Senior Business Development Manager - US Navy, C5ISR Systems

The Engineering, Integration and Operations of the Leidos National Security Sector is seeking an energetic Senior Business Development Manager to lead the Business Development (BD) US Navy.

The Senior 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 C5ISR systems; communications in contested areas; cyber security, cloud, resiliency to support multi-domain and distributed operation in contested environment. Experience in Mission Software Networks, Information Technology and/or Digital Transformation, system modernization and sustainment is highly desired. 

BDM will develop and execute the marketing and BD strategy for the 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.  

Successful candidates will have the ability to conceptualize a vision for winning, to develop strategy and BD capture plans that implement the vision, and, to translate the strategy into win themes. The ability to use quantitative and qualitative analysis to develop a hypothesized approach to solutions and opportunity development is highly desired.

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.

Primary Responsibilities:

• 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 refine the division strategy and shape a balanced portfolio.
• Lead and participate in the identification, qualification and pursuit of strategic business opportunities, and opportunities greater than $50M in value.
• Assign and optimize BD and capture 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.
• Participate as a thought leader in bid decisions, gate reviews and the development of cost strategies.
• Conduct customer visits and articulate current and emerging customer needs and requirements.
• Actively participate in capture activities, to include opportunity gate reviews, black hat sessions, collaboration and workshop sessions, proposal reviews 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.
• Own and conduct monthly detailed pipeline reviews with Senior leadership.
• Attend tradeshows and execute customer call plans post tradeshows.

Basic Qualifications:

• Requires a BA degree in a technical field and 15+ years of prior relevant experience or Masters with 8+ years of prior relevant experience.
• 5+ years of BD leadership experience in defense (specifically US Navy), security, or government services
• Strategic thinker with long term business growth focus
• Demonstrated successes in leading $25M+ opportunities from identification through proposal submissions
• Experience managing budgets of $5M+
• Demonstrated success in leading and growing DoD services business
• Ability to identify, establish and use important customer relationships with senior level officials and program s