Remote Director, Pursuit Operations & Rapid Response

Maximus; Jackson (MS); Remote; USD 150,000 - 195,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Work/Life Balance

Bonuses based on performance

Job summary

Maximus is hiring a Director of Pursuit Operations, Rapid Response to lead the intake, assessment, prioritization, and coordination of new business opportunities across the organization. This fully remote role requires guiding cross-functional teams and advising executives on go/no-go decisions to drive growth.

The ideal candidate brings a strategic, operational leadership style with experience managing MSAs, RFIs, and short-fuse opportunities across government, health and human services, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in relevant field of study.
• 10+ years of relevant professional experience required.
• Specialized experience leading pursuit intake, early qualification, triage, risk assessment, resource mobilization, and pursuit governance for complex government, health and human services, BPO, contact center, or similarly complex services opportunities.
• Candidates should have demonstrated ability to advise executives on opportunity prioritization, readiness, schedule acceleration, go/no-go considerations, unresolved decisions, governance cadence, and cross-functional resource deployment.
• Must be comfortable operating in short-fuse environments, balancing speed with quality, and using approved AI-enabled tools responsibly to improve visibility, coordination, and follow-through.

Responsibilities

• Serves as the organization's first-response function for MSAs, RFIs, unsolicited and emerging opportunities, and other short-fuse business development requests.
• Leads early opportunity qualification, triage, risk assessment, and resource mobilization to ensure timely and disciplined pursuit execution.
• Lead intake, assessment, and triage of newly identified, unsolicited, and previously untracked opportunities across multiple lines of business.
• Establish and manage rapid-response processes for evaluating opportunity fit, strategic alignment, resource requirements, competitive positioning, and pursuit viability.
• Facilitate early qualification activities and executive decision-making regarding bid/no-bid recommendations.
• Maintain visibility into emerging opportunities and escalated high-priority pursuits requiring immediate attention.
• Track MSA, RFI, and emerging opportunity activity to identify trends, readiness requirements, and future pipeline opportunities.
• Lead rapid mobilization of pursuit resources for short-fuse opportunities, task orders, demonstrations, executive presentations, and accelerated procurement timelines.
• Assess resource availability, identify capability gaps, and escalated constraints that may impact pursuit success.
• Ensure critical milestones, reviews, and executive approvals are completed within compressed timelines.
• Provide strategic guidance to executives on pursuit readiness, resource deployment, schedule acceleration, and risk mitigation.
• Lead, coach and develop a team by providing clear direction that support individual and organizational objectives
• Champion responsible use of approved AI-enabled tools and automation to improve intake, triage, reporting, knowledge management, and pursuit operations.

Education

Bachelor's degree in relevant field of study

Job description

Maximus is hiring a Director of Pursuit Operations, Rapid Response to lead the intake, assessment, prioritization, and coordination of new business opportunities across the organization. This fully remote role requires guiding cross-functional teams and advising executives on go/no-go decisions to drive growth.

The ideal candidate brings a strategic, operational leadership style with experience managing MSAs, RFIs, and short-fuse opportunities across government, health and human services, and