Business Development Senior Manager (Cyber)

Join the Peraton Labs team to provide business development and capture support with a focus on advanced Cyber research. This critical domain spans offensive and defensive cyber capabilities cyber resilience automated thread detection and AI-enable cyber operations. We are seeking a versatile business development and capture manager to help grow our space research portfolio by identifying new opportunities shaping capture strategies engaging customers and coordinating proposal development. This role requires a blend of customer-facing business development skills domain experience in space research and hands-on proposal leadership. As part of a small agile team the successful candidate will take ownership across the opportunity lifecycle from early customer engagement through proposal submission and award.

Key responsibilities include:

Business Development and Opportunity Identification

• Identify qualify and pursue new business opportunities across multiple customers in the cyber research domain
• Develop and maintain strong customer relationships to understand mission needs research priorities and funding trends
• Monitor solicitations roadmaps and research initiatives to anticipate future opportunities
• Collaborate with management and technical leadership to align customer needs with organizational capabilities and strategic objectives

Capture and Solutioning

• Lead capture activities including win strategy development competitive analysis teaming and solution shaping
• Apply space domain expertise to inform approaches discriminators and value propositions
• Work closely with architects engineers and researchers to develop compelling executable solutions
• Support pricing risk identification and execution planning in coordination with internal stakeholders

Proposal Management and Development

• Serve as Proposal Manager for selected opportunities particularly in support of a small-team environment
• Develop proposal schedules outlines compliance matrices and color team plans
• Coordinate inputs from technical management and business contributors
• Ensure proposals clearly articulate customer value technical credibility and competitive differentiation
• Manage reviews track action items and ensure on-time delivery

Required Qualifications:

• 12 years of experience including at least 5 years of experience in a business development role
• Bachelors degree in engineering science business or a related field
• Prior experience identifying and pursuing opportunities in cyber or adjacent domains
• Ability to navigate unfamiliar customer organizations develop and foster relationships and secure meetings
• Experience supporting or leading proposal development including strategy compliance and integration for competitive bids
• Strong understanding of research-focused customers funding mechanisms and acquisition processes
• Ability to work across multiple opportunities simultaneously in a fast-paced environment
• Self-motivated independent detail oriented responsible team-player
• Strong written and oral communication skills with an ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Ability to travel regularly to support customer meetings and conferences
• U.S. Citizenship and the ability to maintain a TS/SCI clearance

Desired Qualifications:

• Familiarity and/or existing customer relationships with government research and acquisition organizations (DARPA AFRL NRL DIU IC etc.) and/or commercial space companies
• Experience developing and managing relationships with partner companies
• Prior technical and/or management experience in a software-intensive field

Security Clearance:

Active Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility

Location:

Local to the DMV area

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