Staff Capture Manager - Corporate Growth
- Location
- Layton, Utah, United States
- Work mode
- On-site
- Employment type
- Full-time
About the job
Government Requirements Identification and Strategic Opportunity Shaping Activities:
• Identify emerging DoD mission requirements, capability gaps, modernization initiatives, sustainment challenges, and other strategic opportunities aligned with KIHOMAC capabilities
- Identify emerging DoD mission requirements, capability gaps, modernization initiatives, sustainment challenges, and other strategic opportunities aligned with KIHOMAC capabilities
- Research and understand how Government requirements originate, evolve, receive approval, and transition into funded acquisition programs
- Engage Government program offices, operational commands, requirements organizations, acquisition stakeholders, and technical authorities to understand mission needs, acquisition objectives, and anticipated requirements
- Develop and execute strategies to appropriately influence Government requirements, acquisition approaches, and technical solutions through authorized industry engagement before solicitation release
- Identify opportunities to introduce KIHOMAC technical capabilities, alternative solutions, and innovative acquisition approaches that address Government mission requirements
- Participate in RFIs, sources-sought responses, industry days, technical exchanges, capability demonstrations, and other pre-solicitation activities to shape opportunities and improve KIHOMAC's competitive position
- Identify opportunities where early customer engagement and technical collaboration can establish meaningful competitive discriminators
- Develop and maintain long-term opportunity-shaping strategies for major Government programs and anticipated procurements
• Analyze DoD acquisition processes, program structures, funding sources, procurement strategies, and anticipated acquisition schedules to identify future opportunities
- Analyze DoD acquisition processes, program structures, funding sources, procurement strategies, and anticipated acquisition schedules to identify future opportunities
- Monitor defense budgets, POM/FYDP planning, Congressional appropriations, and agency acquisition forecasts to identify emerging and funded requirements
- Understand the relationships among Government operational requirements, program planning, funding availability, acquisition strategy, and contracting execution
- Evaluate acquisition pathways, contract vehicles, competition structures, and source-selection approaches to determine KIHOMAC's competitive position
- Identify acquisition risks, funding uncertainties, program dependencies, and potential changes affecting opportunity timing or viability
- Develop recommendations for positioning KIHOMAC as a prime contractor, subcontractor, or strategic partner based on acquisition structure, organizational capabilities, and competitive conditions
- Translate Government acquisition intelligence into actionable corporate growth strategies and capture investment recommendations
• Personally lead assigned high-value, complex Federal Government capture opportunities from early identification and qualification through proposal submission and contract award
- Personally lead assigned high-value, complex Federal Government capture opportunities from early identification and qualification through proposal submission and contract award
- Develop and execute comprehensive capture plans addressing customer engagement, acquisition strategy, competitive positioning, technical solutions, teaming, pricing, and win strategy
- Establish capture objectives, milestones, resource requirements, investment priorities, and measurable actions to improve competitive positioning
- Lead multi-year capture campaigns for major defense programs and strategic contract opportunities.
- Assess opportunity maturity, competitive position, acquisition readiness, and PWIN to support corporate investment decisions
- Identify and resolve strategic gaps in customer intimacy, technical capability, past performance, teaming, and competitive positioning
- Maintain accountability for capture strategy, execution, and readiness across assigned opportunities.
- Recommend continued investment, corrective actions, teaming alternatives, or No-Go decisions based on objective assessments
- Ensure capture activities establish favorable competitive conditions well before formal solicitation release
• Develop and execute strategic customer engagement plans focused on Government decision-makers, requirements stakeholders, acquisition personnel, technical authorities, and program leadership
- Develop and execute strategic customer engagement plans focused on Government decision-makers, requirements stakeholders, acquisition personnel, technical authorities, and program leadership
- Establish and maintain productive relationships with Government customers and industry partners to improve understanding of mission needs and future requirements
- Research and analyze incumbents, competitors, acquisition history, program priorities, Government budgets, and market conditions
- Lead competitive intelligence assessments, Black Hat reviews, and other structured analyses to identify competitor positioning, strengths, weaknesses, and likely strategies
- Identify customer priorities, evaluation drivers, mission needs, and potential technical or business discriminators
- Develop differentiated win strategies, value propositions, and competitive approaches that align KIHOMAC capabilities with Government objectives
- Translate customer and competitive intelligence into specific capture actions that measurably improve PWIN
• Identify and qualify high-value Federal Government opportunities using Government budget documents, acquisition forecasts, SAM.gov, GovWin, agency engagement, industry intelligence, and other sources
- Identify and qualify high-value Federal Government opportunities using Government budget documents, acquisition forecasts, SAM.gov, GovWin, agency engagement, industry intelligence, and other sources
- Develop a forward-looking pipeline of strategic opportunities aligned with KIHOMAC's long-term growth objectives
- Emphasize early-stage opportunities where KIHOMAC has sufficient time to influence requirements, develop customer relationships, establish teaming strategies, and improve competitive positioning
- Maintain accurate opportunity assessments, including acquisition timing, anticipated funding, customer engagement, competitive intelligence, PWIN, capture milestones, and resource requirements
- Recommend prioritization of capture investments based on strategic value, contract potential, competitive position, and likelihood of award
- Collaborate with Business Development and corporate leadership to identify opportunities for expansion into larger and more complex Government programs
• Identify capability, capacity, past-performance, and customer-access gaps affecting KIHOMAC's ability to pursue major contract opportunities
- Identify capability, capacity, past-performance, and customer-access gaps affecting KIHOMAC's ability to pursue major contract opportunities
- Develop Make/Buy/Team strategies supporting prime contractor positioning and competitive differentiation.
