Proposal Developer - Gallagher Bassett : Job Details

Join our growing team of dedicated professionals at Gallagher Bassett, who guide those in need to the best possible outcomes for their health and wellbeing. You'll be part of a resilient team that works together to redefine the boundaries of excellence. At our organization, we value collaboration and making a positive impact in the lives of our clients and claimants, offering you the opportunity to join a team where your skills and dedication can truly make a difference. GUIDE. GUARD. GO BEYOND. We believe that every candidate brings something special to the table, including you! So, even if you feel that youre close but not an exact match, we encourage you to apply.

The Proposal Developer serves as a strategic contributor within Gallaghers GB Specialty team, responsible for driving new business opportunities and enhancing client retention through the creation of high-impact, client-focused sales and proposal materials. This role blends project management, creative storytelling, and business intelligence to support the development of RFP responses, new business presentations, stewardship reports, and critical sales communications.

Collaborating with cross-functional teams, this role drives new business revenue and enhances client retention by providing strategic consulting, creative solutions, and project management services for RFP responses, new business presentations, and key client communications. It supports Sales Teams in attracting and retaining sophisticated clients by ensuring all external sales materials align with Gallagher Bassetts professional quality standards and brand identity, while working with production teams to ensure materials are comprehensive and meet client deadlines. Additionally, it directs Gallaghers largest revenue-generating bidding and proposal projects, overseeing the entire process from opportunity generation to successful implementation, and is responsible for leading, planning, scheduling, and ensuring the timely development and delivery of high-quality responses to business opportunities, from pre-RFP to post-submission.

Key Responsibilities:

• Setting standards, defining processes, and staff training
• Addressing problems that cross organizational boundaries, manage the win rate, and ensure the win rate is continuously improving
• Managing the successful development and submission of proposals through effective collaboration across teams that include internal staff, corporate partners, consultants, and supporting vendors
• Leading and analyzing RFI, RFQ, RFPs and other bid documents for requirements
• Performing rigorous quality assurance checks on draft and final documents
• Insures the proposal schedule, outline, compliance matrix
• Proposal Development Plan while providing insight, leadership, and work guidance to authors on all proposal content.

Required:

• Bachelor's degree and 6 years related experience.
• In-depth knowledge of the insurance brokerage business.
• PMI certification (or similar) documenting experience in project management.
• Possess excellent leadership, communication, prioritization, and organizational skills.
• Understanding of managing and writing proposals.
• High proficiency in the MS Office Suite.

Desired:

• Prior exposure to Property & Casualty (P&C) insurance is strongly preferred
• Strong foundational understanding of proposal development.
• Experience with Salesforce, InDesign, database management systems.

Work Traits:

• Ability to see the big picture without overlooking the details.
• Demonstrates strong critical thinking and problem solving skills, ability to build strong business partner relationships.
• Self?motivated to achieving targets planning and results driven mind?set.

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On top of a competitive salary, great teams and exciting career opportunities, we also offer a wide range of benefits.

Below are the minimum core benefits youll get, depending on your job level these benefits may improve:

• Medical/dental/vision plans, which start from day one!
• Life and accident insurance
• 401(K) and Roth options
• Tax-advantaged accounts (HSA, FSA)
• Educational expense reimbursement
• Paid parental leave

Other benefits include:

• Digital mental health services (Talkspace)
• Flexible work hours (availability varies by office and job function)
• Training programs
• Gallagher Thrive program elevating your health through challenges, workshops and digital fitness programs for your overall wellbeing
• Charitable matching gift program
• And more...

We value inclusion and diversity

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Inclusion and diversity (I&D) is a core part of our business, and its embedded into the fabric of our organization. For more than 95 years, Gallagher has led with a commitment to sustainability and to support the communities where we live and work.

Gallagher embraces our employees diverse identities, experiences and talents, allowing us to better serve our clients and communities. We see inclusion as a conscious commitment and diversity as a vital strength. By embracing diversity in all its forms, we live out The Gallagher Way to its fullest.

Gallagher believes that all persons are entitled to equal employment opportunity and prohibits any form of discrimination by its managers, employees, vendors or customers based on race, color, religion, creed, gender (including pregnancy status), sexual orientation, gender identity (which includes transgender and other gender non-conforming individuals), gender expression, hair expression, marital status, parental status, age, national origin, ancestry, disability, medical condition, genetic information, veteran or military status, citizenship status, or any other characteristic protected (herein referred to as protected characteristics) by applicable federal, state, or local laws.

Equal employment opportunity will be extended in all aspects of the employer-employee relationship, including, but not limited to, recruitment, hiring, training, promotion, transfer, demotion, compensation, benefits, layoff, and termination. In addition, Gallagher will make reasonable accommodations to known physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified person with a disability, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business.