Senior Technical Proposal Writer

🕒 August 31

🌲 North Carolina, Pennsylvania – Remote

🌲 North Carolina – Remote 🔔 Pennsylvania – Remote

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Thermo Fisher Scientific

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1956

🏥 Healthcare

📦 Logistics

🏭 Manufacturing

Healthcare • Logistics • Manufacturing

Thermo Fisher Scientific is the world leader in serving science, with annual revenue of more than $40 billion. Their mission is to enable customers to make the world healthier, cleaner, and safer by supporting life sciences research, solving complex analytical challenges, increasing laboratory productivity, and improving patient health through diagnostics and the development of life-changing therapies. With a global team, they offer innovative technologies and pharmaceutical services through brands such as Thermo Scientific, Applied Biosystems, Invitrogen, Fisher Scientific, Unity Lab Services, Patheon, and PPD.

📋 Description

• Lead development and writing of technical narratives for complex U.S. Government proposals and federal acquisition documents • Review solicitations, amendments, SOWs/PWSs, technical requirements, instructions, and evaluation criteria • Develop evaluator-focused narratives covering understanding, technical and management approaches, capabilities, experience, risks, and differentiators • Tailor scientific and technical content for NIH, HHS, DoD/DoW, and other federal reviewers • Integrate technical, operational, management, quality, transition, staffing, risk, and past-performance information • Lead interviews and working sessions with scientific, technical, operational, quality, and program SMEs • Research technical areas and draft substantive content for SME review • Identify information gaps, inconsistencies, unsupported claims, and required SME input • Develop proposal messaging, win themes, discriminators, proof points, and technical positioning • Support Pink Team, Red Team, Gold Team, and final compliance reviews • Conduct federal customer, competitor, acquisition, contract vehicle, procurement trend, and agency-priority research • Develop competitor profiles, customer intelligence summaries, market analyses, and opportunity-specific research • Use approved generative AI and digital tools for solicitation analysis, research, drafting, editing, compliance, and knowledge management • Validate AI-generated content for accuracy, technical validity, compliance, bias, source reliability, and information security • Develop compliance matrices and maintain traceability between requirements, criteria, and responses • Apply solicitation-specific formatting and perform document quality-control reviews • Perform or coordinate Section 508 accessibility reviews and remediation • Maintain version control and coordinate submission-ready Microsoft Word and PDF documents • Maintain proposal templates, reusable content, technical libraries, databases, lessons learned, and knowledge-management resources • Operate independently on complex assignments with limited direction • Establish writing standards, terminology, narrative structure, and document consistency • Coach SMEs and proposal contributors and review other writers' content • Manage multiple assignments and shifting priorities while meeting submission deadlines

🎯 Requirements

• Advanced technical writing, proposal writing, editing, analytical, and information-synthesis skills • Demonstrated experience developing complex technical proposals for U.S. Government customers • Understanding of federal solicitation structures, proposal instructions, evaluation criteria, SOWs/PWSs, compliance requirements, and competitive proposal-development processes • Ability to communicate technical narratives to scientific, technical, operational, acquisition, and program-management evaluators • Ability to understand complex scientific or technical subject matter and develop accurate initial written content • Ability to interview SMEs, identify content gaps, and convert technical discussions into proposal-ready narratives • Ability to analyze solicitation requirements and maintain traceability • Experience conducting competitor, customer, and federal market research • Knowledge of federal acquisition and Government contracting environments • Knowledge of relevant life-sciences services and scientific operations • Proficiency with Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, SharePoint, Outlook, Teams, Adobe Acrobat, and related proposal technologies • Experience formatting complex technical documents and producing submission-ready files • Knowledge of Section 508 accessibility requirements and experience performing accessibility reviews and remediation • Proficiency using generative AI and AI-enabled tools, including validating outputs and protecting controlled or proprietary information • Ability to manage multiple priorities and meet fixed Government submission deadlines • Ability to work effectively across Contracts, Business Development, Operations, Quality, Finance, scientific, technical, and executive teams • Bachelor's degree in science, life sciences, engineering, technical communications, English, journalism, communications, or related field required • 7+ years of technical writing, proposal writing, federal business development, or related experience • Significant experience developing proposals for U.S. Government customers • Demonstrated experience developing complex federal technical proposals as a primary writer or senior proposal contributor • Fluent written and spoken English required

🏖️ Benefits

• Fully remote work arrangement • Flexible work hours during active proposal periods • Functional leadership, writing direction, peer review, mentoring, and guidance opportunities