Description & Requirements
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Conduct strategic research on competitors utilizing open source intelligence and subscription databases.
- Set direction of the Federal Pricing Strategy by developing, implementing and directing the PTW process for Maximus Federal.
- Perform competitive assessments and PTW analyses.
- Develop competitor profile write-ups and anticipated bid strategies for specific opportunities
- Develop, maintain, and update competitor databases.
- Prepare materials to support/facilitate Black Hat reviews, PTW analysis, and competitive intelligence reviews.
- Provide strategic and thought leadership to Federal Pricing Team in areas of PTW and CI.
- Develop high level work breakdown structure (WBS) that aids development of solution and PTW strategies.
- Develop roadmap for performing Analytical Competitive Intelligence based on data collected from recent award decisions.
- Design analytical methods to develop agency-specific and competitor-specific pricing benchmark.
- Collect and analyze data on government customer budgets, spending, and industry benchmarks to support top-down PTW analysis.
- Collect and analyze competitor cost/price data to support bottom-up PTW analysis.
- Guide Business Development and Capture teams to develop pricing strategies.
- At least 15 years of broad and varied experience that demonstrates a high level of business acumen, such as price to win, pricing analysis, working on competitive proposal teams with experience in federal services.
- At least 10 years of related experience supporting PTW and competitive intelligence functions in the government contracting industry, preferably covering a range of services that includes IT services, consulting services, professional services, and business process outsourcing and contact center services.
- Direct experience with the Price to Win and Competitive Intelligence process.
- Knowledge of federal pricing regulations and compliance issues (FAR, CAS, , etc.).
- Ability to perform hands-on analysis at micro-level and presenting findings to executive management.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, deadline driven environment delivering results and quality services.
- Proven record of successfully developing solutions to a variety of complex problems and completing tasks requiring considerable judgement and initiative.
- Experience with different pricing structures including fixed price, cost plus, time and material, and hybrid approaches.
- Experience in open-source research, analysis, and data synthesis.
- Knowledge of federal pricing regulations and compliance issues (FAR, CAS, TINA, etc.) is a must
- Demonstrated ability to present critical thinking positions, accept challenges to assumptions, and offer alternatives.
- Ability to work cooperatively with across teams and organizations, and to operate under challenging timelines.
- Strong organizational, verbal, written, analytical, problem solving, teamwork and communication skills required, including the ability to communicate across a range levels of seniority levels ranging from analyst to C-Suite.
- Team player and builder, receptive to ideas from others. Shares information and keeps team members and partners informed.
- Works effectively with others to identify and resolve issues. Excellent interpersonal skills and an ability to interact successfully with a diverse work force.