Capture Manager

Arcfield; Chantilly, Northern (VA, KY); Hybride; USD 116 000 - 201 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Arcfield is seeking a senior capture management professional to drive growth and capture initiatives within the EDGE sector. The role reports to the VP of Growth and targets defense and select federal/civil markets, including cyber security, cross-domain solutions, hypersonics, and naval/air force labs.

The successful candidate will act as a player-coach for a small team, develop and implement capture tactics aligned with Shipley practices, and lead price-to-win strategies to deliver compelling

Qualifications

• Senior-level capture leadership experience required in DoD or Fed/Civ sectors.
• Ability to develop and execute win strategies and pricing to win.
• Proven mentoring and teaching of teams in capture disciplines.
• Strong interpersonal and executive-level communication skills.

Responsabilités

• Develop and execute comprehensive capture plans with win strategies and themes.
• Serve as senior capture expert; codify best practices and audit plans.
• Mentor operations and growth professionals in capture discipline.
• Estimate resources and manage budgets/schedules for capture efforts.
• Collaborate with internal/external teams to craft compelling, competitively priced offerings.
• Translate customer requirements into robust bid elements and discriminators.
• Lead gate, pricing, and review activities; document lessons learned.
• Drive teaming strategies and strategic alliances.

Connaissances

Capture management

Proposal strategy

Team mentoring

Stakeholder engagement

Security clearance

Formation

BS/MS/PhD requirements

Description du poste

Responsibilities

Arcfield is seeking a senior capture management professional to focus on growth and capture initiatives within the Enterprise Digital Global Engineering(EDGE) sector. The position reports to the Vice President of Growth for the sector and is focused on growth in defense and select federal/ civilian markets. This portfolio includes cyber security, cross-domain solutions for transfer, hypersonic missile test and evaluation, fleet ballistic missile programs, and work at the Naval and Air Force research labs.

This position is envisioned to focus on the sector’s major strategic captures, with the successful candidate serving as “player coach” to a small cadre of operations and growth professionals for their key pursuits. Responsibilities will include ownership and development of capture tactics consistent with Shipley best capture practices, gap analyses and teaming recommendations, and price to win strategies to assure compelling proposals.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Developing and executing comprehensive capture plans following internal capture gate tools, and processes – with emphasis on win strategies, themes, value propositions, gap analyses, teaming recommendations, etc.
• Serving as senior capture expert for the sector; able to formulate and codify capture best practices while also auditing capture plans developed by others.
• Effective teaching and mentoring of operations and growth professionals in the capture discipline.
• Developing estimates of resource needs and leveraging resources assigned.
• Collaborating effectively with internal teams and external partners to develop compelling offerings in response to customer requirements at competitive prices.
• Collaborating with subject & technical matter experts, functional leads, and Program Managers to elaborate customer requirements, needs, and wants.
• Gathering, assessing, and validating customer requirements.
• Developing assessments of the competitive field and evaluate their relative strengths and threats to Arcfield’s bid strategy; conduct Black‑hats, PTWs, competitive scenarios, etc. to corroborate win strategies.
• Translating requirements into robust win strategy, carefully tested and validated, and advances strategy to management and technical design with strong value proposition and differentiated bid elements based on compelling features and benefits.
• Identifying gaps and developing strategies to overcome weaknesses and mitigate bid risks; develop discriminators and differentiators.
• Conducting and participating in gate, pricing, teaming, and capture reviews; lead and document lessons learned.
• Executing teaming strategies and negotiating teaming agreements and strategic alliances.
• Driving development and completion of critical bid artifacts required for proposal development; ensuring integrity of win strategy through supporting role in color reviews; support assigned Proposal Manager/Director by assisting the development of compliant and compelling bid artifacts.
• Managing to budget and schedules.

Qualifications

• BS 10-12, MS 8-10, PhD 5-7
• Ten or more years of related business experience
• Minimum of 8 years of capture management or related business experience in DoD and Fed/Civ markets
• Extensive knowledge, experience, and success in capture processes required, including demonstrable understanding of contract types (i.e.: non-IDIQ, IDIQ - single or multiple award contracts; FFP, T&M, cost plus, etc.) is expected.
• Ability to develop and execute a quick RFP triage process for Task Order RFPs, customer engagement, and Task Order proposal response
• Ability to influence constructively and interact at the highest levels of the corporate structure is a prerequisite
• Proficient and proven ability in capture management based on industry (i.e.: Shipley) best practices
• Excellent interpersonal and problem‑solving skills, and business acumen
• Confidence and experience developing engagement summaries for senior executives; ability to work effectively in fast‑paced, time sensitive, and multi‑tasking environment
• Ability to travel as necessary in support of the capture
• Must possess and maintain a current Secret Clearance

Equal Pay Act

This is the projected compensation range for this position. There are differentiating factors that can impact a final salary/hourly rate, including, but not limited to, Contract Wage Determination, relevant work experience, skills and competencies that align to the specified role, geographic location (For Remote Opportunities), education and certifications as well as Federal Government Contract Labor categories. In addition, Arcfield invests in its employees beyond just compensation. Arcfield ’s benefits offerings include, dependent upon position, Health Insurance, Life Insurance, Paid Time Off, Holiday Pay, Short Term and Long-Term Disability, Retirement and Savings, Learning and Development opportunities, wellness programs as well as other optional benefit elections.Min: $115,578.76Max: $200,969.03

EEO Statement

We are an equal opportunity employer and federal government contractor. We do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment as protected by law.