Senior Growth Strategist, Air Force

Alexandria, VA (Hybrid)

$200K/yr – $250K/yrSenior Level7+ years expFull time

Posted 19 hrs ago

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Job Summary

Own and drive Air Force growth and capture initiatives, leading cross-functional teams to identify large opportunities, shape win strategies, and manage proposal leadership and pipeline growth across the US Air Force market.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Lead corporate growth activities, including opportunity identification, business development, capture management, proposal development, and pipeline growth focused on US Air Force.
  • A priority for this role is to identify and capture large opportunities (>$100M) leveraging company-wide capabilities as well as develop and lead cross-divisional collaborative teams to pursue these opportunities.
  • Develop and lead a win strategy for Air Force opportunities:
  • Meet with customers, competitors, clients, and teammates to develop market insight on requirements, acquisition strategy, acquisition timing, and contract vehicle choices.
  • Lead call plan development, execution, and follow-up activities.
  • Lead solutioning and strategy efforts.
  • Perform market research to include customer preferences, competitive analysis, and incumbent strengths and weaknesses.
  • Develop and present data in Capture Hygiene Checks, Solution Design Reviews, and Gate Reviews.
  • Lead development and author RFI responses and white papers.
  • Proposal writing and leadership of management and technical volumes to include project management plans, basis of effort development, technical volumes, past performance and staffing plans.

Requirements

  • Active Secret Security Clearance
  • Bachelor's degree and 7+ years of related experience in business development for professional services contracts supporting the Air Force, DoD
  • Proven experience driving revenue growth and executing captures within the Air Force market
  • Experience building and managing a $1B+ pipeline
  • Demonstrated experience creating growth strategies and executing captures for US Air Force opportunities with a value exceeding $100M for single-award contracts and exceeding $500M for multiple award IDIQ contracts
  • Proven ability to develop creative and/or differentiated solutions for Air Force or DoD clients
  • Demonstrated ability to work with diverse teams and engage with senior Air Force stakeholders

Preferred

  • Experience leading capture across various Air Force organizations
  • Proven success in winning single award contracts in excess of $250M total contract value
  • Experience with commercial Business Intelligence tools such as Govwin and Bloomberg
  • Experience with OTAs, CSOs, SBIR Phase IIIs and other alternative contracting options are a plus
  • Experience with selling commercial solutions is a plus
  • Experience supporting DevSecOps opportunities
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