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Senior Capture Manager

Leidos Chantilly, VA senior full-time

Salary

$154,050 - $278,475 per year

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Description

The Analysis Solutions Business Area within Leidos' Intelligence Sector is seeking a Senior Capture Manager to lead high-performing capture teams.

The successful candidate possesses technical education and related professional experience, resourcefulness, and motivation to join a cohesive, winning team.

Primary Responsibilities:

  • Develop and lead the execution of the business area's overall capture strategy on approved pursuit efforts, increasing the win probability of new and existing projects.
  • Orchestrate bid strategy, provide oversight of the development of proposal volumes, conduct market and competition analysis, and create, lead, and support capture and proposal teams.
  • Work closely with the Analysis Solutions Business Area Leadership, Account Executives, Line/Market teams, and the required corporate and external capture and proposal resources; and efficiently manage bid and proposal funding.
  • Coordinate and collaborate with business development and marketing leads, assembling and managing the capture team to successfully bid and win contracts.
  • Contact and interface with existing and new clients and partners, communicating the organisation's core capabilities, and building differentiated teams of small and large partners.

Additional responsibilities include:

  • Lead generations of entire sections, volumes, proposals, and/or captures.
  • Develop solutions to difficult challenges and work through issues that are unclear and require thorough analyses and domain understanding.
  • Collaborate with internal stakeholders, business development and operations team members, as well as customer leadership and external stakeholders.
  • Work collaboratively with team members to generate and validate solution designs, process and/or approaches.
  • Participate in and/or lead opportunity gate reviews, black hat sessions, win theme and discriminator workshops, proposal and program reviews, and lessons learned activities; communicates status, resource needs, capture strategy, and recommendations to executive leadership.
  • Oversee the proposal phase of the opportunity to drive successful delivery to the client.
  • Contribute feedback and innovative ideas to the team in support of continuous improvement.

Basic Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree and 15+ years of prior relevant experience or Master's degree with 12+ years of prior relevant experience.
  • Demonstrated excellent written and verbal communication skills, as well as effective collaboration and inclusive leadership skills.
  • Familiarity with federal government acquisition types, processes, and tools.
  • Demonstrated skills in areas relevant to business development including: opportunity qualification, capture strategy, customer and industry collaboration, and team leadership.
  • Candidate must possess at least an active Secret clearance.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience capturing and winning business with proven skill at opportunity qualification, stakeholder engagement, solution development, and proposal submission.
  • Proven record of success managing and winning capture efforts within the Intelligence Community.
  • Experience in the development and successful negotiation of teaming agreements.
  • Experience in the development of competitive pricing strategies and associated cost proposals.
  • Active Top Secret / SCI clearance and willingness to obtain a successful polygraph.

The position is located primarily in Chantilly, VA and requires a Secret clearance with the ability to acquire a TS/SCI Full Scope Poly.

The pay range for this position is $154,050.00 - $278,475.00.

Skills

Required

Nice to have

  • Top Secret / SCI clearance
  • polygraph
  • teaming agreements
  • competitive pricing strategies

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