Business Manager Jobs in Kansas City, MO
Business Manager jobs in Kansas City are in strong demand, concentrated in the Power & Light District, Crown Center, and the Crossroads Arts District across healthcare, financial services, logistics, and professional services. Employers hiring right now include Burns & McDonnell, GFT, and Bank of America. Find a role that fits below and apply directly.
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Top employerBurns & McDonnell
Work type75% On-site
Top credentialBachelor's
Companies hiring14
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Business Development & Proposal Manager
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GFT
Business Development & Proposal Manager
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Organon Pharmaceuticals
Territory Business Manager, Dermatology- Kansas City East
Kansas City, Missouri
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Spectrum
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Transwest Inc
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Business Development & Proposal Manager
GFT·Kansas City, Missouri
Job functions:
Bachelor's degree in communications
5,001-10,000 employees
Job Description
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What you’ll be challenged to do:
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Our clients choose us for our expertise and prefer us for our nimble approach, creativity, and personal touch. Backed by over a century’s experience, together we’re building a lasting legacy for future generations: stronger communities, a healthier planet, and better lives.
GFT: Ingenuity That Shapes Lives™ is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veterans’ status or other characteristics protected by law.
Unsolicited resumes from third party agencies will be considered the property GFT.
GFT does require the successful completion of a criminal background check for all advertised positions.
Location: Kansas City
Are you a strategic, collaborative business development leader who thrives at the intersection of client relationships, capture strategy, proposal excellence, and team development? GFT is seeking a growth-minded Midwest Area Business Development & Proposal Manager to help shape the future of business development in the Midwest. In this role, you’ll partner closely with area, business group, and client service leaders to advance growth priorities, support key clients, guide high-impact pursuits from early positioning through proposal and interview, and develop a high-performing BD team.
At GFT, we’re not just pursuing projects—we’re strategically capturing opportunities that shape our communities. The Strategic Growth Office is the engine behind GFT’s enterprise-wide growth. It fuels our most significant pursuits by aligning talent, insights, and strategy to win complex, high-impact projects. From vision through delivery, we partner across all Business Groups to develop compelling, competitive proposals that reflect our core values and technical excellence.
What you’ll be challenged to do:
The BD & Proposal Manager is a senior position that supports either multiple regional business lines or one Global Business Line and contributes to meeting the goals in GFT's strategic plan by leading key business development support efforts. Working independently or through management of a team of resources for larger, more complex pursuits, the BD&P Manager is an internal BD support position that also works externally in support of (not in place of) the business lines’ client and capture managers. The BD&P Manager is responsible for owning the cradle-to-grave internal support from client management phase through proposal development phase of the BD Lifecycle Program (BDLP), including managing respective proposal efforts and/or participating routinely in the writing and reviewing of the proposal.
In this capacity, the successful candidate will be responsible for the following:
Supervisory
- May manage one or more assistant proposal specialists/proposal specialists on a day-to-day basis. Responsibilities includes assignment of tasks to appropriate team member and review of work to ensure compliance with quality and department-specified practices and procedures
- May manage and/or assist Business Development Manager or Leader with proposal workload and resourcing for regional or global business development team
- May serve as timesheet approver, perform Performance Evaluation Reviews (PER), and recommend training for staff and provide input to annual training plan for department
- Other duties as assigned
Proposals
- Manages proposals and assures the capture strategy is defined and transitioned to the proposal strategy through the course of proposal development phases and final submittal/interviews, as required.
