Vice President, Capture Excellence - Digital Modernization

Description

The VP, Capture Excellence role for the Digital Modernization Sector is responsible for leading as well as providing oversight and capture guidance across a series of strategic sector and priority opportunities.

The qualified candidate must thrive in an environment where they are responsible for the management and execution of the full capture life‑cycle across multiple simultaneous pursuits and proposals. We are an agile team that is looking for a highly motivated, detail‑oriented, self‑directed individual. The candidate is expected to understand and adapt to our identified proposal protocol, as well as understand Leidos products and services.

This individual will be expected to coalesce with team members, BD, and operational leadership. This person will also gather, assess, and validate customer requirements, working closely with BD leads – identifying related needs and constraints that impact the winning solution. Candidates at this level will develop value propositions through program strategies, supporting business cases and project plans and develop early win strategies and evolve the strategy throughout the Capture lifecycle.

The candidate is expected to exercise sound judgment within broadly defined practices and policies; regularly interact with all levels of management, functional POCs, staff, and customers; and display a high degree of tact and diplomacy. Characteristics necessary for success include: business and technical vision; disciplined strategic thinking; analytical presentation and problem solving skills; the ability to gain internal support; and the ability to establish and maintain a solid working relationships and communication with technical staff, managers, and peers.

This position is to be a capture manager, a capture executive, a capture coach, and a capture mentor.

• Lead $1B+ captures
• Be a subject matter expert on the Leidos Win Plan processes and policies
• Develop value propositions, support business cases and project plans and develop early win strategies
• Develop, organize and execute significant capture activities, including building industry and Leidos‑internal teams
• Assist with the creation and execution of call plans
• Assist with the gathering, assessment and validation of customer requirements, identifying gaps and emerging requirements
• Communicate resource needs and leverage resources assigned, collaborating with subject and technical matter experts, functional leads, and Program Managers
• Plan and participate in capture activities, to include white papers, RFIs, sources sought, workshops, opportunity gate reviews, black hat sessions, collaboration sessions, and proposal reviews
• Conduct after action reviews for all business opportunities, document lessons learned and identify necessary adjustments to capture technique, strategy, and actions

• Typically requires a Bachelor’s degree in a related field and 15+ years of related experience or 15+ years of demonstrated, relevant federal capture leadership experience in lieu of degree
• Leadership skills to develop, organize and execute significant capture activities, including building industry teams, assessing win probability, ensuring execution of customer call plans to shape acquisitions in order to respond to and win business with new and existing customers
• Demonstrated experience coaching teams and interacting with all levels of executive and line management
• Extensive knowledge, experience, and success in winning captures of large scale opportunities $1B+ Demonstrable understanding of all contract types (non-IDIQ, IDIQ - single or multiple award contracts), as well as payment types (e.g., FFP, T&M, cost plus)
• Ability to work and execute a quick reaction process for all government responses
• Ability to influence constructively and interact at the highest levels of the corporate structure is a prerequisite
• Excellent interpersonal, problem solving, and business acumen
• Confidence and experience dealing with senior executives; ability to work efficiently in fast‑paced, time‑sensitive and often multi‑tasking environment
• Ability to travel, as necessary in support of the capture, based…