Senior Offering Manager

<p><b><span style="font-size: 18px">About Coalfire</span></b></p><p><br></p><p><span style="font-size: 16px">Coalfire is on a mission to make the world a safer place by solving our clients’ hardest cybersecurity challenges. We work at the cutting edge of technology to advise, assess, automate, and ultimately help companies navigate the ever-changing cybersecurity landscape. We are headquartered in Chicago, Illinois with offices across the U.S. and U.K., and we support clients around the world.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style="font-size: 16px">But that’s not who we are – that’s just what we do.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 16px"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 16px">We are thought leaders, consultants, and cybersecurity experts, but above all else, we are a team of passionate problem-solvers who are hungry to learn, grow, and make a difference.</span></p><p><br></p><h2>Position Summary</h2> <p><span data-contrast="auto">We are looking for a highly skilled and experienced Senior Offering Manager to join our team. Reporting to the Managing Principal, Offering Management, you will support the design, standardization, pricing, packaging, enablement, and lifecycle management of Coalfire's offerings. You will help translate market needs and delivery capabilities into scalable, margin-aware offerings, pricing tools, sales collateral, and go-to-market motions. This role will work cross-functionally across delivery, sales, finance, operations, legal, marketing, and partnerships to improve portfolio hygiene, accelerate quoting and contracting, and strengthen customer and field outcomes. This role will act as an individual contributor, cross-functional operator, and trusted partner to offering leadership.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></p> <p></p><p><br></p><b>What You'll Bring</b><div> <div> <ul> <li><span data-contrast="auto">Support the lifecycle management of cybersecurity and compliance offerings, including ideation, design, refresh, packaging, launch, enablement, sustainment, and retirement activities.</span></li> <li><span data-contrast="auto">Partner with offering leadership, practice leaders, and solution stakeholders to standardize services into repeatable components, tiers, variations, and SKU-ready structures that improve scalability and consistency.</span></li> <li><span data-contrast="auto">Own day-to-day coordination of offering initiatives, including intake tracking, status reporting, meeting preparation, follow-up actions, and documentation of decisions across offering governance forums and portfolio workstreams.</span></li> <li><span data-contrast="auto">Create and maintain go-to-market sales collateral, including proposal materials, datasheets, whitepapers, standard presentations, catalogs, and other enablement content that clearly articulates Coalfire's value to clients and the field.</span></li> <li><span data-contrast="auto">Perform competitive analysis and pricing support for Coalfire offerings to inform packaging, list pricing, margin targets, and growth strategies for enterprise-level clients.</span></li> <li><span data-contrast="auto">Support pre-sales activities, including client meetings, solutioning discussions, and cross-functional RFP responses, ensuring offerings are positioned clearly and scoped consistently.</span></li> <li><span data-contrast="auto">Stay current with emerging security threats, industry trends, and client demand patterns, and proactively recommend updates to offerings, messaging, and portfolio priorities.</span></li> <li><span data-contrast="auto">Partner with senior leadership and cross-functional teams to improve scoping, quoting, and contracting workflows, including cost case optimization, standard scope definitions, and SOW content inputs.</span></li> <li><span data-contrast="auto">Support the development of new threat-focused services, including initial research, offering design, pricing inputs, staffing assumptions, collateral development, partner coordination, and internal enablement.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></li> </ul> </div> </div><p><br></p><b>What You'll Do</b><div> <div> <div> <ul> <li><span data-contrast="auto">5-10 years of experience in offering management, product management, program management, go-to-market strategy, business operations, or related roles within cybersecurity or professional services.</span></li> <li><span data-contrast="auto">Great attention to detail in work products, including understanding an end-to-end experience, building easy to understand solutions, and creating experiences that delight clients while meeting their cybersecurity needs. </span></li> <li><span data-contrast="auto">Strong knowledge of threat-focused cybersecurity services offerings (such as penetration testing, adversary emulation, exposure management, detection and response, threat hunting, and related cybersecurity services) and/or security compliance and assurance frameworks (such as FedRAMP, Healthcare, CMMC, and other globally recognized compliance standards).</span></li> <li><span data-contrast="auto">Experience supporting client-facing and pre-sales situations, including solutioning discussions, proposal responses, and coordination during the delivery lifecycle.</span></li> <li><span data-contrast="auto">Strong understanding of how cybersecurity services are packaged, sold, and consumed by enterprise clients, with the ability to align client needs to scalable offerings and delivery models.</span></li> <li><span data-contrast="auto">Experience developing go-to-market materials and field enablement content for service offerings, including presentations, proposal content, catalogs, and datasheets.</span></li> <li><span data-contrast="auto">Experience supporting pricing, packaging, and margin analysis for service offerings, including work with financial models, bid sheets, or similar scoping tools.</span></li> <li><span data-contrast="auto">Experience launching or refreshing service offerings through cross-functional collaboration with delivery, sales, finance, legal, operations, marketing, and partnerships.</span></li> <li><span data-contrast="auto">Experience working with software or ecosystem partners on joint go-to-market motions, partner-attached offerings, or related enablement activities is preferred.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></li> <li><span data-ccp-props="{}"><span data-contrast="auto">Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to effectively convey complex technical and business concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.</span></span></li> <li><span data-ccp-props="{}"><span data-contrast="auto">Strong program and stakeholder management skills, with experience coordinating cross-functional initiatives and driving follow-through across multiple teams.</span></span></li> <li><span data-ccp-props="{}"><span data-contrast="auto">Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment, adapt quickly to changing priorities, and balance strategic thinking with operational execution.</span></span></li> <li> <div> <ul role="list"> <li aria-setsize="-1" data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="21" data-aria-posinset="1" data-aria-level="1" role="listitem"> </li> </ul> </div> <div> <ul role="list"> <li aria-setsize="-1" data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="21" data-aria-posinset="3" data-aria-level="1" role="listitem"> <p> </p> </li> </ul> </div> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </div><p><br></p><p></p> <div>$115,000 - $176,000 a year</div><small><div><span style="font-size: 16px"><i>The salary range listed is a reasonable estimate of the compensation range for this role based on national salary averages. The actual salary offer to the successful candidate will be based on job-related education, geographic location, training, licensure and certifications and other factors. You may also be eligible to participate in annual incentive, commission, and/or recognition programs. </i></span></div></small> <p><b><span style="font-size: 18px">Why You’ll Want to Join Us</span></b></p><p><br></p><p><span style="font-size: 16px">At Coalfire, you’ll find the support you need to thrive personally and professionally. In many cases, we provide a flexible work model that empowers you to choose when and where you’ll work most effectively – whether you’re at home or an office.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style="font-size: 16px">Regardless of location, you’ll experience a company that prioritizes connection and wellbeing and be part of a team where people care about each other and our communities. You’ll have opportunities to join employee resource groups, participate in in-person and virtual events, and more. And you’ll enjoy competitive perks and benefits to support you and your family, like paid parental leave, flexible time off, certification and training reimbursement, digital mental health and wellbeing support membership, and comprehensive insurance options.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style="font-size: 16px">At Coalfire, equal opportunity and pay equity is integral to the way we do business. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran. Coalfire is committed to providing access, equal opportunity, and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities. To request reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, contact our Human Resources team at </span><a style="font-size: 16px" href="mailto:HumanResourcesMB@coalfire.com">HumanResourcesMB@coalfire.com</a><span style="font-size: 16px">.</span></p>

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