Executive Project Manager   Employer: The Mistral Group Job Location: Bethesda , MD Cash Compensation: Industry Type: Related Professions Job Description: About the Opportunity The Company leverages the skills and experience of all employees.​ Everyone here wears many hats and gets exposed to a variety of challenges.​ You'll be working with a visible and accessible Executive Management team.​ The person in this position will report directly to the President and work closely with the Executive Management team.​ The EPM must be able to function in a fast paced, success-oriented environment with minimal supervision.​ The EPM will also have high interaction with clients; therefore, the ability to provide good client service is a requirement.​ The successful candidate will be an independent thinker who is well organized, self-directed and able to prioritize multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment.​ The candidate must be mature, flexible, detail-oriented, bright, articulate and hold the highest ethical and professional standards.​ The candidate must possess a valid driver’s license and reliable car.​ This position requires flexibility with work schedule around President’s schedule including some 10-hour days, at times with little notice, and occasional weekend work.​ BA/​BS or equivalent experience.​ Background in Defense contracting and/​or business field a plus! Proposal Writing The selected candidate will support the development, writing, and editing of a variety of materials for proposals concerned with management and technical offerings.​ Develop in depth interview and survey techniques for gathering substantive input from Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) relevant to specific management and technical disciplines.​ Responsibilities: * Employ motivational techniques to conduct interviews and surveys with SMEs in sufficient detail to develop selling and compelling management and technical offerings relevant to RFP requirements.​ * Organize material and write proposal inputs to meet RFP requirements and specifications regarding order, clarity, conciseness, style and terminology.​ * Edit material for structure, completeness, accuracy, organization consistency, and appropriateness of content.​ Recommend changes in scope, format and content, restructuring, and rewriting as required.​ * Tailor standardized offerings as needed to meet customer requirements.​ Create, modify, or edit visual materials such as photographs, drawings, sketches, diagrams, or charts to illustrate offering.​ * As required, review work of other writers and graphics and production personnel to ensure technical accuracy, clarity, and quality.​ * Develop and maintain close liaison with SMEs to ensure their engagement and review throughout the proposal development process.​ * Serve as a proposal section or volume lead.​ Project /​Practice Management * Creates and executes project work plans and revises as appropriate to meet changing needs and requirements.​ * Identifies resources needed and assigns individual responsibilities.​ * Manages day-to-day operational aspects of a project and scope.​ * Reviews deliverables prepared by team before passing to client.​ * Effectively applies our methodology and enforces project standards.​ * Prepares for engagement reviews and quality assurance procedures.​ * Minimizes our exposure and risk on project.​ * Ensures project documents are complete, current, and stored appropriately.​ Project Communication * Facilitates team and client meetings effectively.​ * Holds regular status meetings with project team.​ * Keeps project team well informed of changes within the organization and general corporate news.​ * Effectively communicates relevant project information to superiors.​ * Delivers engaging, informative, well-organized presentations.​ * Resolves and/​or escalates issues in a timely fashion.​ * Understands how to communicate difficult/​sensitive information tactfully.​ Project Accounting * Tracks and reports team hours and expenses on a weekly basis.​ * Manages project budget.​ * Determines appropriate revenue recognition, ensures timely and accurate invoicing, and monitors receivables for project.​ * Follows up with clients, when necessary, regarding unpaid invoices.​ * Analyzes project profitability, revenue, margins, bill rates and utilization.​ * Manages key strategic internal client relationships with project stakeholders and senior management.​ * Drives project requirements, priorities and deadlines, not just record & manage them.​ Leads highly skilled, cross-functional teams--software developers, IT Operations, vendors, business stakeholders and consultants--across one or more projects.​ Manage large-scale software integration and customization.​ * Develops and manages budget for assigned project(s), monitors project progress and adjusts resources and priorities accordingly.​ Prepares and presents progress reports for management.​ * Interacts at very high levels with decision-makers both internally and externally.​ Manages expectations and provides master project planning to ensure all agreed upon deliverables are met cost effectively and according to project timeline commitments.​ * Prioritizes deliverables and manages project scope.​ * Contributes to the construction and evaluation of program and project management best practices across the company.​ * Leads the design and execution of project-specific Research and Development initiatives.​ * Monitor schedule contract performance by establishing milestones and measurable performance targets * Prepare monthly schedule milestone report deliverables.​ * Interface with the client in support of management reviews.​ The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/​or ability required.​ * Reliable, punctual, motivated, hard-working and a willingness to go “above and beyond” * Polished and professional demeanor * Highly intelligent, thick skinned, excellent organizational skills * Ability to deal with individuals at all levels * Ability to work under pressure on multiple assignments at once; Ability to prioritize and multi-task * Ability to be discrete * Ability to work independently * Ability to thrive in a fast paced, diverse and demanding environment and meet critical deadlines * Possess a cheerful demeanor, professional presentation and eagerness to contribute * Ability to deal with stressful situations and difficult people * Responsible with an excellent work ethic and a Company Description: Rapidly growing international marketing and project Management Company headquartered in the Washington, D.​C.​ metro area is seeking highly qualified candidates to fill a key position.​ The company specializes in the defense, product and technology sectors and covers defense OEM and defense integrator, and US DOD defense markets in the United States or via the US Foreign Military Sales process to global friends and allies.​ The Mistral Group was founded in 1988. We are headquartered in the Washington, D.C. metro area, where government and defense procurement meets commercial interests and an ever-expanding technology belt. Our mission is two-fold. First, we aim to serve as a single source of turnkey solutions for buyers of standard as well as state-of-the-art industrial, defense, and security products. Simultaneously, we provide project management and international marketing support to the suppliers of these items. This ensures that the chain of events that must take place to bring industrial, defense, and security buyers and suppliers together from around the world happens seamlessly and successfully. Although our initial focus was on the R&D, federal procurement and prime contractor markets, Mistral has since significantly expanded its activities into industrial OEM, commercial, local and state governments, defense and law enforcement. Today, we are recognized throughout the United States, Europe, the Middle East and the Far East as the place people turn to find the solutions they need whether project management, product, technology or marketing related. Mistral Inc, the Defense unit, acting as the prime contractor on contracts with the U.S., sub-contracting and representing foreign military manufacturers for U.S. Department of Defense programs, promoting subcontracting capabilities between foreign entities and U.S. and America. "Karil international marketing" is the Israeli member of the Mistral Group with responsibility for representing the Group’s interests in the Middle East, Europe, Africa and the Far East.