Capture Manager

Who We Are:

• CAE Vision: Our vision is to be the worldwide partner of choice in defense and security and civil aviation by revolutionizing our customers training and critical operations with digitally immersive solutions to elevate safety efficiency and readiness.

• CAE Defense & Security Mission: CAEs Defense and Security business unit focuses on helping prepare military customers to develop and maintain the highest levels of mission readiness.

• CAE Values: Empowerment Innovation Excellence Integrity and OneCAE make us who we are and we strive to make a difference in the world while helping each other succeed.

What We Have to Offer:

• Comprehensive and competitive benefits package and flexibility that promotes worklife balance

• A work environment where all employees are valued respected and safe

• Freedom to succeed by enabling team members to deliver take initiatives and make decisions

• Recognition professional development advancement and having fun!

Summary

This role serves CAE USAs Defense and Security Military Training and Simulation business responsible for managing the pursuit strategy for new business capture and recapturing existing business. Establishes and maintains relationships with prospective customers. Supports the Lead to Award process in accordance with established procedures to ensure complete accurate technically compliant and effective Company response to Customer requirements and objectives.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Establish and execute a capture strategy establishing partnerships and shaping new business opportunities

• Develop capture plans formulate winning capture strategies and obtain and manage the resources necessary to prosecute capture plans

• Oversee business capture from pursuit decision through contract award

• Coordinates with Business Development Leads to ensure a smooth transition from the Business Development phase to the Capture phase and with Proposal Department Leads to ensure a smooth transition from Capture Phase to Proposal Development phase in the Lead to Award Process

• Assists Business Development Leads when after a lead is qualified as an opportunity and prior to a pursuit decision

• Assists Business Development Leads with customer and industry partner relationships and interactions

• Manages a capture team that develops solution bid/win pricing teaming and proposal strategies

• Manages the PricetoWin development

• Develops and maintains a capture budget

• Identifies and manages resources to pursue a capture; establishes any infrastructures processes and plans necessary; and manages their

• Evaluates industry competitors for strengths and weaknesses to maximize Probability of Win

• Works with the Proposal Development team to ensure compliance with solicitation requirements

• Supports and participates in the Proposal Development process

• Works with Estimators to ensure proposal price is competitive

• Collaborates with a wide variety of functional groups such as sales engineering training services business development manufacturing and operations to develop and provide program definitions responsive to customer needs and market opportunities

• Identifies partnering opportunities

• Maintains communications and contacts to collect and analyze technical financial schedule and sales information for program

Qualifications and Education Requirements

• Bachelors degree in Engineering Business Administration English Communication related field

• Ability to successfully lead teams in a volatile and dynamic environment

• Ability to quickly learn understand and breakdown complex hightech systems

• Ability to multitask with minimal supervision and under pressure

• Resultoriented innovative and creative

• Good organizational skills and business acumen

• Ability to deal with ambiguity while remaining customer focused

• Excellent decision making and negotiation skills

• Must have excellent communication (including technical writing) and presentation skills

• Strong communications and interpersonal skills

• Must be proficient in Microsoft Office tools

• Ability to read analyze and interpret complex documents

• Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as prices commissions and percentages and to draw and interpret graphs

• Ability to interpret complex customer requirements and attitudes from verbal nonverbal and written communication

• Detail oriented strong analytical and problemsolving capabilities

• Typically five years of experience as a capture manager

• Due to U.S. Government contract requirements only U.S. citizens are eligible for this role.

Preferred Skills

• Masters Degree

• Extensive knowledge of DoD/Military and Interagency training methodology and procurement practices/regulations is preferred.

• Five years of experience as a Business Development lead in the military training industry or experience working in DoD program management or procurement

• Experience in DoD

• Extensive knowledge of US DoD procurement practices/regulations is preferred

• Understanding of military protocols and customs

• Experience in the development of technical proposals in response to US DoD or other government agency Requests for Proposal (RFPs)

• The ability to read analyze and interpret common US DoD contractual documents

• The ability to respond to common inquiries from customers regulatory agencies or members of the business community

• The ability to effectively present information to top management public groups and/or board of directors

• Ability to assist in development of and adherence to complex budgetary processes

• Ability to produce cost benefit analysis

• Ability to define problems collect data establish facts and draw valid conclusions

• Ability to deal with a variety of abstract ideas

• Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written oral diagram or scheule form

• Familiarity with government proposal process and FAR Subpart 15.403 Table 152 requirements

• Familiarity with FAR and DFAR especially FAR part 15 and FAR part 16

• Program Management skills or certification preferred

Security Responsibilities

Must complywith all company security and data protection / usage policies and procedures. Personally responsible for proper marking and handling of all information and materials in any form. Shall not divulge any information or afford access to other employees not having a needtoknow. Shall not divulge information outside company without management approval. All government and proprietary information will be accessed and stored electronically on company provided resources.

• Incumbent must be eligible for DoD Personal Security Clearance.

Due to U.S. Government contract requirements only U.S. citizens are eligible for this role.

Work Environment

This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers phones photocopiers filing cabinets and fax machines.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

• Must be able to work overtime as .

• Must be able to travel

Other Duties

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for their job. Duties responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

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