Business Development Leader Navy / USMC
Introduction
A career in IBM Consulting is rooted by long-term relationships and close collaboration with clients across the globe.You'll work with visionaries across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Your ability to accelerate impact and make meaningful change for your clients is enabled by our strategic partner ecosystem and our robust technology platforms across the IBM portfolio; including Software and Red Hat.Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation to success in IBM Consulting. In your role, you'll be encouraged to challenge the norm, investigate ideas outside of your role, and come up with creative solutions resulting in ground breaking impact for a wide network of clients. Our culture of evolution and empathy centers on long-term career growth and development opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience.
Your role and responsibilities
As an experienced Business Development Leader at IBM, you will lead the identification of and support the qualification and bid of opportunities to secure new contract awards within the U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) and US Navy. The successful candidate will be responsible for building an opportunity pipeline, supporting responses to client requests for information (RFI) and demonstrations, and leading the business development content for capture plans to support opportunity qualification and proposal development. The ideal candidate must be experienced in performing business development activities across the USMC enterprise. These activities include: registering and updating opportunities in the customer relationship management tool and maintaining good pipeline hygiene; building opportunity-specific client call plans; developing value propositions based on client goals and IBM offerings; following and staying abreast of industry trends to improve IBM's competitive positioning; attending client-related expos/industry days/vendor days and delivering call reports to the Navy/Marine Corps account team; and working closely with the Navy/Marine Corps account team, extended go-to-market team, and strategic sales team to progress deals through the opportunity pipeline requiring the successful candidate to possess solid collaboration, communication, and inter-personal skills. Further, the ideal candidate will also have demonstrated success in growing pipeline and supporting the capture of new contracts in the $25 million to $500 million range or larger.
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Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise
At least 10 years' experience selling and/or delivering professional services and IT-related solutions to the USMC/USN enterprise
Demonstrated experience in and knowledge of the federal/DoD market and competitor behaviors
At least 5 years' experience in client relationship management, up to and including executive offices, in DoD/Navy/Marine Corps
At least 5 years' experience in demonstrated knowledge of the Federal/DoD procurement process
Proven track record building an opportunity pipeline and supporting the capture of $25M+ business opportunities in DoD/Navy/Marine Corps
Strong business acumen, deep technical/functional domain expertise, and solid communication skills
The ability to obtain and maintain a security clearance from the US Federal government
Preferred technical and professional experience
• At least 10 years' experience in analytical and creative problem-solving skills on DoD Navy/Marine Corps programs, accounts, and/or capture/proposal efforts
• At least 10 years' successful professional experience working for, in, or on DoD/Navy/Marine Corps programs, accounts, and/or capture/proposal efforts
• Understanding of IT, hybrid cloud, logistics/supply chain, and AI/analytics services offerings
• Domain specific expertise in DoD/Navy/Marine Corps acquisition, information warfare, cybersecurity, data science and analytics, research & development, supply chain, or finance are desirable
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The compensation range and benefits for this position are based on a full-time schedule for a full calendar year. The salary will vary depending on your job-related skills, experience and location. Pay increment and frequency of pay will be in accordance with employment classification and applicable laws. For part time roles, your compensation and benefits will be adjusted to reflect your hours. Benefits may be pro-rated for those who start working during the calendar year.
This position is eligible for participation in an IBM Sales Incentive plan. Actual incentive opportunity will be based on performance and the eligible Target Incentive, as addressed in the applicable plan, all of which is subject to change. The compensation range listed for this position is the IBM Reference Salary that is used when you are not actively participating in a sales plan. Your actual base pay plus incentive opportunity will be determined by the Incentive Plan assigned to you.
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