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Capture Manager, Public Health
Location
United States
Posted
31 days ago
Salary
$130K - $160K / year
Seniority
Lead
Job Description
Capture Manager, Public Health
Lantana Consulting Group
• Responsible for leading and executing capture strategies that drive growth across Lantana Consulting Group’s federal public-health portfolio. • Focuses on identifying, shaping, and securing high-value opportunities with CDC, CMS, HHS, and other public-health organizations. • Works cross-functionally with business-development, delivery, proposal, and technical teams to position Lantana for success by aligning customer needs with the company’s capabilities in data, analytics, and health IT. • Take ownership of the full capture lifecycle, from early identification of opportunity and qualification through proposal submission and award. • Build and maintain strong relationships with key government stakeholders and industry partners, develop and execute win strategies, and translate market intelligence into actionable capture plans. • Work in close partnership with Business Development Managers to align capture priorities with pipeline strategy, refine account plans, and ensure a coordinated approach to customer engagement and opportunity shaping. • Collaborate closely with internal subject-matter experts to craft compelling, differentiated solutions. • Ensure disciplined pipeline management and adherence to growth objectives. • Serve as a trusted internal advisor to shape strategic priorities within the public-health market. • Collaborate extensively with Proposal Managers and proposal teams to translate capture strategies into compelling, compliant, and winning proposals. • Lead the development of win themes, discriminators, and key messaging; support color-team reviews; and ensure continuity between capture planning and proposal execution. • Serve as the bridge between business development, delivery, and proposal functions to ensure that insights, competitive intelligence, and customer understanding are effectively incorporated into proposal artifacts.
Job Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in business, public health, health informatics, or a related field
- A minimum of eight (8) years of experience in federal business development, capture management, or related roles
- Demonstrated success leading capture efforts for federal public-health opportunities (such as CDC, CMS, HHS, and NIH)
- Proven ability to develop and execute win strategies that result in contract awards
- Strong understanding of the federal procurement lifecycle (FAR, IDIQs, GWACs, BPAs, etc.)
- Experience managing cross-functional teams through the capture and proposal process
- Established network of contacts within the federal public-health ecosystem
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including experience contributing to proposals and client presentations
- Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.
Benefits
- flexible remote work arrangements
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