- Leads multiple large, long-term and complex pursuits concurrently
- Responsible for leading interview development and working closely with Manager for input and oversight
- Provides by discussing and writing the key strategic win theme development and messaging and organizes resources to support overall proposal effort (graphics, other proposal specialists, print production, operations, etc.) and requires no direct oversight from Manager to produce a quality proposal
CAPTURE PLANNING
- Proactively identifies opportunities in the pipeline that should start capture and then initiates with the business line, promotes, and leads Capture Planning support efforts for longer-term, complex opportunities concurrently with no oversight required by Manager
- Proactively researches and drives the development of the opportunity with the Capture Manager
- Concurrently works across multiple opportunities at any given time and establishes the priorities per each opportunity in alignment with the Capture Manager
- Able to flex within the framework of best practices
- Keeps all CRM documentation updated
- Uses capture management plans in accordance with company templates and standards
- Coordinates with respective MARCOM staff to define needs and develop strategic plan recommendations for the business line for early opportunity pre-positioning activities that will be led by MARCOM and overseen by the BD&P Manager
CLIENT MANAGEMENT
- In support of the client manager, develops client and teaming relationships at the direction of the client or capture managers. The BD&P manager may develop understanding of the pursuit through industry activities, such as trade shows to develop relationships and develop opportunities in support of the business line
- Leads any Tier 1 and/or 2 client management plans for a single business line with no oversight from Manager required
- Communicates/prioritizes BDM support efforts based on understanding of business plan
- Facilitates client management meetings and assures documentation in CRM
- Coordinates with respective MARCOM staff to define needs and develop strategic plan recommendations for the business line for early client pre-positioning activities that will be led by MARCOM and overseen by the BD&P Manager
What you will bring to our firm:
- Normally a 4-year degree required in English, marketing, journalism, communications, or applicable field is required
- Must have the requisite experience in the Midwest
What we prefer you bring:
- Normally 10+ years of total combined experience in the full lifecycle of business development (marketing, communications, client, capture, and proposal phases), with most of the experience focused in one or more of GFT's core business lines
- Minimum of 3 years of demonstrated experience supporting, facilitating, and participating in capture planning support
- Demonstrated success in taking opportunities successfully from capture support though and including successfully performing all phases of proposal management responsibilities
- Minimum of 5 years of demonstrated increasing responsibility in the business development lifecycle phases (marketing, communication, client, capture, proposal)
- At least 2 years of experience supervising staff (if applicable)
- Certification or training in business development, marketing, communications, or sales received through an industry professional organization is highly desirable
Compensation:
The salary range for this role is $115,000 - $130,000. Salary is dependent upon experience and geographic location.
Featured Benefits:
- Hybrid (in-person and remote) work environment.
- Comprehensive benefits package including wellness programs, parental leave, and pet insurance, in addition to medical, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance.
- Tax-deferred 401(k) savings plan.
- Competitive paid-time-off (PTO) accrual.
- Tuition reimbursement for continued education.
- Commitment to professional development, access to internal and external training programs, and support of active participation in professional organizations
- Incentive compensation for eligible positions.
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At GFT, a privately held AEC firm, we innovate where transportation, water, power, and buildings converge. We call this the Infrastructure of Life. We measure our success by the strength of our relationships – that’s why we’re the employer of choice for 5,000+ of the industry’s brightest engineers, planners, architects, inspectors, designers, and more.
Our clients choose us for our expertise and prefer us for our nimble approach, creativity, and personal touch. Backed by over a century’s experience, together we’re building a lasting legacy for future generations: stronger communities, a healthier planet, and better lives.
GFT: Ingenuity That Shapes Lives™ is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veterans’ status or other characteristics protected by law.
Unsolicited resumes from third party agencies will be considered the property GFT.
GFT does require the successful completion of a criminal background check for all advertised positions.
Location: Kansas City
Core Business Hours: 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Employment Status: Full-Time
Employment Status: Full-Time
GFT
Business Development & Proposal Manager
Kansas City, Missouri
New 1m ago5,001-10,000 employees
Job functions:
Bachelor's degree in communications
Job Description
:
What you’ll be challenged to do:
:
:
Our clients choose us for our expertise and prefer us for our nimble approach, creativity, and personal touch. Backed by over a century’s experience, together we’re building a lasting legacy for future generations: stronger communities, a healthier planet, and better lives.
GFT: Ingenuity That Shapes Lives™ is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veterans’ status or other characteristics protected by law.
Unsolicited resumes from third party agencies will be considered the property GFT.
GFT does require the successful completion of a criminal background check for all advertised positions.
