Business Development Manager - Army
Business Development Manager - Army
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$ 104650 - 189175
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Job Description
The Engineering Integration and Operations Business Area of the Leidos National Security Sector is seeking an energetic Business Development Manager to lead US Army Business Development (BD).
The Business Development Manager (BDM) is responsible for all BD activities to drive Army growth. The position will pursue new opportunities in the areas of Mission Operation system lifecycle support across Army systems - Command Control Communications Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance systems; strategic systems; and various specialized or supporting systems and software to include data support initiatives data ingest and integration. The BDM will develop and execute the marketing and BD strategy to action for these accounts. The position will be the creative and trusted agent of Division and Functional Management to drive a culture of innovation and business development excellence.
The candidate must thrive in an environment of responsibility for the management and execution of the full BD life-cycle process across multiple simultaneous pursuits and proposals.
In addition to building a qualified pipeline of opportunities the BDM will help shape customer requirements translate tacit customer needs into actionable features drive differentiation in Leidos solutions and help create a compelling value proposition. The ideal candidate will have previously served as a business development manager and/or capture manager with proven experience supporting DoD US Army experience/recently retired military is highly preferable.
Successful candidates will have the ability to conceptualize a vision for winning develop strategy and BD capture plans that implement the vision and translate the strategy into win themes. They will also be able to efficiently manage investments in marketing and Bid and Proposal (B&P) funds. The candidate is expected to be a critical partner with the technology team to coalesce the divisions growth strategy along with the technology strategy.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Grow the opportunity pipeline to include existing as well as adjacent markets/customers through diligent and timely identification/qualification of new business opportunities.
- Partner with Leadership to refine the division strategy and shape a balanced portfolio.
- Lead and participate in the identification qualification and pursuit of strategic business opportunities particularly opportunities greater than $50M in value.
- Drive collaboration across the organization to bring best-in-class solutions to the customer and maximize win probability.
- Seek and utilize market intelligence and competitor data to position the division for ensuring success.
- Participate as a thought leader in bid decisions gate reviews and the development of cost strategies.
- Develop and execution customer call plans.
- Conduct customer visits and articulate current and emerging customer needs and requirements.
- Actively participate in capture activities to include opportunity gate reviews black hat sessions collaboration and workshop sessions proposal reviews and business-case development
- Drive the development and submission of white papers and RFI responses to proactively shape strategic opportunities.
- Conduct after-action reviews for all business opportunity capture participants to document lessons learned and identify necessary adjustments to capture technique strategy and actions.
- Develop marketing and B&P budgets and execute BD plans within those approved budgets.
- Support monthly detailed pipeline reviews with Senior leadership.
- Attend tradeshows and execute customer call plans post-tradeshows.
Basic Qualifications:
- Requires a bachelors degree and 8-12 years of relevant experience or masters degree with 6-10 years of relevant experience.
- 5 years of BD leadership experience in defense (specifically Army) security or government services
- Demonstrated successes in leading $25M opportunities from identification through proposal submission
- Experience managing budgets of $2M
- Demonstrated success in leading DoD services business
- Ability to identify establish and use important customer relationships with senior-level officials and program stakeholders with DOD Customers
- Experience developing overall win strategy shaping deals with customers developing team strategies understanding pricing and assisting in developing winning price
- Knowledge of competitors and ability to model competitor behaviors in the market
- Ability to identify key growth areas and develop new business aligned with the companys growth strategy
- Proven ability to collaborate within and across organizational boundaries
- Knowledge of Government contracting current acquisition trends and customer buying behaviors
- Excellent written and oral communication skills; experience presenting to senior executives peers and customers
- Ability to empower and engage people and instill drive and passion into the organization
- Top Secret/SCI eligibility required
Preferred Qualifications:
- 8 years of BD leadership experience in mission-critical solutions in areas such as tactical systems intelligence systems intelligence operations and communications
- A technical degree is highly desired or an advanced degree
- Management of a qualified pipeline of opportunities with a value of $1B
- Knowledge of US Army INSCOM
Up to 25% travel required.
Location: Reston VA
Original Posting:
June 20 2025For U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.
Pay Range:
Pay Range $104650.00 - $189175.00The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline onlyand not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job education experience knowledge skills and abilities as well as internal equity alignment with market data applicable bargaining agreement (if any) or other law.
Required Experience:
Manager
Employment Type
Full-Time
