Description & Requirements
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.
| - Minimum of 5 years of related experience in capture, business development, proposal development, or project management - Required |
| - Successful track record of capture management and/or management for US state/local government organizations specifically in Health and Human Services (such as Medicaid, Health Insurance Exchanges, SNAP, TANF, and CHIP) is highly preferred |
| - Experience working in a matrixed environment, collaborating with business development, legal, operations, IT, human resources, implementation, finance, and other business units to develop comprehensive, winning solutions |
| - Working knowledge of US state/local government procurement practices |
| - Experience working with remote teams is preferred |
| - Experience in operations (such as running call centers or account management) is a plus |
| - Must demonstrate exceptional decision-making, analytical, and presentation skills |
| - Must have strong interpersonal skills with the ability to manage deadlines, take initiative, and research and understand business practices and processes |
| - Strong leadership, presentation, and project management skills are required |
| - Proven track record in dealing with all levels of management |
| - Strong writing and communication skills #HumanServices #LI-Remote |
