DHS Business Development Senior Manager/Director

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DHS Business Development Senior Manager/Director

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We are a company of innovators, thinkers, creators, explorers, and dreamers. But we all share one goal: to improve the world responsibly and safely.

The DHS BD position at KBR will serve as a front-end Business Development customer focused lead within KBR’s business development organization focused specifically on DHS mission and technology programs.The Mission Technology Solutions Business Development Lead will be responsible for building relationships with the government, creating a focused pipeline, and winning new business. The BD Lead will engage with federal civilian customers and follow the KBR BD Processes. The BD Leader will drive large, prime single award opportunities and top pursuits ranging from $50M to $1 billion. Agency focus will include CISA, USCIS, TSA, HQ, USCG, CBP, and ICE.

Travel is required to KBR facilities and customer locations.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the management and execution of the full BD life-cycle process across pursuits and proposals
• Routinely build pipeline and advance winnable opportunities with the average size of $200M+ solicitation pursuits at various stages of the capture lifecycle primarily in the federal civilian mission and technology programs.
• Engage the customer, shape future procurements, design a winning strategy, assist in developing a capture plan that implements the strategy and translates into win themes.
• Ensure the voice of the customer is contained in the content throughout the capture process.
• Plan, lead, execute BD activities to include:
  • Leading the development of a healthy pipeline of new winnable opportunities
  • Qualify and assess the “win-ability” of new opportunities and move them through the milestone process
  • Develop a plan for securing knowledge and understanding of the customer’s requirements, challenges, issues, and needs during the capture phase and lead solutioning/planning sessions with the capture team
  • Coordinate meetings with customers, competitors, clients, and teammates to develop market insight on requirements, acquisition strategy, acquisition timing, and contract vehicle choices
  • Lead milestone/gate reviews, black hat sessions, solution sessions, blue teams, and support proposal reviews
  • Lead the development and submission of white papers, RFI responses, and other customer engagement activities.
  • Apply KBR BD best practices to each pursuit, including customer engagement, solution and win theme development
  • Brief pipeline and opportunity status to senior management at specified milestones
  • Create winning solutions
  • Win large new business programs

Basic Qualifications

• Minimum 15 years of experience with demonstrated success in business development and capture of contracts valued greater than $200M
• Bachelor’s degree
• Demonstrated ability to work with senior business and government leaders and to provide leadership within the workplace
• Pre-existing knowledge and relationships with federal civilian agencies with a proven track records of winning single award programs as a prime.
• An ability to win new business and drive profitable financial outcomes
• Proven success in the following discipline(s) within Fed Civ: Business development, opportunity identification and qualification,