SMX is a mission-oriented company seeking a Business Development Manager to grow high-visibility, mission-focused technologies for DoD and IC customers. The role involves identifying, qualifying, and capturing government acquisitions while driving capture and proposal readiness for the Space and Intel team.
Responsibilities:
- Perform market analysis, strategic business planning, capture strategy/solution development, customer engagement and support proposal responses
- This position will include oversight of customer contact and positioning, management of your opportunity pipeline, forecasting, and capture management
- Comfortable working with Business Development, Financial, Proposal, Product, Contracts, and Engineering. Keeps progress updated in CRM (Salesforce)
- Work in a remote office setting and communicate via phone and Teams for virtual meetings and travel to meet customers and key personnel for in person meetings
- Travel to trade conferences and shows to represent the company in front of industry partners and customers
- Research Govwin, NXTLS, Deltek. OUSD and customer sites to find customer information and budget information to build and maintain sales pipeline
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree and a minimum 6+ years combined experience with any of the following: strategic capture, business development, proposal development, and/or solutions development
- Minimum 4+ years in DOD or Intel Community
- Understanding of the full business development lifecycle competitive landscape and existing contracts within one or multiple of the following markets: IC, Space Domain Awareness, Missile Defense Agency, COCOMs, or Space Force
- Prior experience with structured Business Development and Capture Methodologies
- Successful experience interacting with and briefing senior government and industry acquisition officials. Includes ability to build and deliver technical briefs with Subject matter expert's support
- Proactive, organized, polished presentation skills with ability to build trusting relationships across industry
- Experience joining winning teams as a sub, nontraditional or as a prime, as the primary face of the company
- Key driver of RFI's, RFQ's, or Capability based response processes
- Strong communication and presentation skills, while maintaining a positive attitude, and strong drive for results with a sense of urgency
- Collaborative and proactive work across SMX teams to achieve broader company growth objectives and provide a strong foundation for customer success during execution
- Proven ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment demonstrating teamwork, innovation and excellence. Interacts well with Engineering and Subject Matter Experts within the company and across partnerships
- Strong existing networking of contacts within one of the following markets: Intel Community, Space Defense Agency, Missile Defense Agency, COCOMs, or Space Force
- Builds networks and strategic partnerships quickly
- Ability to learn new technologies and brief them to new customer groups
- Secret and or TS/SCI Clearance Active or held in the past, strongly encouraged to apply
- Veterans or Intelligence Community Prior service strongly encouraged to apply