Description & Requirements
Are you experienced in capture management, government contracting, and leading teams and interested in an exciting opportunity? Are you seeking a fast-paced, high-impact position with fellow mission-driven, strategic thinkers? Maximus has an exciting opportunity for a Capture Manager position on the U.S. Services Business Development Capture team.
Primary responsibilities include working with Business Development and Operations teams and other solution partners to deliver major Health and Human Services proposals to State Government clients throughout the US. This position balances multiple priorities and projects and leads teams to develop winning solutions and proposals. This position requires strategic thinking, excellent organizational and leadership skills, and experience in capture management and government contracting.
Maximus is dedicated to supporting individual career growth in an environment that puts the individuals we serve at the center of all we do. We offer a varied and interesting diversity of clients and projects with an opportunity to learn new things every day. We'd love you to join our team of friendly, hard-working, dedicated, and collaborative professionals. Our ideal candidate is seeking challenging work and the opportunity to make a difference.
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.
Minimum Requirements
Minimum Requirements:
- 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.
Proposal Capture experience in State & Local Government procurement is preferred.
EEO Statement
Active military service members, their spouses, and veteran candidates often embody the core competencies Maximus deems essential, and bring a resiliency and dependability that greatly enhances our workforce. We recognize your unique skills and experiences, and want to provide you with a career path that allows you to continue making a difference for our country. We're proud of our connections to organizations dedicated to serving veterans and their families. If you are transitioning from military to civilian life, have prior service, are a retired veteran or a member of the National Guard or Reserves, or a spouse of an active military service member, we have challenging and rewarding career opportunities available for you. A committed and diverse workforce is our most important resource. Maximus is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. Maximus provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status or disabled status.
Pay Transparency
Maximus compensation is based on various factors including but not limited to job location, a candidate's education, training, experience, expected quality and quantity of work, required travel (if any), external market and internal value analysis including seniority and merit systems, as well as internal pay alignment. Annual salary is just one component of Maximus's total compensation package. Other rewards may include short- and long-term incentives as well as program-specific awards. Additionally, Maximus provides a variety of benefits to employees, including health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, a retirement savings plan, paid holidays and paid time off. Compensation ranges may differ based on contract value but will be commensurate with job duties and relevant work experience. An applicant's salary history will not be used in determining compensation. Maximus will comply with regulatory minimum wage rates and exempt salary thresholds in all instances.
