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Department OverviewMotorola Solutions is a Fortune 500 organization which is consistently awarded as one of the “World's Most Admired Companies”. The Company helps government, public safety and commercial customers improve their operations with solutions and services to increase the effectiveness, efficiency, and safety of their workforce. Delivering more than 2,500 customer-focused proposals annually, ranging in length from a few pages to multiple volumes, the Proposal Solutions Organization provides proposal management, writing, and multimedia services to Motorola Solutions’ Sales teams.
Job Description
- Ensure adherence to NAPC proposal templates, processes, and tools, ensuring the highest quality proposal responses
- Manage the proposal governance and status process, format and finalizing the document(s), and submit them to sales
- May assist in the development of strategies and approaches designed to enhance business opportunities
- This position is an entry level NAPC role designed to introduce the candidate to Motorola Solutions and the department, corporate goals, and proposal standards and ethics, to position themself to grow their skillsets in proposal complexity.
Scope of Responsibilities/Expectations:
- Will learn proposal templates, processes, tools, and quality standards supporting primarily Sole-Source (non-solicited) bid responses
- Leads and/or plays an active role in creating quality proposals in partnership with Sales, Pre-Sales, and SMEs. “Quality Proposal” equates to proposals that meet or exceed guidelines for providing a clear, responsive, persuasive, and compelling documents to the end customer
- Assists with proposal status calls, peer and management reviews
- Prepares for meetings, maintains notes, and ensures roles/responsibilities are communicated internally
- Develops and disseminates proposal schedules and where applicable any compliance matrices
- Participates in Executive Summary development and/or media storyboarding
- Manages draft proposal documents, file sharing, and version control
- Desktop publishes proposals adhering to formatting and layout guidelines
- Coordinates with approved vendor when hard copy responses are needed
- Assists with authorized signatories when necessary
- Ensures on-time delivery/submission
- Closes out the project in CRM, archives proposals and project files according to established procedures
- Solicits and reviews survey feedback from internal and external customers
- Other related tasks as assigned by management
Specific Knowledge/Skills:
- Good written and verbal communication skills
- Tools/Technologies: Microsoft Office Suite, Google Suite, Adobe Acrobat, Salesforce
- Preferred: Experience coordinating with groups both in person and remotely, and independently managing projects
- Abilities: Must be able to schedule and direct the activities of proposal contributors, develop proposal outlines, assist with large kick-off or status meetings, and concurrently manage multiple projects with tight deadlines
Target Base Salary Range: $60,000 - $65,000 USD
Consistent with Motorola Solutions values and applicable law, we provide the following information to promote pay transparency and equity. Pay within this range varies and depends on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The actual offer will be based on the individual candidate.
Accepting applications between August 2025 and November 2025
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Basic Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree
- OR 2+ years of proposal or proposal related experience
Travel RequirementsNone
Relocation ProvidedNone
Position TypeExperienced
Referral Payment PlanNo
Our U.S. Benefits include:
- Incentive Bonus Plans
- Medical, Dental, Vision benefits
- 401K
- 10 Paid Holidays
- Generous Paid Time Off Packages
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Paid Parental & Family Leave
- and more!
EEO Statement
Motorola Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other legally-protected characteristic.
We are proud of our people-first and community-focused culture, empowering every Motorolan to be their most authentic self and to do their best work to deliver on the promise of a safer world. If you’d like to join our team but feel that you don’t quite meet all of the preferred skills, we’d still love to hear why you think you’d be a great addition to our team.
We’re committed to providing an inclusive and accessible recruiting experience for candidates with disabilities, or other physical or mental health conditions. To request an accommodation, please complete this Reasonable Accommodations Form so we can assist you.
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Motorola Solutions Somerville, Massachusetts, USA Office
450 Artisan Way, #200, Somerville, MA, United States, 02145
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