Scholastic
Manager, RFP Process
🇺🇸 Remote - US
🕑 Full-Time
💰 $82K - $92K
💻 Project Management
🗓️ August 21st, 2025
Edtech.com's Summary
Scholastic is hiring a Manager, RFP Process to manage the end-to-end bid process for Scholastic Education products and services. The role involves writing and organizing RFP content, coordinating with stakeholders, maintaining electronic folders, and supporting special projects to ensure timely and competitive submissions.
Highlights
- Write and organize content for RFPs including narratives, charts, and summary documents.
- Maintain RFP electronic folders with product info, graphics, pricing, and correlations.
- Create bid process checklists, review summaries, and response templates to ensure thorough submissions.
- Coordinate with Field Sales, Finance, Legal, and Logistics teams for product identification and pricing.
- Support business development opportunities and align company resources with Senior RFP Manager.
- Manage multiple competing deadlines and detailed writing accuracy in technical or grant writing.
- Require 8 years of relevant writing experience and a Bachelor's degree; education industry knowledge preferred.
- Proficiency in organizing complex business documents and excellent communication and planning skills.
- Annual salary range from $82,000 to $92,000.
- Serve as a key contributor to cross-departmental collaboration in Sales and Education divisions.
Manager, RFP Process Full Description
Manager, RFP Process
New York - Remote
Full time
Job Description:
THE OPPORTUNITY
The RFP Writer will be responsible for providing RFP functions in the Scholastic Education Division. The person will be responsible for essential tasks in creating competitive bids for Scholastic Education products and services. This person shall be cross-trained in all functions and be a strong contributor to the entire bid process from solicitation through bid award lifecycle. The RFP Writer shall be responsible for maintaining the RFP electronic folders to maximize efficiency, creating documents that support the timely submission of bids, generating reports to show bid trends and effectiveness, and completing special projects as assigned to include supporting the RFP Team’s operational duties, as needed. Strong writing and verbal presentation skills, ability to manage multiple projects and meet competing deadlines, hyperattention to details and accuracy are high priorities. Experience with Educational Products for PreK-12 a plus.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Write content for RFPs and/or Business Development opportuniites as needed and assigned, including narratives, alignment charts, LOI/LOA/RFI/RFQ,etc, summary documents, responses to state HQIR, and other text conforming to the specific needs of the RFP and customer needs.
- Write bid boilerplates, which can be used for cutting and pasting information or as a ready-made part of a bid response
- Collect information and add it to the RFP electronic folders, such as written product information, graphics of product components, logos, workshop descriptions, pricing, state correlations, etc.
- Suggest ways to make processes more efficient
- Organize Bid Process, which starts the bid response
- Create RFP Initial Review Summary Grids that are emailed to stakeholders
- Write stakeholder call summaries to send to team, noting decisions made and follow up needed
- Design bid submissions and create Checklists of tasks and due dates required to complete the bid on time
- Create bid response templates, which are used to write the bid response completely and uniformly
- Perform other duties as assigned to fulfill special requests or the smooth operation of the RFP Department, such as, but not limited to:
o Researching information about agencies, funding, RFPs, or Scholastic programs and services
o Creating PowerPoints or other materials for in-house training or training freelancers
o Working with freelancers during peak bid-writing times
o Writing custom documents as needed
- Act as primary contact with Field Sales Team, Finance, Legal and Logistics to identify product identification, availability, pricing submittal and terms
- Support the scouting of business development opportunities and work closely with the Senior RFP Manager to align company resources
About Scholastic
For more than 100 years, Scholastic Corporation (NASDAQ: SCHL) has been meeting children where they are – at school, at home and in their communities – by creating quality content and experiences, all beginning with literacy. Scholastic delivers stories, characters, and learning moments that empower all kids to become lifelong readers and learners through bestselling children’s books, literacy- and knowledge-building resources for schools including classroom magazines, and award-winning, entertaining children's media. As the world's largest publisher and distributor of children's books through school-based book clubs and book fairs, classroom libraries, school and public libraries, retail, and online, and with a global reach into more than 135 countries, Scholastic encourages the personal and intellectual growth of all children, while nurturing a lifelong relationship with reading, themselves, and the world around them. Learn more at www.scholastic.com.
Some benefits that we offer:
- Full suite of health and wellness benefits (including a $0 deductible Medical Plan)
- Retirement Savings Plan 401(k) with options for both Roth and Traditional Contributions
- Tuition-Free programs for undergraduate and graduate degrees
- Generous Parental Leave Program
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) with opportunity for discounted stock at a 15% discount
Thank you for your consideration in choosing Scholastic.
Qualifications
HOW YOU CAN FIT (Qualifications)
- Bachelor's degree required\
- 8 years’ of experience in technical or grant writing.
- Must be very detail-oriented with a high degree of writing accuracy
- For-profit writing experience is a plus; education industry knowledge is a preferred.
- Must be flexible in accepting assignments and meeting deadlines
- Must be both analytical and a creative problem solver. Must be able to work independently, with team and cross-departmental colleagues, to attain organizational goals.
- Excellent communication skills, organizational planning and writing skills
- Ability to learn new educational products and their features and benefits; as well as, write to their strengths.
- Willingness to work in aa fast-paced environment
- An interest in ensuring accuracy, clarity and quality of work
Time Type:
Full time
Job Type:
Regular
Job Family Group:
Sales
Location Region/State:
New York
Compensation Range:
Annual Salary: 82,000.00 - 92,000.00
EEO Statement:
Scholastic is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Our policy is clear: there shall be no discrimination on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, pregnancy, national origin, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, or status as a disabled veteran or Vietnam veteran. Those factors shall not influence the determination of qualifications for a job or other opportunity within the company. Further, all personnel actions (such as compensation, tuition aid, benefits, transfers, promotions, and dismissals, company-sponsored training, social and recreational programs) shall be administered without discrimination.
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