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Leidos, a part of the Science & Infrastructure Operations Business Area in the Health & Civil Sector, is actively seeking a highly qualified and motivated Capture Manager to join their dynamic team. This full-time position is based on the US East Coast, preferably in the DC-MD-VA area. The selected candidate will play a critical role in the leadership team for Science & Infrastructure Operations (SIO). Some travel may be required to support the needs of our geographically dispersed organization. Must be able to work onsite in a Leidos facility 3 days/week.

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We are in search of a Capture Manager to join our Science & Infrastructure Operations (SIO) Business Development Team. As a core member of the SIO Business Development/Capture team, you will play a valuable part managing multiple pursuits to ensure excellence in delivery of full life cycle capture activities that includes development of solutions through our Corporate Capture Management Process. This should lead to teaming and price to win strategies for compelling and winning proposals.

• Effective management and leadership of Capture teams
• Ability to determine customer requirements and evaluation priorities
• Ability to assess competitive landscape and determine optimal teaming partners
• Establish win strategies, value propositions and compelling features to translate to capture and proposal team
• Opportunity management including Pursue/No Pursue and Bib/No Bid decisions
• 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
• Drive all aspects of the capture successfully through the Win Plan process.
• Communicate resource needs and leverage resources assigned, collaborating with subject and technical matter experts, functional leads, and Program Managers.
• Serve Division Managers and Operation senior staff by managing call plan development, execution, and detailed reporting on, and tracking of, follow-up activities after plan execution.
• 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.
• Ensure timely delivery of compliant RFI, sources sought and proposal responses.
• Interact routinely with all levels of Division, Operation and Group management, infrastructure POCs, staff, and customers, and follow through on tasking.
• Brief capture status to senior management at specified milestones in the capture process, when material changes occur and as needed.
• Conduct after action reviews for all business opportunities, document lessons learned and identify necessary adjustments to capture technique, strategy, and actions.

• Bachelor's degree in a related field and 12+ years of related experience.
• Must have a demonstrated track record of designing and executing successful large captures and achieving profitable revenue growth in federal government contracting work.
• Must have reputation for being able to build high performance teams in a fast-paced environment.
• Candidate must have ten or more years of related recent experience with a track record of closing deals in federal market.
• A demonstrated sustained ability and reputation of winning large federal contracts. Portfolio of submittals and awards should include experience in all types of government contracts (firm-fixed price, T&M, cost-plus, etc.) and full array of capture strategies (major re-competes, incumbent capture, sole source, etc.).
• Must have excellent communication skills (both verbal and written) and highly effective interpersonal skills in order to carry-out daily interactions with technical leaders and business executives within the Corporation, Health & Civil Sector, and SIO and with customers, industry and subcontractors.
• Past experience that demonstrates the ability to contribute to fast-paced business leadership teams will be a plus.