- Identify and evaluate strategic teammates, defense primes, OEMs, technology providers, and specialized subcontractors
- Develop teaming strategies that improve technical credibility, customer access, past performance, contract eligibility, and competitive position
- Evaluate potential teaming structures, workshare arrangements, exclusivity considerations, and long-term strategic value
- Coordinate with Contracts and corporate leadership in developing NDAs, teaming agreements, and other capture-related agreements
• Lead cross-functional development of differentiated, technically credible, and executable solutions responsive to Government mission requirements
- Lead cross-functional development of differentiated, technically credible, and executable solutions responsive to Government mission requirements
- Collaborate with Engineering, Manufacturing, Operations, Contracts, Pricing, and Finance to develop technical, management, staffing, transition, production, and sustainment approaches
- Evaluate proposed solutions against Government requirements, competitive alternatives, acquisition constraints, execution risk, and customer value
- Identify opportunities to improve competitiveness through technical innovation, manufacturing efficiency, acquisition approaches, teaming, or alternative solutions
- Ensure proposed solutions balance competitive pricing, technical performance, schedule, risk, and sustainable profitability
• Prepare and lead executive gate reviews for assigned strategic capture opportunities
- Prepare and lead executive gate reviews for assigned strategic capture opportunities
- Present Government requirements analysis, acquisition strategies, budget and funding assessments, customer intelligence, competitive positioning, teaming strategies, technical solutions, PTW, PWIN, risks, and recommended actions
- Provide objective recommendations regarding pursuit investment, prime/subcontractor positioning, strategic teaming, and Go/No-Go decisions
- Identify deficiencies in capture maturity and establish corrective actions before subsequent reviews.
- Communicate significant changes in Government requirements, funding, acquisition strategies, competitive conditions, or PWIN to corporate leadership
- Provide senior leadership with actionable strategic intelligence supporting corporate growth decisions
• Establish competitive positioning, win strategy, technical solution direction, and proposal strategy prior to solicitation release to the greatest extent practical
- Establish competitive positioning, win strategy, technical solution direction, and proposal strategy prior to solicitation release to the greatest extent practical
- Coordinate with Proposal Management to ensure an effective transition from strategic capture into formal proposal development
- Provide documented customer intelligence, requirements analysis, competitive assessments, acquisition strategy, win themes, discriminators, teaming arrangements, and pricing strategies
- Support development of proposal outlines, storyboards, executive summaries, technical and management approaches, and other strategic proposal content
- Participate in Black Hat, Pink/Red/Gold Team, solution, and executive reviews as appropriate
- Maintain accountability for capture strategy throughout proposal development and ensure the final submission reflects the approved competitive approach
• Support development and execution of corporate growth strategies focused on expanding KIHOMAC's participation in larger DoD programs and major contract opportunities
- Support development and execution of corporate growth strategies focused on expanding KIHOMAC's participation in larger DoD programs and major contract opportunities
- Establish and maintain relationships with Government acquisition organizations, program offices, defense primes, OEMs, and strategic industry partners
- Identify opportunities to leverage KIHOMAC's engineering, manufacturing, integration, and sustainment capabilities to address emerging Government requirements
- Participate in strategic customer meetings, industry engagements, acquisition events, technical exchanges, and capability presentations
- Collaborate with executive leadership and business-area leaders to evaluate new markets, acquisition pathways, and long-term growth opportunities
- Support continuous improvement of corporate capture methodologies, opportunity qualification, customer engagement, competitive analysis, and executive decision-making
- Capture and communicate lessons learned following major pursuits and award decisions
• Identify and develop a qualified pipeline of large, strategically significant DoD and Federal Government opportunities • Demonstrate measurable progress in shaping opportunities and improving competitive positioning prior to solicitation release • Establish productive engagement with Government requirements, program management, acquisition, and technical stakeholders • Identify emerging requirements and anticipated funding early enough to support effective capture strategies. • Develop comprehensive, actionable capture plans for major Government pursuits • Improve PWIN through customer engagement, competitive intelligence, technical differentiation, acquisition positioning, and strategic teaming • Provide objective, decision-ready assessments supporting capture investment and Go/No-Go decisions • Expand KIHOMAC's ability to compete as a prime contractor or significant strategic teammate on larger Government programs • Ensure effective coordination across Business Development, Engineering, Operations, Contracts, Pricing, Finance, and Proposal Management • Successfully transition mature strategic captures into competitive proposals • Contribute to improved contract win rates, larger contract awards, and sustainable long-term corporate growth • Other duties as assigned Requirements Qualifications: Education/Training:
- Bachelors Degree in Business, Engineeri
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Posted 13 Oct 2026 · checked 29 Oct 2026 · Report this job