Pricing Strategy Manager

Key Responsibilities Strategic Pricing & Price-to-Win - Lead PTW analyses for strategic federal opportunities, evaluating customer budgets, acquisition strategies, incumbent performance, competitive landscape, and market conditions. - Develop pricing strategies, scenarios, and recommendations that balance win probability, profitability, and execution risk. - Partner with capture, technical, and operational teams to develop and evaluate Basis of Estimates (BOEs), ensuring staffing approaches, labor mixes, and assumptions support competitive, executable solutions. - Advise leadership on contract type, fee strategy, pricing structures, and risk mitigation approaches. - Present pricing recommendations and analyses to capture teams and executive leadership.

Competitive Intelligence & Market Analysis - Conduct competitor, incumbent, and market research to identify pricing trends, acquisition strategies, teaming relationships, and positioning opportunities. - Develop competitive assessments, win/loss analyses, and market intelligence that inform capture and pricing decisions. - Analyze federal spending trends, agency budgets, procurement forecasts, labor markets, and industry cost drivers. - Produce executive-level reports, dashboards, and insights to support business planning and growth strategies.

Proposal Support & Pricing Performance - Support bid/no-bid decisions, capture reviews, proposal development, and executive gate reviews. - Ensure pricing strategies are aligned with proposal solutioning, win themes, value propositions, and customer requirements. - Track and analyze pricing performance metrics, including margin attainment, pWin indicators, cost realism markers, subcontractor mix, labor competitiveness, and other key KPIs. - Assess pricing outcomes against assumptions and strategies, recommending adjustments to improve competitiveness, profitability, and execution performance. - Incorporate lessons learned from wins, losses, and program execution into future PTW and pricing strategies.

Process Improvement & Capability Development - Develop and refine pricing strategy, PTW, and competitive intelligence methodologies, processes, and governance. - Standardize tools, templates, reporting, and quality controls to improve effectiveness and consistency. - Evaluate new data sources, technologies, and analytical approaches to enhance pricing capabilities. - Train, mentor, and develop pricing personnel and cross-functional teams on PTW methodologies, competitive intelligence, and pricing best practices. - Promote a culture of analytical rigor, strategic thinking, and continuous improvement.

Required

Qualifications - Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Economics, or a related quantitative field. - 10+ years of federal government contracting experience, including at least 5 years in pricing strategy, PTW, competitive intelligence, capture support, or related functions. - Demonstrated success leading PTW analyses for DoD and Federal Civilian opportunities. - Proven expertise in competitive intelligence, market analysis, and strategic pricing within the federal contracting environment. - Strong knowledge of federal acquisition regulations, procurement processes, and contract types (FFP, CPFF, T&M, IDIQ, GWAC, BPA, etc.). - Experience supporting large, complex, and strategically significant pursuits. - Advanced analytical, financial modeling, and decision-support capabilities. - Excellent communication and presentation skills with the ability to influence senior leaders and stakeholders. - Experience building or leading pricing strategy and competitive intelligence functions.

Tools & Technologies - Federal market intelligence platforms such as GovWin IQ, GovTribe, Bloomberg Government (BGOV), HigherGov, SAM.gov, FPDS, and USAspending. - Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Excel, Power BI, and financial modeling tools. - Experience with CRM, proposal, and capture management platforms such as Salesforce, Microsoft Dynamics, Privia, Qvidian/Upland, or similar solutions. - Proficiency with Microsoft 365 tools, including Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, SharePoint, and Copilot.

Key Competencies - Price-to-Win (PTW) Strategy - Competitive Intelligence - Federal Market Analysis - Financial Modeling & Scenario Planning - Strategic Decision-Making - Executive Communication & Influence - Cross-Functional Collaboration - Process Improvement - Team Development & Mentorship Success Metrics - Increased win rates on strategic pursuits. - Accuracy and effectiveness of PTW recommendations. - Quality and utilization of competitive intelligence and market insights. - Adoption and effectiveness of pricing processes and methodologies. - Contribution to profitable growth and contract awards. - Development and readiness of pricing team personnel.

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