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Analyst - Pursuit Management

Maximus
  • Chicago, IL
  • Remote
  • Full-time
14 days ago

Job Description

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

- Support pursuit readiness activities before and after RFP release by maintaining schedules, trackers, and workstream coordination materials.
- Maintain workplans, action-item logs, decision trackers, milestone calendars, risk registers, and status reports for assigned workstreams.
- Track owner assignments, due dates, dependencies, open items, and follow-up actions to support schedule adherence.
- Monitor pursuit milestones, flag schedule risks, and escalate barriers requiring leadership attention.
- Coordinate questions, meetings, reminders, and follow-ups across writing, pricing, operations, sales, and proposal teams.
- Prepare concise status updates that summarize progress, upcoming deadlines, risks, decisions, and next steps.
- Use approved AI-enabled tools to help summarize updates, organize action items, streamline tracker maintenance, and improve follow-up efficiency.

Minimum Requirements

- Bachelor's degree in relevant field of study and 3+ years of relevant professional experience required, or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Program Requirements:

-Specialized experience needed: organizing and maintaining pursuit schedules, workplans, action-item logs, decision trackers, milestone calendars, risk registers, status reports, meeting notes, and follow-up materials.

-Candidates must demonstrate strong attention to detail, responsiveness, deadline discipline, and ability to coordinate across multiple contributors.

-Must be able to identify incomplete information, flag schedule risks, prepare concise updates, and use approved AI-enabled tools to support summarization, action organization, tracker maintenance, and follow-up efficiency.

-Strong Excel, Teams, SharePoint, and collaboration-tool skills preferred.

This position is fully remote and will require a home office.

Home office requirements:

Reliable high-speed internet service

Minimum 20 Mpbs download speeds/50 Mpbs for shared internet connectivity

Minimum 5 Mpbs upload speeds

EEO Statement

Maximus is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, genetic information and other legally protected characteristics.

Pay Transparency

Maximus compensation is based on various factors including but not limited to job location, a candidate's education, training, experience, expected quality and quantity of work, required travel (if any), external market and internal value analysis including seniority and merit systems, as well as internal pay alignment. Annual salary is just one component of Maximus's total compensation package. Other rewards may include short- and long-term incentives as well as program-specific awards. Additionally, Maximus provides a variety of benefits to employees, including health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, a retirement savings plan, paid holidays and paid time off. Compensation ranges may differ based on contract value but will be commensurate with job duties and relevant work experience. An applicant's salary history will not be used in determining compensation. Maximus will comply with regulatory minimum wage rates and exempt salary thresholds in all instances.

Accommodations
Maximus provides reasonable accommodations to individuals requiring assistance during any phase of the employment process due to a disability, medical condition, or physical or mental impairment. If you require assistance at any stage of the employment process-including accessing job postings, completing assessments, or participating in interviews,-please contact People Operations at applicantaccom@maximus.com.

Minimum Salary

$

75,000.00

Maximum Salary

$

100,000.00

Numbers & Facts

LocationChicago, IL (
Remote
)
Job TypeFull-time
IndustryHealthcare Services
Company Size5,000 to 9,999 employees
Websitehttps://www.maximus.com/

About Company

MAXIMUS provides business services to help governments operate health and human services programs, mostly at the state and national levels. The company's health services segment offers outsourced program management and administrative services,

Skills

  • Analysis Skillsunmatched
  • Artificial Intelligence (AI)unmatched
  • Broadbandunmatched
  • Detail Orientedunmatched
  • Internet/Online Serviceunmatched
  • Leadershipunmatched
  • Meeting Minutesunmatched
  • Microsoft Excelunmatched
  • Microsoft SharePointunmatched
  • Organizational Skillsunmatched
  • Plan Meetingsunmatched
  • Pricingunmatched
  • Request for Proposals (RFP)unmatched
  • Riskunmatched
  • Sales Proposalsunmatched
  • Status Reportsunmatched
  • Team Playerunmatched
  • Time Managementunmatched

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