Location: Kansas City
Are you a strategic, collaborative business development leader who thrives at the intersection of client relationships, capture strategy, proposal excellence, and team development? GFT is seeking a growth-minded Midwest Area Business Development & Proposal Manager to help shape the future of business development in the Midwest. In this role, you’ll partner closely with area, business group, and client service leaders to advance growth priorities, support key clients, guide high-impact pursuits from early positioning through proposal and interview, and develop a high-performing BD team.
At GFT, we’re not just pursuing projects—we’re strategically capturing opportunities that shape our communities. The Strategic Growth Office is the engine behind GFT’s enterprise-wide growth. It fuels our most significant pursuits by aligning talent, insights, and strategy to win complex, high-impact projects. From vision through delivery, we partner across all Business Groups to develop compelling, competitive proposals that reflect our core values and technical excellence.
What you’ll be challenged to do:
The BD & Proposal Manager is a senior position that supports either multiple regional business lines or one Global Business Line and contributes to meeting the goals in GFT's strategic plan by leading key business development support efforts. Working independently or through management of a team of resources for larger, more complex pursuits, the BD&P Manager is an internal BD support position that also works externally in support of (not in place of) the business lines’ client and capture managers. The BD&P Manager is responsible for owning the cradle-to-grave internal support from client management phase through proposal development phase of the BD Lifecycle Program (BDLP), including managing respective proposal efforts and/or participating routinely in the writing and reviewing of the proposal.
In this capacity, the successful candidate will be responsible for the following:
Supervisory
- May manage one or more assistant proposal specialists/proposal specialists on a day-to-day basis. Responsibilities includes assignment of tasks to appropriate team member and review of work to ensure compliance with quality and department-specified practices and procedures
- May manage and/or assist Business Development Manager or Leader with proposal workload and resourcing for regional or global business development team
- May serve as timesheet approver, perform Performance Evaluation Reviews (PER), and recommend training for staff and provide input to annual training plan for department
- Other duties as assigned
Proposals
- Manages proposals and assures the capture strategy is defined and transitioned to the proposal strategy through the course of proposal development phases and final submittal/interviews, as required.
- Leads multiple large, long-term and complex pursuits concurrently
- Responsible for leading interview development and working closely with Manager for input and oversight
- Provides by discussing and writing the key strategic win theme development and messaging and organizes resources to support overall proposal effort (graphics, other proposal specialists, print production, operations, etc.) and requires no direct oversight from Manager to produce a quality proposal
CAPTURE PLANNING
- Proactively identifies opportunities in the pipeline that should start capture and then initiates with the business line, promotes, and leads Capture Planning support efforts for longer-term, complex opportunities concurrently with no oversight required by Manager
- Proactively researches and drives the development of the opportunity with the Capture Manager
- Concurrently works across multiple opportunities at any given time and establishes the priorities per each opportunity in alignment with the Capture Manager
- Able to flex within the framework of best practices
- Keeps all CRM documentation updated
- Uses capture management plans in accordance with company templates and standards
- Coordinates with respective MARCOM staff to define needs and develop strategic plan recommendations for the business line for early opportunity pre-positioning activities that will be led by MARCOM and overseen by the BD&P Manager
CLIENT MANAGEMENT
- In support of the client manager, develops client and teaming relationships at the direction of the client or capture managers. The BD&P manager may develop understanding of the pursuit through industry activities, such as trade shows to develop relationships and develop opportunities in support of the business line
- Leads any Tier 1 and/or 2 client management plans for a single business line with no oversight from Manager required
- Communicates/prioritizes BDM support efforts based on understanding of business plan
- Facilitates client management meetings and assures documentation in CRM
- Coordinates with respective MARCOM staff to define needs and develop strategic plan recommendations for the business line for early client pre-positioning activities that will be led by MARCOM and overseen by the BD&P Manager
What you will bring to our firm:
- Normally a 4-year degree required in English, marketing, journalism, communications, or applicable field is required
- Must have the requisite experience in the Midwest
What we prefer you bring:
- Normally 10+ years of total combined experience in the full lifecycle of business development (marketing, communications, client, capture, and proposal phases), with most of the experience focused in one or more of GFT's core business lines
- Minimum of 3 years of demonstrated experience supporting, facilitating, and participating in capture planning support
- Demonstrated success in taking opportunities successfully from capture support though and including successfully performing all phases of proposal management responsibilities
- Minimum of 5 years of demonstrated increasing responsibility in the business development lifecycle phases (marketing, communication, client, capture, proposal)
- At least 2 years of experience supervising staff (if applicable)
- Certification or training in business development, marketing, communications, or sales received through an industry professional organization is highly desirable
Compensation:
The salary range for this role is $115,000 - $130,000. Salary is dependent upon experience and geographic location.
