• Job Description

  Req#: 3976200
  Job Type
  
  Full-time
  
  Description
  
  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 nationwide 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:
  
  • Develop 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; perform 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
  • Develop 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 handoff of the budget proposal to the project-execution team
  • Establish and maintain a structured process to analyze LOE-to-actual variance, identify trends, develop standardized forecasting tools, and recommend adjustments to improve accuracy of estimates
  
  
  Requirements
  
  
  • Bachelor's degree in finance, business, accounting, economics, or related 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 Excel 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 rate 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. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, 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.
  
  
  Salary Description
  
  $90,000 - $110,000

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