Proposal Development Manager

At U.S. Bank, we’re on a journey to do our best. Helping the customers and businesses we serve to make better and smarter financial decisions and enabling the communities we support to grow and succeed.  We believe it takes all of us to bring our shared ambition to life, and each person is unique in their potential. A career with U.S. Bank gives you a wide, ever-growing range of opportunities to discover what makes you thrive at every stage of your career. Try new things, learn new skills and discover what you excel at—all from Day One. Job Description Proposal Development Manager Position Summary The Proposal Development Manager is responsible for leading the day-to-day activities and performance of the proposal development team, ensuring resources are effectively aligned to business needs and proposal assignments are delivered with consistent quality, accuracy, and timeliness. This role directly manages and develops proposal professionals, oversees workload and assignment distribution, monitors proposal schedules and deadlines, and provides hands-on guidance to resolve delivery challenges and maintain quality standards. The manager serves as the primary point of coordination for the proposal development team, balancing capacity, priorities, complexity, and development needs across assignments. In addition to people leadership, this role provides strategic, writing, and editorial leadership for complex or high-priority opportunities and helps ensure proposals are developed through a disciplined, collaborative process. Deliverables must be client-focused, persuasive, compliant, and aligned with established proposal strategy, processes, and standards. Key Responsibilities Proposal Development Team Leadership • Directly manage, coach, and develop proposal writers. • Establish clear expectations for writing quality, project execution, collaboration, responsiveness, and deadline management. • Provide ongoing coaching, feedback, mentoring, and writing guidance. • Identify individual and team development needs and help build proposal writing capabilities. • Support onboarding and training of new proposal writers. • Build greater consistency across the team in writing quality, client-centric messaging, executive communication, and proposal execution. Day-to-Day Workload & Assignment Management • Manage daily proposal writer assignments and workload across the team. • Assess capacity, proposal complexity, deadlines, and writer capabilities when assigning work. • Monitor workloads and rebalance assignments when priorities or capacity change. • Maintain visibility into upcoming deadlines, resource constraints, competing priorities, and delivery risks. • Serve as the first point of escalation for writer capacity or delivery challenges. • Coordinate coverage for planned and unplanned absences. • Escalate significant capacity, prioritization, or delivery risks to the Head of Proposal Strategy & Management. End-to-End Proposal Development Oversight • Provide oversight across the portfolio of active proposal development assignments, from kickoff and strategy alignment through content development, review, and submission. • Monitor progress against key milestones, content deadlines, review cycles, pens-down dates, and submission requirements. • Help writers resolve obstacles that could affect quality or delivery. • Reinforce accountability for established proposal processes and deadlines. • Ensure appropriate escalation when contributors or stakeholders miss critical deadlines. • Provide hands-on support for complex, high-value, or time-sensitive assignments when needed. Writing & Quality Leadership • Serve as the proposal development, writing, and editorial leader for the team. • Review and strengthen executive summaries, strategic narratives,