Senior Business Development Specialist

SSAI seeks a Senior Business Development Specialist to play a key role in driving revenue growth and expanding the company's customer base. This role involves identifying new business opportunities, nurturing client relationships, and developing strategic partnerships. The successful candidate will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to drive business success and meet organizational goals.

Responsibilities

• Identify and track new federal contract opportunities using SAM.gov, GovWin, agency forecasts, and customer engagement
• Maintain and manage the company's business development pipeline and opportunity tracking tools
• Support capture activities including win strategy development, competitor research, and teaming outreach
• Assist with creation of capture plans, customer profiles, and call plans
• Coordinate communication with teaming partners, subcontractors, and internal stakeholders
• Support all phases of proposal development for RFIs, RFQs, and RFPs
• Draft and edit proposal sections such as executive summaries, past performance, management plans, staffing plans, and technical narratives
• Coordinate inputs from technical SMEs, leadership, and subcontractors
• Ensure proposal compliance with RFP instructions, formatting, and federal acquisition requirements
• Track proposal schedules, deadlines, and deliverables to ensure on-time, high-quality submissions
• Maintain and update capability statements, past performance write-ups, resumes, and corporate boilerplate
• Support preparation of materials for industry days, customer meetings, and teaming events.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree (B.A) and a minimum of 5 years of experience supporting federal business development, capture, or proposal efforts
• Experience supporting proposals for DoD, NASA, or civilian federal agencies
• Strong writing, editing, and document management skills
• Familiarity with the federal acquisition lifecycle from opportunity identification through contract award
• Ability to manage multiple deadlines in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment
• Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience working in a small or mid-size federal contracting environment
• Experience using federal opportunity tools such as GovWin, SAM.gov, or similar platforms
• Understanding of Systems Engineering, IT, or technical services contracting
• Experience supporting IDIQs, task orders, or SBIR/STTR programs
• Familiarity with proposal best practices, compliance matrices, and color team reviews

Physical Requirements: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, and use hands to touch, handle or feel objects, tools or controls. The employee frequently is required to talk and hear and occasionally required to reach with hands and arms and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. Must regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds, and occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus.