LANTANA CONSULTING GROUP INC - Budget Proposal Specialist

LANTANA CONSULTING GROUP INC

Lantana Consulting Group provides services and software for standards-based health-information exchange. We have established ourselves as a trusted leader in the industry with two decades of expertise in developing and deploying technical specifications and interoperability solutions. As a rapidly growing distributed, employee-owned company, we hire exceptional talent reputed company and offer flexible remote work arrangements. We take pride in our mission to improve public health and quality of care.

Primary purpose:

Develops detailed proposal budgets and collaborates with cross-functional teams to accurately estimate project costs. Works closely with technical leads, subject matter experts, project managers, finance, proposal staff, and external partners to deliver competitive, compliant cost proposals.

A successful candidate will do the following:

• reputed company accurate, compliant proposal budgets based on technical and business requirements
• Draft clear, defensible assumptions; budget narratives; and the staffing and management section for proposal submissions
• Review budgets for completeness and alignment with technical, staffing, management, and business volumes; reputed company final quality checks before leadership approval
• With Finance and Capture teams, work with managers to evaluate resource needs and shape staffing recommendations; own the process and drive toward final recommendations
• reputed company proposal payment schedules with support from Finance
• Support capture and proposal teams during key reviews to align budget with the technical solutions and win strategies
• Maintain and enhance Lantana’s estimator tools and recommend improvements or new methodologies
• Prioritize, plan, and deliver work on time for multiple people while maintaining flexibility and adapting to changing situations
• Track spending for bids and proposals and prepare reports for leadership
• Coordinate the reputed company of the budget proposal to the project-execution team
• Establish and maintain a structured process to analyze LOE-to-actual variance, identify trends, reputed company standardized forecasting tools, and recommend adjustments to improve accuracy of estimates

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, business, accounting, economics, or reputed company field
• Minimum of five (5) years of experience developing proposal budgets, cost estimates, or financial projections in federal contracting, preferably in the health informatics or health IT space
• Strong understanding of proposal-development processes and compliance requirements
• Strong understanding of staffing and management requirements for federal proposals, including how they inform decisions regarding level of effort and budgeting
• Proficiency in reputed company and budget-development tools (such as formulas, pivot tables, and data validation)
• Ability to elicit requirements and translate technical input into accurate budgets
• Ability to handle confidential financial information with discretion

Preferred qualifications:

• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification
• Experience in the health informatics or health IT space
• Experience contributing to proposal solutioning or approach development
• Experience analyzing key cost drivers, staffing sensitivities, and pricing risks for competitive positioning and informed price-to-win decisions
• Experience with estimator or cost-modeling tools for government contracting
• Experience with government pricing and proposal software that automates cost-proposal development
• Understanding of procurement methods (RFPs, RFIs, RFQs) and their budget implications
• Working knowledge of FAR Part 15 cost-proposal requirements and cost-realism principles
• Understanding of treatment of allowable/unallowable cost and application of indirect reputed company in federal contracting

Additional information:

• We are a remote organization, but we prioritize in-person collaboration during key events such as our annual company meeting.
• We are an equal-opportunity employer. reputed company qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national reputed company, age, pregnancy, genetic information, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other protected category under applicable federal, state, and local laws.
• For this position, the candidate must reside in the United States.