Proposal Manager

Location: Sydney

Contract Type: Fixed Term

MinterEllison is one of Australia’s largest independent law and consulting firms. With a heritage of almost 200 years, we are known for our excellence, and our authentic and enduring relationships with our clients, our people and our communities.

MinterEllison helps our clients to solve complex problems every day. We do this by our full-service legal offering and complementary advisory offering, MinterEllison Consulting, where clients seek out our industry-informed independent advisors who understand where strategy meets risk, and how to unlock opportunities.

We offer opportunities to work on industry-leading mandates for top-tier clients, while being part of a high-performing and collaborative team that values excellence, diversity of thought, curiosity, and inclusion. We value our people and empower them to achieve their ambitions - with the support, trust and autonomy to grow their careers in meaningful ways.

At MinterEllison, we're leading the way with AI and other emerging technologies, powering innovation right across our firm. You will have the opportunity to engage with AI tools we've built, and other external AI tools, to enhance efficiencies and excellence internally and with our clients.

We support sustainable ways of working regarding how, when and where you work and offer a wide range of social, financial and health benefits (see www.minterellison.com/-/media//Minter-Ellison/Files/Careers/MinterEllison-Employee-Benefits-2025.ashx)

Our Business Development team

MinterEllison's national Client & Market Growth team is a high performing engine for client centric growth. Essential to the firm's success, the Client & Market Growth team delivers the full spectrum of strategic business development and marketing services ensuring the firm builds and develops strong relationships with both new and existing clients.

The Major Proposals team creates and delivers significant proposals for panel and project opportunities, working closely with the BD team from proposal creation through submission.

Your role

An opportunity has opened in the Business Development team for a Proposal Manager on a 12-month fixed-term contract to cover a parental leave position. This role will work as part of a talented team of proposal specialists. It is a great opportunity for someone who is looking to accelerate their career in proposal management with an enthusiastic and highly skilled team.

You will gain exposure to multiple practice areas and partner with leading business development and legal experts to develop tailored proposals for high profile projects and clients.

Your responsibilities:

• Deliver high quality proposals for many of the firms most important and strategic clients
• contribute to maintaining an exceptional level of performance in major proposal delivery, supporting the team's reputation as leading proposal specialists
• Provide end-to-end project management for significant proposals (ASX, priority industry and Government clients)
• Build relationships between major proposals, BD and other firm areas
• contribute to team initiatives including content management and proposal automation, opportunity reporting and training activities to upskill the firm in best practice methodologies.

What You Need

We are looking for an enthusiastic and resourceful professional with

• Tertiary qualification in Communications, Business, Commerce, Law or relevant Arts degree
• minimum 5 years direct proposal, tenders and bids experience, preferably within a legal or consulting environment
• Strong collaborative and stakeholder engagement skills
• demonstrated experience value selling and managing proposals for government/public sector and ASX clients (law firm experience highly regarded)
• Strong workflow prioritisation and deadline management skills
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, Microsoft suite experience preferred
• Creative thinking and project delivery capability
• Strong client service focus and client-focused writing skills
• ambition to achieve results and contribute to the success of our business
• resilience and a commitment to excellence that matches our own
• pride in your work, your team and who you work for.

How to apply

We encourage applications from people of all ages, abilities, cultural backgrounds, genders (including trans or gender diverse), LGBTQ+ people and those with carer responsibilities. We particularly encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to apply.

We prefer to connect with people directly, so please submit your CV by clicking on the 'Apply' button. We encourage all applications, including if you do not meet all the criteria listed for the role. Your application will also enable us to consider you for other opportunities that may be available at MinterEllison.

If you are currently a MinterEllison employee, please apply through the internal careers page.

If you would like further information, require any adjustments throughout the recruitment process or for a confidential discussion, please contact Danielle.Miller@minterellison.com.