Opportunity Strategy Director

Peraton is looking for an Opportunity Strategy Director, that will support Corporate, and Sector, Priority pursuits with strategy development. The selected candidate should have a proven track record of internal and external stakeholder engagement leading to growth strategy development, successful opportunity capture, and associated business process optimization. The Opportunity Strategy Director will work closely with Peraton's Office of the Chief Growth Officer (CGO), Office of the Chief Innovation Officer, business sectors, functional support groups, and Corporate-Sector Priority opportunity pursuit teams to enhance Peraton's position for growth via key pipeline opportunities.

Responsibilities

Understanding corporate and sector growth objectives and operational needs
• Developing innovative opportunity strategies that leverage Peraton capabilities to fill emerging customer needs.
• Engaging business development, client, and technical leadership to develop strategies and shape future growth initiatives.
• Leading development of opportunity strategies through multi-sector and multi-functional working sessions
• Developing training and other mechanisms to institutionalize best practices across Peraton.
• Working with the Chief Growth Officer, Chief Innovation Officer, and sector leadership teams on growth strategy development and implementation at all business levels, primarily via the Capture and Proposal Color Team Framework
• Articulating needs, capabilities, and solutions equally well to technologists, program managers, business leaders, and customer decision-makers via discussions, presentations, and documented review feedback

Required

• Significant industry experience across the opportunity life cycle (business development, capture, proposal) with focus on innovative approaches to capturing new business and optimizing existing capabilities for growth.
• Experience in developing and leading business process improvement initiatives to advance operational performance, enable efficiency, and drive growth.
• Consultative experience focused on leading teams in developing strategies and solutions to a wide variety of customer issues and requirements.
• Entrepreneurial mindset demonstrated across various internal and customer-facing positions across business development and program delivery functions.
• BS degree and 16+ yrs; a Masters and 14+ yrs, or PhD and 10+ yrs; significant experience can be in lieu of degree.
• Ten or more years of experience conveying technical and business information to a variety of internal and external audiences.
• Active Top Secret security clearance

Desired

• Experience with US Government Department of Defense (DoD) customers
• Proven record of leading, winning, and executing large-scale projects and contracts
• Active Top Secret security clearance with Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) access
• 5-years as a Capture Manager leading - delivering Corporate Priority pursuits

Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world's leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees do the can't be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. Visit peraton.com to learn how we're keeping people around the world safe and secure.