Leads capture strategy and cross-functional pursuit teams for new and recompete defense or aerospace contracts. Develops business solutions, competitive assessments, teaming strategies, price-to-win approaches, and proposal activities. Partners with business development, legislative affairs, executives, customers, and suppliers while managing capture reviews, competitive intelligence, analytics tools, training, events, budgets, performance metrics, and talent development.
Standard Job Description
Leads capture efforts to secure new or re-compete contracts, or task order business. Responsible for coordinating subordinate employee recruitment, selection and training, performance assessment, work assignments, salary, and recognition/disciplinary actions. Has accountability to shape and win new business through a balanced focus on customer value, the competitive environment, and the corporations best interests. Develops capture strategy including business solution for pursuit of opportunities; identifies potential customers, competitive assessments, teaming suppliers, and prices-to-win; participates in bid and proposal activities. Has responsibility to lead and integrate the assigned cross-functional team and authority to direct team activities for the duration of the pursuit. Maintains ongoing interaction with business development.
Basic Qualifications
- Senior Capture Leadership Experience – Experience in leading captures in a large defense or aerospace organization, with a proven record of winning multi‑year, multi‑agency programs.
- Demonstrated Strategic thinking and implementation– Skilled in leading quarterly capture reviews, executive new business assessments, and corporate‑focus strategy implementation
- Business‑Dev Leadership – Experience in working with Business Development and Legislative Affairs on stakeholder feedback and comms needed for competitive captures
- Tool Deployment & Data Analytics – Hands‑on experience using capture tools (e.g., PTW/DTC, RFP‑Analytics), designing dashboards, and deriving actionable insights from usage metrics and performance data
- Acquisition & Regulatory Expertise –DOD FAR-based and adaptive acquisitions and International acquisition policies - experience navigating complex contracting environments
- Competitive Intelligence–Management of CI program that sources, vets, and discloses intelligence in compliance with agency/corporate standards, with an actionable strategy.
- Professional Development Design – Experience in capture training and measuring learning impact in a “OneLM” culture.
- Trade‑Show & Event Management and Talent Development
- Performance Metrics & Pilot Design
- Stakeholder & Executive Communication
- Budgeting & ROI Analysis
Desired Skills
Pay Information
Full-Time Salary Range: $180000.00 - $325000.00
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Benefits offered: Medical, Dental, Vision, Flexible work arrangements and schedules (e.g., 4x10), 401(k) match, Paid time off, Holidays, Parental Leave, EAP, Flexible Spending Accounts, Education Assistance, Life Insurance, Short-Term Disability, and Long-Term Disability.
- Annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation programs may be offered depending on the position. Payments under these annual programs are not guaranteed and can vary from year to year and are tied to a range of performance metrics.
- For (Washington state applicants only) Non-represented full-time employees: accrue at least 10 hours per month of Paid Time Off (PTO) to be used for incidental absences and other reasons; receive at least 90 hours for holidays. Represented full time employees accrue 6.67 hours of Vacation per month; accrue up to 52 hours of sick leave annually; receive at least 96 hours for holidays. PTO, Vacation, sick leave, and holiday hours are prorated based on start date during the calendar year.
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