Senior Manager, Proposal Development

Paragon Gene Therapy, now a part of Catalent, hires people with a passion to make a difference. Your expertise, coupled with our advanced technologies and collaboration with innovative pharmaceutical, biotech and healthcare companies, will help bring life-enhancing products to the people you know and love. Your talents, ideas and passion are essential to our mission; to develop, manufacture and supply products that help people live better, healthier lives.

Paragon Gene Therapy, in Baltimore, Catonsville, Gaithersburg, & Harmans, Maryland, provides industry-leading GMP development and manufacturing services for cutting-edge biopharmaceuticals such as recombinant viral vectors, next generation vaccines & hard-to-express recombinant proteins and oncolytic viruses.

The Senior Manager, Proposal Development will be responsible for developing proposals for a comprehensive range of CDMO services and project types, supporting the Business Development team. The Senior Manager, Proposal Development works cross-functionally to integrate components of proposals, synthesize content and deliver cohesive proposals that provide a compelling offering to potential clients.

This is a fast-paced, detail-oriented, and varied role that requires outstanding interpersonal and customer service skills, the drive to learn, and the ability to perform sales support responsibilities and thrive in a team environment.

Key Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Manage all aspects of day-to-day proposal development.
• Manage prioritization and timing of proposal development efforts in collaboration with business development and commercial team.
• Work closely and effectively communicate with other members of Business Development and collaboratively with internal cross-functional teams (i.e., Project Management, Process Development, GMP Operations, Quality, Finance) and senior leadership to create compelling proposals.
• Responsible for coordination with subject matter experts (SMEs) to obtain technical, budget and schedule information, writing and/or editing proposal language and pricing.
• Develop and maintain standardized tools to support Business Development, including proposal templates, libraries of standard proposal language and company offerings, databases of project, personnel, facility and other company information and establish processes for regular updates.
• Set-up and prepare responses to Requests for Information (RFIs), including coordination with SMEs/functional leads to prepare technical components of submissions.
• Support project change order development, including tracking and coordination with Project Management and SMEs in preparing scope and pricing.
• Research, write and edit information for written proposal response, creating customer ready proposals.
• Contribute to team and departmental initiatives outside of day-to-day proposal activities.

Skills & Abilities:

• Ability to be flexible, motivated, resourceful, and organized.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Advanced proficiency in MS Office suite (Word, Excel, Project and Power Point).
• Superior time management, organizational skills and accuracy; Detail-oriented and careful about quality of work.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and professional demeanor. Demonstrates ability to interact with and build relationships with a diverse range of people who possess a variety of skills, experience, and personalities at all levels of the organization.
• Proven ability to multi-task at a high level and the ability to prioritize and adapt to changing deadlines and needs. Ability to prioritize, including the ability to deliver client-ready materials under strict deadlines.
• Highly independent, self-starter with an ability to take input from all levels of the BD and Operations teams to create clear and effective proposals.
• Demonstrated professional writing, proofreading, and editing skills.
• Looks to continuously improve processes and how work is accomplished; takes a proactive approach to completing work tasks.

Education & Experience:

• Bachelor's degree (B.S./B.A.) in a scientific discipline, communications, business or related field.
• 8+ years of hands-on proposal development, writing and management experience.
• Experience working in biotech/pharma industry and/or contract manufacturing environment highly preferred
  
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