# Senior Director, Capture Management - Defense Technology

**Company**: Leidos
**Location**: Huntsville, AL
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $154,050.00 - $278,475.00
**Category**: Defence & Intelligence
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

The Leidos Defense Sector is seeking a Senior Director, Capture Management to provide leadership for complex, high-value, and often fast-moving capture efforts across its Kinetics, Defense Sensors, and Integrated Fires and Force Protection Business Areas.

This is a player-coach capture leadership role with responsibility for leading and managing the most challenging and strategically significant pursuits, advancing capture excellence, and developing a high-performing team of capture professionals.

**Key Responsibilities**

- Provide senior leadership and oversight for capture management activities across a portfolio of complex, high-value DoD opportunities.

- Lead and manage a team of capture managers, ensuring consistent execution of Leidos capture processes and adherence to business and ethical standards.

- Serve as capture lead or executive capture advisor for the most strategic and competitive pursuits.

- Mentor, develop, and evaluate capture professionals, building depth, capability, and succession within the capture organization.

- Drive capture discipline across opportunity qualification, capture planning, customer engagement, competitive analysis, pricing strategy, teaming, and proposal execution.

- Partner with business area growth and P&L leaders on pipeline development, staffing decisions, and pursuit prioritization.

- Influence and align cross-functional teams, including technical, program, pricing, contracts, and operations, to deliver integrated and compelling solutions.

- Develop and maintain trusted customer relationships and strong industry partnerships.

- Assess competitive landscapes and teaming environments to position Leidos for success.

- Support on-contract growth initiatives and follow-on capture opportunities.

- Make informed, timely decisions in dynamic environments, often with incomplete information.

- Champion continuous improvement in capture processes, tools, and best practices.

**Basic Qualifications**

- Bachelor's degree and 15+ years of experience or equivalent experience with extensive relevant experience leading capture efforts and teams for federal or defense programs.

- Progressive experience leading capture management activities across complex DoD or federal procurements.

- Demonstrated experience leading individuals and cross-functional teams in matrixed environments.

- Proven record of success capturing and winning large, highly competitive federal opportunities, including single-award pursuits exceeding $200M.

- Experience capturing and winning manufacturing, production, or hardware-based programs, including development-to-production transitions or sustainment efforts.

- Strong leadership capability to mentor, develop, and evaluate talent while maintaining high performance standards.

- Demonstrated strategic thinking, sound judgment, and decision-making skills.

- Excellent written and oral communication skills, including development of capture artifacts, proposals, and executive briefings.

- Demonstrated proficiency across all phases of the capture lifecycle, including opportunity qualification, customer engagement, competitive positioning, pricing strategy, teaming, and negotiations.

- Experience developing and negotiating teaming agreements.

- Familiarity with federal government solicitation tools and procurement environments.

**Preferred Qualifications**

- Advanced degree (MBA or technical master's degree).

- Significant experience leading people, teams, and complex capture efforts.

- Deep experience supporting DoD and federal procurement organizations.

- Experience with Other Transaction Authorities (OTAs), including OTA-based solicitations, consortia, and non-traditional acquisition approaches.

- Active Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility.

- Ability to operate independently, influence without authority, and build strong working relationships across technical, programmatic, and executive teams.

**Security Clearance Requirement**

- Active DoD Secret clearance, with the ability to obtain and maintain TS/SCI.

**Pay Range:** $154,050.00 - $278,475.00

## Skills

### Required
- capture management
- leadership
- strategic thinking
- problem-solving
- communication
- project management
- team management
- customer engagement
- competitive analysis
- pricing strategy
- teaming
- proposal execution

### Nice to have
- Advanced degree (MBA or technical master's degree)
- Significant experience leading people, teams, and complex capture efforts
- Deep experience supporting DoD and federal procurement organizations
- Experience with Other Transaction Authorities (OTAs)
- Active Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility

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