Senior Director, Capture Management – Program Integration

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The Leidos Defense Sector Program Integration organization is seeking a Senior Director Capture Management to provide leadership for complex high-value capture efforts across a diverse DoD customer portfolio. This role is responsible for leading enterprise-scale captures advancing capture excellence and developing a high-performing team of capture professionals.

This is a working capture leadership role with responsibility for the most challenging and strategically significant pursuits. The Senior Director Capture Management will report to the Vice President Program Integration Growth and partner closely with Business Area Growth Leads technical leadership and executive stakeholders to shape winning strategies and deliver sustained growth.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide senior leadership and oversight for capture management activities across a portfolio of complex high-value DoD opportunities.

• Lead and manage a team of capture managers ensuring consistent execution of Leidos capture processes and adherence to business and ethical standards.

• Serve as capture lead or executive capture advisor for the most strategic and competitive pursuits.

• Mentor develop and evaluate capture professionals building depth capability and succession within the capture organization.

• Drive capture discipline across opportunity qualification capture planning customer engagement competitive analysis pricing strategy teaming and proposal execution.

• Partner with Business Area Growth Leads and Program Integration leadership on pipeline development staffing decisions and pursuit prioritization.

• Influence and align cross-functional teams including technical program pricing contracts and operations to deliver integrated and compelling solutions.

• Develop and maintain trusted customer relationships and strong industry partnerships.

• Assess competitive landscapes and teaming environments to position Leidos for success.

• Support on-contract growth initiatives and follow-on capture opportunities.

• Make informed timely decisions in dynamic environments often with incomplete information.

• Champion continuous improvement in capture processes tools and best practices.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelors degree and 15 years of experience or equivalent experience with extensive relevant experience leading capture efforts and teams for federal or defense programs

• Progressive experience leading capture management activities across complex DoD or federal procurements

• Demonstrated experience leading individuals and cross-functional teams in matrixed environments

• Proven record of success capturing and winning large highly competitive federal opportunities including single-award pursuits exceeding $300M

• Experience capturing and winning manufacturing production or hardware-based programs including development-to-production transitions or sustainment efforts

• Strong leadership capability to mentor develop and evaluate talent while maintaining high performance standards

• Demonstrated strategic thinking sound judgment and decision-making skills

• Excellent written and oral communication skills including development of capture artifacts proposals and executive briefings

• Demonstrated proficiency across all phases of the capture lifecycle including opportunity qualification customer engagement competitive positioning pricing strategy teaming and negotiations

• Experience developing and negotiating teaming agreements

• Familiarity with federal government solicitation tools and procurement environments

Preferred Qualifications

• Advanced degree (MBA or technical masters degree)

• Significant experience leading people teams and complex capture efforts

• Deep experience supporting DoD and federal procurement organizations

• Experience with Other Transaction Authorities (OTAs) including OTA-based solicitations consortia and non-traditional acquisition approaches

• Active Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility (TS/SCI with current polygraph preferred)

• Ability to operate independently influence without authority and build strong working relationships across technical programmatic and executive teams

Security Clearance Requirement

• Active DoD Secret clearance with the ability to obtain and maintain TS/SCI

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