Vice President of Capture and Growth

Job Description

• Demonstrated success in growing DoD/IC business
• Grow and qualify the opportunity pipeline through timely identification of new business opportunities by leveraging current technologies, customer intimacies, and inter and intra-company collaboration.
• Support development of growth plans to ensure alignment with strategic goals.
• Develop internal cross-organizational relationships and drive new growth through collaboration with the other Sectors.
• Obtain market intelligence and competitive data pertaining to potential targeted pursuits and develop marketing strategies that maximize the value of that intelligence.
• Participate as a thought leader in bid decisions, gate reviews and the development of cost strategies.
• Conduct customer visits and perform research to understand current and emerging customer needs and requirements.
• Establish, build, and maintain customer relationships and assess competitor capabilities aligned to specific customers across a diverse business portfolio.

Proposal Writing & Development

• Develop high-quality, compliant written content across all proposal volumes, including technical, management, transition, staffing, and past performance.
• Work with technical SMEs, program managers, and solution architects to articulate complex solutions for cyber, ISR, data science, and secure software engineering programs.
• Tailor messaging to resonate with DoD and IC mission priorities, security considerations, and CONOPS.

Capture Strategy Support

• Collaborate with Capture Managers to shape win strategies, customer messaging, and value propositions aligned with mission needs.
• Assist in Black Hat/Blue Team reviews, competitive assessments, and development of themes, features, and benefits.
• Support early-phase capture deliverables such as capabilities statements, white papers, and customer briefings.

Compliance & Proposal Architecture

• Ensure full compliance with solicitation instructions (Sections L & M), evaluation criteria, and agency-specific templates (e.g., DIA, NGA, NSA).
• Organize and structure proposal responses for clarity, technical precision, and maximum evaluability.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Interface with contracts, pricing, HR, and security teams to gather proposal inputs.
• Lead writing efforts through Pink/Red/Gold reviews, incorporating reviewer feedback and maintaining version control.
• Contribute to lessons learned sessions and proposal process improvement.

Content Management

• Maintain a repository of reusable, security-cleared proposal content aligned with cleared labor categories and DoD/IC-specific requirements.
• Support the creation of boilerplate for CDRLs, RMF narratives, and cleared staffing plans.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and 20+ years of relevant experience. Additional experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
• Proven success with establishing and executing a pipeline of opportunities across the full life cycle of the business acquisition process from opportunity concept through pursuit, winning, and program startup.
• Highly effective communicator to all levels within the company and externally with clients.
• A minimum of 14 years of leadership experience working in the IC, defense, government services and/or other professional services executing all aspects of business development, program capture, planning, and execution
• Success leading opportunity captures >$100 million including: developing overall win strategy, shaping strategies with customers, developing team strategies, understanding pricing, and assisting in developing winning price.
• Ability to identify, establish and use important customer relationships with senior level officials and program stakeholders
• Knowledge of Government contracting and current acquisition trends and customer buying behaviors
• Knowledge of competitors and ability to model competitor behaviors in the market.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills; experience presenting to senior executives, peers, and customers.
• Management of Pipeline in excess of $500M in opportunities
• Demonstrated capacity to stay on top of current trends, issues, and technologies in mission areas through participation in industry groups and conferences.
• Proven track record of teaming and developing mutually beneficial partner relationships with peers and other vendors.
• Excellent business acumen; strong understanding of Federal procurement, contracting, and financial rules and regulations.
• Able to effectively diagnose client needs, propose and close solutions that have measurable and positive business impact.
• Manage the sales cycle using weekly pipeline and account reviews to include all stakeholders.
• Establish, build, and maintain positive, professional relationships and interaction at all decision levels.
• Active Top Secret/SCI security clearance.

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with Shipley or Lohfeld methodologies.
• Experience with proposal development tools (e.g., SharePoint, RFPIO, Qvidian).
• Prior work with capture tools like GovWin, SAM.gov, or internal BD pipelines.

Pay & Benefit Highlights

Compensation

• Above market fixed salary or hourly pay.
• Up to $10,000 bonus for each referral.
• Additional bonuses for exceptional performance, assisting with business development and company growth.

Health

• 100% paid premiums for health insurance. Choose from over 80 gold-level medical plans from Aetna, CareFirst, Kaiser and UnitedHealthcare. Choose from PPO, EPO, POS, HMO, and HSA-compatible.
• HSA and FSA options.
• 100% paid premiums for dental insurance.
• 100% paid premiums for vision insurance.

Income Protection

• 100% paid premiums for short-term disability.
• 100% paid premiums for long-term disability.
• 100% paid premiums for accidental death & dismemberment.
• 100% paid premiums for life insurance with a $200,000 max benefit.

Retirement

• 8% company contribution to 401k with immediate vesting.
• 401k pre-tax and Roth options.

Leave

• Up to 20 days of flexible paid time off (PTO).
• 11 days of paid floating holidays.

Work-Life Balance

• Flexible work schedules including flex time and compressed work period.
• Remote work including partial or fully remote (contract and project-dependent).

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Equal Opportunity Employer

Base-2 Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.