Featured Benefits:
- Hybrid (in-person and remote) work environment.
- Comprehensive benefits package including wellness programs, parental leave, and pet insurance, in addition to medical, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance.
- Tax-deferred 401(k) savings plan.
- Competitive paid-time-off (PTO) accrual.
- Tuition reimbursement for continued education.
- Commitment to professional development, access to internal and external training programs, and support of active participation in professional organizations
- Incentive compensation for eligible positions.
:
At GFT, a privately held AEC firm, we innovate where transportation, water, power, and buildings converge. We call this the Infrastructure of Life. We measure our success by the strength of our relationships – that’s why we’re the employer of choice for 5,000+ of the industry’s brightest engineers, planners, architects, inspectors, designers, and more.
Our clients choose us for our expertise and prefer us for our nimble approach, creativity, and personal touch. Backed by over a century’s experience, together we’re building a lasting legacy for future generations: stronger communities, a healthier planet, and better lives.
GFT: Ingenuity That Shapes Lives™ is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veterans’ status or other characteristics protected by law.
Unsolicited resumes from third party agencies will be considered the property GFT.
GFT does require the successful completion of a criminal background check for all advertised positions.
Location: Kansas City
Core Business Hours: 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Employment Status: Full-Time
Employment Status: Full-Time
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- Burns & McDonnell4
- GFT2
- Bank of America2
- Petfolk1
- Exterity1E
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- Consulting & Professional Services2
- Staffing & Recruiting1
Business Manager Jobs in Kansas City: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get a business manager job in Kansas City?
The clearest path is targeting Kansas City's strongest hiring sectors: healthcare systems, regional banks and insurance firms, logistics and freight companies, and professional services firms clustered downtown and in the Overland Park corridor. Candidates who stand out typically bring a mix of P&L ownership experience and familiarity with the mid-market business environment that defines Kansas City. Networking through local chambers and industry groups adds a real edge here.
Which companies hire business managers in Kansas City?
Companies currently hiring business managers in Kansas City include Burns & McDonnell, GFT, and Bank of America, per current listings on Migrate Mate as of July 2026. Kansas City's mix of large regional employers, corporate headquarters, and growing mid-market firms creates consistent demand across multiple industries and seniority levels.
Are there remote business manager jobs in Kansas City?
Yes, though availability depends heavily on the role. Business manager positions tied to operations, facilities, or team leadership are typically on-site, while those focused on analytics, strategy, or vendor management are more remote-friendly. About 25% of business manager openings tied to Kansas City are remote or hybrid as of July 2026. Financial services and professional services firms in Kansas City tend to offer the most hybrid flexibility.
How can I get a business manager job in Kansas City with little or no experience?
The most realistic entry path in Kansas City is moving up from a coordinator, operations associate, or team lead role within one of the city's large healthcare networks or logistics companies, which frequently hire and promote internally. Entry-level business operations roles at Kansas City's regional banks and insurance carriers are also a strong starting point. Demonstrating ownership of a budget or small team, even in a limited scope, makes a meaningful difference to local hiring managers.
Which industries hire the most business managers in Kansas City?
Kansas City business manager roles concentrate in Construction & Real Estate, Banking & Financial Services, and Consulting & Professional Services, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of July 2026. Kansas City's position as a regional hub for healthcare, financial services, and freight and distribution means these sectors consistently generate management-level openings across both corporate headquarters and operational divisions.
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