Public Sector Pre-Sales Senior Manager / Client Director

R Systems is a global firm with offices in 16 countries. We are expanding our Public Sector Practice in Sacramento, CA and we are seeking a dynamic, growth-oriented, and results-driven Leader. You will lead project delivery for about 50% of the time and lead pre-sales other 50% of the time. As part of our Public Sector Team, you will be charged with responding to medium to large solicitations with difficult qualifications prescribed by our State Government clients. You will be responsible for drawing upon company-wide resources, tools, and extended leadership to deliver proposal responses on time. Your creativity, technical depth and writing skills will be required to develop solutions/ technical approach to deliver Statement of Work (SOW) from RFPs and RFOs. Your interpersonal skills allow you to develop lasting relationships with both proposed candidates, client managers and partnering firms. You will also engage in pre-RFP work by reviewing government budgets, strategic plans, upcoming procurements, and market research conducted by agencies and departments. Your client delivery will require regular interaction with current clients to ensure contract completion and associated and change requests, engagement management on deliverable-based contracts, resource coaching on staff-augmentation contracts, and other client needs.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in IT, Computer Science or MIS
• 15 years overall experience in Information Technology consulting. Must have begun career in development roles and transitioned to managerial roles.
• 12 years of experience in Pre-sales, and leading solicitations in technical and management consulting areas exclusively in the State of California in public sector practice of an established firm.
• 10 years of IT Project Delivery experience in variety of roles including hands-on development, project management and engagement management
• 8 years of Experience in technical writing for proposal responses including technical solutions, approach, cover page, executive summary and skills summaries of resources.
• Experience building and developing relationships with vendors and clients in a highly competitive business environment.
• Experience advising client leaders on technology, implementations, and management of the full lifecycle of large-scale implementations.
• Experience, knowledge, and extensive network of candidates, vendors, state executives, etc. in local Sacramento market within State government departments.
• Technically savvy with expertise in at least 3 of the following areas with. – Cloud Migration, SaaS Implementations, Systems Integration with COTS, Custom and ERP, Data Warehousing and Analytics, .NET and Java Development, Mobile, Data Center Operations, Architecture and Infrastructure, etc

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience building partnerships and effectively influencing clients, internal leaders and executive stakeholders through data analysis and qualitative insights.
• Experience in project management or other leadership roles, while working collaboratively/proactively in a diverse team environment.
• Experience solving complex problems, designing creative strategies, and delivering significant impact in a leadership role.
• Ability to collaborate effectively within the team and across groups and influence/partner across a wide variety of levels, functions, and geographies.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, written, and verbal communication skills with excellent business judgment and attention to detail.
• Interest in contributing to the Pre-sales team’s development of tools, databases, and referrals.
• Adept in technical writing in variety of forms including white papers, diagrams, flow-charts, presentations, charts, dashboards, etc.

Responsibilities

• Manage current clients and billable resources for ensuring smooth delivery of all projects. Guarantee client satisfaction with regular check-ins
• Lead the Capture/Pre-RFP activity of strategic and tactical leads/opportunities and provide partnerships to internal R Systems leadership team.
• Lead complex, large, high-speed and most-cost effective RFP responses as a Proposal Manager including proposal planning, story boarding, sourcing, developing approach, conducting pink/red team reviews and production.
• Manage an offshore team of pre-sales and develop an inclusive, high-performance team and culture of winning that will double RFP selection/win rate.
• Successfully run fast-turn around searches for resources usually within a week of RFP/Solicitation release when internal candidates are not available.
• Lead the technical writing from story boarding/concept phase to final approval after review and revise cycles. This includes a technical approach responding to Statement of Work from RFP, and many other areas.
• Negotiate the best rate or salary with candidates confirming to the rate-cards available within the Master Services Agreements.
• Partner with the vendors, suppliers, staffing firms, team partners and other resources to identify, engage, evaluate, and recruit candidates for proposal submissions.
• Review leads/pipeline for identifying high-probability opportunities for Capture and pre-RFP campaign. Lead Capture work for 2-3 opportunities every quarter.

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