Business Development Manager - Maritime Readiness; Navy

Description

Leidos is a trusted innovation partner to the U.S. Navy and the broader maritime community, delivering advanced solutions across in support of warfighter readiness, sustainment, combat systems integration, and mission-critical technologies. Maritime growth is a cornerstone of Leidos' North Star 2030 strategy.

Leidos is an industry and technology leader serving government and commercial customers with smarter, more efficient digital and mission innovations. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, with 47,000 global employees, Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $16.7 billion for the fiscal year ended January 3, 2025. For more information, visit

The Business Development Manager (BDM) is responsible for all BD activities and strategy development to drive US Navy services support growth. The position will pursue new opportunities in the areas of mission support; systems engineering and integration of C5

ISR systems; communications in contested areas; cyber security, cloud, resiliency to support multi-domain and distributed operation in contested environment. Experience in platform and Systems Sustainment, Modernization, Global Logistics, Logistics Support Systems, Mission Software, and AI/ML applied predictive readiness solutions is highly desired.

BDM will develop and execute the marketing and BD strategy in support of our Navy account. The position will be the creative and trusted agent of the Division Management and Functional Management to drive a culture of innovation and capture excellence. Responsible for the customer call plans. The candidate must thrive in an environment where they are responsible for the management and execution of the full BD life-cycle process across multiple simultaneous pursuits and proposals.

In addition to building a qualified pipeline of opportunities, the BDM will help shape customer requirements, translate tacit customer needs into actionable features, drive differentiation in Leidos' solutions and help create a compelling value proposition. The ideal candidate will have previously served as a business development manager and/or capture manager with proven experience supporting Navy customers.

The candidate is expected to be a critical partner with the technology team and solution architects and coalesce the division's strategy along with the technology strategy. They should have experience efficiently managing investments in marketing and Bid and Proposal (B&P) funds.

• Grow the opportunity pipeline, to include existing as well as adjacent markets/customers, through diligent and timely identification/qualification of new business opportunities.
• Partner with the Leadership to shape a balanced portfolio of future opportunities.
• Lead and participate in the identification, qualification and pursuit of strategic business opportunities, and opportunities greater than $50M in value.
• Assign and optimize growth resources amongst competing priorities.
• Drive collaboration across the organization to bring best-in-class solutions to the customer and maximize win probability.
• Seek and utilize market intelligence and competitor data to position the division for ensuring success.
• Conduct customer visits and articulate current and emerging customer needs and requirements.
• Actively participate in capture activities, to include opportunity gate reviews, collaboration and workshop sessions, and business case development.
• Drive the development and submission of white papers and RFI responses to proactively shape strategic opportunities.
• Conduct after-action reviews for all business opportunity capture participants to document lessons learned and identify necessary adjustments to capture technique, strategy, and actions.
• Develop marketing and B&P budgets and execute BD plans within those approved budgets.
• Attend trade shows and execute customer call plans post trade shows.

• Requires a BA degree in a technical field and 8+ years of prior relevant experience or Masters with 6+ years of prior relevant experience.
• Strategic thinker with long term business growth focus
• Demonstrated successes in leading $25M+…