Sr. Proposal Writer
Who We Are:
NFP, an Aon company, is a multiple Best Places to Work award winner in Business Insurance. We are an organization of consultative advisors and problem solvers. We help companies and individuals around the globe address their most significant risk, workforce, wealth management, and retirement challenges through custom solutions and a people-first approach. To learn more, please visit: https://www.NFP.com.
About the Role
We are thrilled to announce an exciting opportunity for a Senior Proposal Writer to join our RFP and Proposal Management Office. This is an outstanding chance to be part of a team that builds NFP’s future through strategic, persuasive, and flawless proposal responses. If you are passionate about translating business and technical information into clear, compelling content, we want to hear from you!
Key Responsibilities
- Develop compelling, client-focused content that communicates NFP’s value proposition, experience, capabilities, and competitive differentiators.
- Analyze solicitation requirements and transform them into responsive, accurate, and persuasive proposal content.
- Partner with proposal managers, sales leaders, subject matter experts, compliance, legal, and other interested parties to prepare and confirm content.
- Provide strategic editorial direction related to messaging, structure, tone, consistency, and readability.
- Review complete proposal drafts for compliance, responsiveness, accuracy, completeness, grammar, and formatting.
- Identify content gaps, risks, inconsistencies, and opportunities to improve the overall response.
- Lead conversations and interviews on content creation with subject matter experts.
- Adapt technical or complex information for client and prospect audiences.
- Develop executive summaries, cover letters, case studies, qualifications narratives, and other high-impact proposal content.
- Mentor and provide constructive feedback to proposal writers and other contributors.
- Maintain and improve the proposal content library by updating materials, removing redundancies, and identifying reusable high-quality content.
- Maintain strong knowledge of NFP’s services, solutions, markets, competitors, and business priorities.
- Support special projects, training initiatives, and other responsibilities as assigned.
- Travel as required.
Qualifications
- Outstanding writing, editing, proofreading, and reading-comprehension skills.
- Proven ability to develop clear, persuasive, client-focused content for complex proposal responses.
- Extensive experience addressing formal RFIs, RFQs, and RFPs, including familiarity with compliance, legal, and submission requirements.
- Ability to work independently, exercise good judgment, and manage multiple concurrent deadlines.
- Experience providing editorial guidance, peer review, coaching, or mentoring.
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Teams, OneNote, and SharePoint.
- Experience with proposal management or content-library platforms preferred.
- Bachelor’s degree required; degree in business, communications, English, journalism, marketing, or a related field preferred.
- Minimum 5–7 years of progressively responsible RFP and proposal-writing experience.
What We Offer:
We're proud to offer a competitive salary, PTO & paid holidays, 401(k) with match, exclusive discount programs, health & wellness programs, and more. Our PeopleFirst culture focuses on building and nurturing lifelong relationships with our employees because, at the end of the day, we exist to be there for others. The base salary range for this position is $65,400 – $80,500. The base salary offered will be determined by factors including, but not limited to, experience, credentials, education, certifications, skill level required for the position, the scope of the position, and geographic location. Actual base salary offered will be determined on a case-by-case basis. In addition to the base salary, this position may be eligible for performance-based incentives.
NFP and You... Better Together!
NFP is an inclusive Equal Employment Opportunity employer.
#LI-REMOTE
Bachelor's degree required; 5-7 years RFP/proposal writing experience; advanced Microsoft Office skills; outstanding writing and editing; ability to manage multiple deadlines; travel as required.
Key Responsibilities
- developing proposal content
- analyzing solicitation requirements
- reviewing proposal drafts
Skills & Tools
Microsoft Word, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft OneNote, Microsoft SharePoint
Job Details
- Category: Marketing
- Seniority: Senior Level
- Commitment: Full Time
- Workplace: Remote — Texas, United States
- Salary: USD 65,400 – 80,500 / year
- Languages: English
Benefits
- 401k matching
- Generous paid time off
- Retirement plan
About NFP Corp
A consultative advisory firm helping companies and individuals address risk, workforce, wealth management, and retirement challenges. — Industry: Finance