- Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government Secret clearance.
- Bachelor’s degree in business, information technology, engineering, public administration, acquisition management, or a related discipline.
- Minimum of 8 years of progressively responsible federal business development, account management, or capture experience, including a demonstrated record of identifying, qualifying, shaping, capturing, and winning new business.
- Demonstrated experience developing business within the U.S. Air Force, Department of Defense, or a closely related federal defense market, with a working understanding of Air Force mission priorities, organizational structures, decision-making processes, and acquisition practices.
- Existing relationships or demonstrated ability to establish trusted relationships with government customers, acquisition personnel, program offices, technical stakeholders, and industry partners within the Wright-Patterson AFB, Dayton, or broader Air Force ecosystem.
- Strong working knowledge of the federal acquisition lifecycle, including market research, acquisition planning, Requests for Information, Sources Sought notices, draft and final solicitations, task-order competitions, recompetes, set-asides, sole-source procurements, and post-award account growth.
- Working knowledge of traditional FAR-based acquisitions and nontraditional acquisition methods, including Other Transaction Agreements and related consortium-based or rapid-acquisition approaches.
- Experience capturing and winning new business for SBA 8(a) Small Disadvantaged Businesses, including demonstrated success pursuing competitive set-aside and sole-source opportunities. Experience positioning awards for Alaska Native Corporations, tribally owned or Native American businesses, or Native Hawaiian Organizations, with working knowledge of applicable socioeconomic contracting authorities and acquisition practices.
- Demonstrated ability to leverage tribal 8(a) sole-source authorities and contract vehicles such as GSA Multiple Award Schedule (MAS), GSA One Acquisition Solution for Integrated Services Plus (OASIS+), NASA Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement (SEWP), and other Government-Wide Acquisition Contracts and Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity vehicles to improve market access and accelerate procurement.
- Demonstrated capture leadership through opportunity qualification, customer call planning, capture planning, competitive assessments, Black Hat reviews, solution framing, price-to-win support, win strategy development, teaming strategy, and executive-level Bid/No Bid recommendations.
- Ability to develop and execute multi-year account plans, market-entry strategies, customer engagement plans, and opportunity roadmaps aligned with corporate growth objectives.
- Strong business and financial acumen, including the ability to evaluate market potential, opportunity value, acquisition timing, competitive position, investment requirements, probability of win, revenue potential, and return on business development investment.
- Excellent written, verbal, presentation, and executive communication skills, including the ability to communicate with senior government customers, corporate executives, technical personnel, partners, and cross-functional teams.
- Proficiency with customer relationship management tools such as Monday CRM, Zoho CRM, Salesforce, or similar systems for pipeline management, account planning, forecasting, activity tracking, and performance reporting.
- Proficiency with federal market-intelligence and procurement resources, including SAM.gov, GSA eBuy, Deltek GovWin IQ, GovTribe, HigherGov or successor systems, USAspending.gov, SBA Dynamic Small Business Search (DSBS), agency procurement forecasts, and comparable federal research tools.
- Ability to establish and maintain accurate pipeline metrics, including pipeline value and coverage, opportunity stage, qualification status, capture milestones, probability of win, forecast accuracy, bid rate, win rate, revenue attribution, and account growth.
- Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively with executive leadership, operations, contracts, pricing, technical delivery, recruiting, security, marketing, capture, and proposal personnel.
- Ability to travel approximately 10% to 20% to customer, partner, industry, and corporate locations.
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