Description & Requirements
Maximus is hiring a Capture Manager to drive strategic growth in the state and local government health and human services space. In this dynamic, high-impact role, you’ll lead complex pursuit efforts from opportunity identification through program startup, develop innovative win strategies, analyze competitive landscapes, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver compelling, compliant proposals.
This is your chance to shape solutions that directly impact communities while advancing your career in a mission-driven environment.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Facilitate planning and capture activities for opportunities, including leading pursuit teams to develop winning solutions, cost proposals aligned with RFP requirements, and customer budgets.
- Work with sales to identify client pain points and needs.
- Evaluate the competitive landscape.
- Support the development of a compliant and compelling proposal.
- Develop capture plan and strategy throughout the opportunity lifecycle.
- Provide mentorship, oversight, deliverables, performance reviews, and feedback to junior staff.
- Lead pursuit team in utilizing historical data to develop a price-to-win and predictive win outcomes.
- Coordinate, collaborate and negotiate with operations, IT, pricing, and other departments to drive a compliant solution within the price to win.
- Interact with all levels of management, infrastructure and technology teams, HR, finance, consultants, and proposal resources and follow through on task assignments.
- Perform gap analyses of capabilities against customer requirements.
- Review proposal drafts to ensure alignment with planned solution model and identify improvements in messaging and graphics to better align with win strategies.
- Provide detailed reports on activities to leadership.
- Conduct after action reviews for all business opportunities to understand win/loss reasons, lessons document, and identify necessary adjustments to techniques, strategy, and actions.
- Bachelor’s degree in related field.
- 5-7 years of relevant professional experience required.
- Equivalent combination of education and experience considered in lieu of education.
