Senior Capture Manager Mission Solutions, National Security
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Job Location:
Chantilly, VA - USA
Monthly Salary:
$ 148850 - 269075
Posted on:
30+ days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
The Mission Solutions Business Area within the National Security Sector of Leidos is seeking a Sr Capture Manager to lead and support high-performing capture teams responsible for securing existing and winning new business opportunities in the Intelligence Community market.
The successful candidate possesses technical education and related professional experience resourcefulness and motivation to join a cohesive winning team. The position will report to the Director of Capture Management for the Mission Solutions Business Area. The position is located primarily in Chantilly VA and requires a Secret clearance with the ability to acquire a TS/SCI Full Scope Poly.
Primary Responsibilities:
The Sr Capture Manager is responsible for developing and supporting the execution of the business operations overall capture strategy associated with an approved pursuit effort to increase the win probability of new and existing projects.
Duties may include the following:
- Orchestrating bid strategy
- Providing oversight of the development of proposal volumes
- Conducting market and competition analysis
- Creating leading and supporting capture and proposal teams.
The selected candidate is responsible to follow corporate processes for business development and capture management.
- This includes working closely with the Mission Solutions Business Area Business Development Leads Account Executives and the required corporate and external capture and proposal resources accordingly
- Coordination and Collaboration includes working with:
- The person(s) responsible for business development or marketing leads
- Supporting the transition from opportunity identification into capture efforts
- Assembling a capture team and managing the capture team to successfully bid and win contracts
- Contacting and interfacing with existing and new clients and partners communicating the organizations core capabilities
- Establishing internal and external teaming and managing bid and proposal funding.
Additional responsibilities include:
- Works as lead responsible for entire sections volumes proposals and/or captures
- Develops solutions to difficult problems and issues that are unclear and require thorough analyses and understanding of domain knowledge
- Collaborates with internal stakeholders business development and operations team members as well as customer leadership and external stakeholders
- Works collaboratively with team members regarding solution design process and/or approaches
- Participates or leads opportunity gate reviews black hat sessions win theme and discriminator workshops proposal and program reviews and lessons learned activities; communicates status resource needs capture strategy and recommendations to executive leadership
- Oversees the proposal phase of the opportunity to ensure successful delivery to the client
- Contributes feedback and innovative ideas to the team in support of continuous improvement.
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelors degree and 15 years of prior relevant experience or Masters degree with 12 years of prior relevant experience
- Demonstrated excellent written and verbal communication skills as well as effective collaboration and inclusive leadership skills
- Familiarity with federal government acquisition types processes and tools
- Demonstrated skills in areas relevant to business development including: opportunity qualification capture strategy customer and industry collaboration and team leadership
- Candidate must possess an active Secret clearance
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in capturing and winning business development opportunities with emphasis on opportunity qualification stakeholder engagement solution development and proposal submission
- Proven record of success managing and winning capture efforts within the Intelligence Community
- Experience in the development of and successful negotiation of teaming agreements
- Experience in the development of competitive pricing strategies and associated cost proposal
- Active Top Secret / SCI clearance and willingness to obtain a successful polygraph
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Original Posting:
September 30 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 $148850.00 - $269075.00The 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
Key Skills
- Organizational Management
- Presentation Skills
- Agile
- SAFe
- AWS
- Solution Architecture
- Conflict Management
- Data Management
- Scrum
- Team Management
- Pre-sales
- Management Consulting
About Company
Leidos is an innovation company rapidly addressing the world's most vexing challenges in national security and health. Our 47,000 employees collaborate to create smarter technology solutions for customers in these critical markets.
