Proposals Lead

BGC Engineering

$90K — $110K *
Business Services
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Communications, or a related field.
  • 10+ years of relevant experience in a professional services environment.
  • Strong organizational and project management skills.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills with exceptional attention to detail.
  • Experience in proposal coordination, management, or business development within engineering consulting.

Responsibilities

  • Develop and improve processes related to proposal examples, templates, and supporting materials.
  • Ensure proposal content is accurate, current, and well-organized for accessibility and reuse.
  • Support the creation of proposal standards, best practices, and review processes.
  • Monitor procurement platforms to facilitate Go/No-Go decision-making.
  • Summarize competitive intelligence to improve proposal strategies quarterly.
  • Serve as a central coordination point for proposal-related systems and information.
  • Promote a culture of continuous improvement and collaboration in proposal development.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive benefits package including health, dental, and vision coverage.
  • Paid Time Off for vacation, sick leave, and holidays.
  • Professional development and mentoring opportunities available.
  • Flat management structure supporting direct communication.
  • Flexible workplace arrangements with both office and home options.
Full Job Description
The Role

We are seeking a Proposals Lead to strengthen and coordinate the systems, resources, and processes that support our proposal submissions. This role will help ensure our proposal teams have the tools, information, examples, and coordination support they need to produce high-quality, competitive submissions. This is a full-time role suited to someone who is highly organized, collaborative, systems-minded, and comfortable working across technical, marketing, and business development teams.

This position can be based at one of our Canadian locations listed here.

Responsibilities

Proposal Content Management and Process Improvement
  • Develop and improve processes related to accessing and managing submitted proposal examples, templates, standard language, resumes, project descriptions, graphics, and supporting materials.
  • Ensure proposal content is accurate, current, well-organized, and easy for proposal teams to access and reuse.
  • Support the development of proposal standards, checklists, best practices, and review processes.
  • Develop and support training and onboarding for staff involved in proposal development.


Competitive and Market Intelligence
  • Monitor procurement platforms and work with BGC Sector and project teams to enable Go/No-Go decision-making.
  • Monitor competitive proposal award notices and outcomes, including maintaining intelligence on competitors, clients, selection criteria, pricing trends, and proposal strategies.
  • Summarize trends and insights quarterly to inform future pursuits and improve proposal competitiveness.


Cross-Functional Collaboration
  • Serve as a central point of coordination for proposal-related systems and information.
  • Work closely with project teams, Sector Leads, resource management, quality, contracts, IT, safety, marketing and communications staff, and senior management.
  • Help connect people and teams across BGC with relevant examples, resources, and expertise.
  • Promote a culture of continuous improvement, collaboration and knowledge sharing around proposals.


Required Education, Experience & Competencies
  • Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Communications, or a related field.
  • 10+ years of relevant experience in a professional services environment
  • Experience in proposal coordination, proposal management, business development or operations, preferably within engineering consulting
  • Strong organizational and project management skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills with exceptional attention to detail
  • Ability to work effectively with technical professionals and translate complex project information into clear, useful proposal content
  • Comfortable working independently while coordinating across many stakeholders


Desired Education, Experience & Competencies
  • Experience preparing or supporting proposals for private-sector, public-sector or multidisciplinary engineering consulting clients.
  • Familiarity with procurement processes, RFPs, RFQs, EOIs, and competitive selection processes.
  • Experience with Microsoft SharePoint, Teams, Excel, Co-Pilot and similar tools.
  • Experience with AI tools and applications support proposal development, content management, research, or process improvement.
  • Understanding of engineering, environmental, geotechnical, infrastructure, mining, or related consulting sectors.
  • Spanish and/or French language skills are considered an asset


Company Benefits

BGC offers our employees the following:
  • Our 'One Team' culture supporting health, wellness, safety and diversity
  • Comprehensive benefits package:
    • Health, Dental and Vision coverage
    • LTD, Life, AD&D and Business Travel Insurance
    • Employee Assistance Program
    • Paid Time Off: Vacation, Sick, Holidays
  • Parental leave top ups
  • Professional development and mentoring opportunities
  • Flat management structure
  • Flexible workplace with office and home arrangements
  • Social and wellness activities
  • Casual and professional work environment


Compensation

The estimated base salary range for this position is $90,000-$110,000 CAD per annum, however base pay will be commensurate with job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. BGC's compensation package also includes a discretionary bonus plan, training allowance, and comprehensive medical and dental plan.

(2) This is a newly created position, reflecting our continued growth and investment in expanding our capabilities.

(3) This posting will remain open until the position has been filled.

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