Capture Manager

Description

Position Title: Capture Manager
Location: Tampa, FL

Responsibilities Include:

• Develop, evolve, and mature strategic growth plans and identify promising, addressable new business opportunities in the assigned market segment.
• Plan, direct, coordinate and control all activities related to assigned capture efforts, including accountability of all phases of capture management until contract award. May manage large complex capture efforts.
• Develop a capture plan which includes a description and analysis of the opportunity, customer, competition, team, pursuit/win strategy, pricing strategy, and capture resource needs, with an integrated action/contact plan.
• Focus on customer-oriented solutions, forming a competitive team and coordinating the integration of subject matter experts and functions required to position the team and maximize probability of win.
• Prepare capture team staffing plan and overall resource basis of estimate.
• Develop and implement customer contact plan across all levels of customers.
• Identify customer’s key issues, concerns and “hot buttons” through direct customer contact leveraging Business Development and Business Area resources.
• Lead the Capture and Proposal Business Decision Gate reviews for all pursuits assigned.
• Ensure effective and efficient implementation of proven best practices for activities such as strategy workshops/reviews, proposal planning, proposal development/reviews, and proposal production.
• Lead win strategy, competitive assessment, and pricing strategy workshops and prepare/complete strategic action plans, Return on Investments, risk assessments.
• Ensure winning technical, management, price, and past performance approaches are developed by the capture team.
• Conduct thorough draft/final Request for Proposal analyses and develop effective questions for customer.
• Provide guidance to Proposal Manager in development and execution of a Proposal Management Plan, including technical, management, pricing, and past performance/corporate experience.
• Interact with and provide guidance to Proposal Manager on the entire proposal/orals process to ensure well-written, compliant, and competitive volumes/slides incorporating win themes, discriminators, and program insights.
• Ensure timely selection and participation in pursuit process of key personnel for program implementation and management.
• Establish the company as preferred contractor prior to release of Request for Proposal through advertising and other communication means.
• Develop and manage the Capture Budget, including the sales and marketing and the bid and proposal budgets, updating as required.
• Develop effective teaming strategies, including negotiation of teaming agreements.
• Ensure data is entered and updated in relevant business development information system(s).
• Support tradeshows and general customer outreach efforts as appropriate.
• Support transition to Program Manager of a contract win to contract execution.

Qualifications

• 5 years’ experience in Government contract acquisition and implementation
• Knowledge of Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) and GSA compliance requirements
• Proven experience in reading and analyzing Federal government RFPs, creating proposal outlines and schedules, managing the activities of writers, storyboard development and re-writing material under tight deadline constraints.
• Strong oral and written communication skills.
• Ability to work collegially under strict deadline pressure and handle multiple work assignments.
• Excellent organizational, planning, and prioritization skills.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• High level of proficiency in MS Office Applications, including SharePoint, Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook

Desired Qualifications:

• Defense Acquisition Workforce Improvement Act (DAWIA) Level II or Federal Acquisition Certification – Contracting (FAC-C) certification preferred