, teamwork, respect and belonging. Here, you’ll reach your full potential because…
You are invited to be an owner from day 1 as we work together to bring our Dream to life. That’s why we call ourselves CGI Partners rather than employees. We benefit from our collective success and actively shape our company’s strategy and direction.
Your work creates value. You’ll develop innovative solutions and build relationships with teammates and clients while accessing global capabilities to scale your ideas, embrace new opportunities, and benefit from expansive industry and technology expertise.
You’ll shape your career by joining a company built to grow and last. You’ll be supported by leaders who care about your health and well-being and provide you with opportunities to deepen your skills and broaden your horizons.
At CGI, we value the strength that diversity brings and are committed to fostering a workplace where everyone belongs. We collaborate with our clients to build more inclusive communities and empower all CGI partners to thrive. As an equal-opportunity employer, being able to perform your best during the recruitment process is important to us. If you require an accommodation, please inform your recruiter.
That same commitment to fairness extends to how we use technology. To support our recruitment team, AI tools may be used to help assess applications though they never replace human judgement. All hiring decisions remain entirely in the hands of our recruitment professionals.
To learn more about accessibility at CGI, contact us via email. Please note that this email is strictly for accessibility requests and cannot be used for application status inquiries.
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