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Capture Executive

Role overview

Qualifications

  • 3+ years of experience in capture, business development, multi-team proposal management, sales, account planning, or a related field is preferred
  • Demonstrated success leading complex, high-value, high-risk, or strategically important pursuits
  • Strong leadership, strategic thinking, facilitation, communication, organization, and follow-through
  • Proficiency with CRM systems and standard business and collaboration tools

Responsibilities

  • Lead capture planning and execution for the company's most complex, high-value, high-risk, or strategically important pursuits
  • Advise senior leaders on opportunity qualification, pursuit investment, positioning, teaming, resources, and risk
  • Coordinate cross-functional pursuit teams, resolve barriers, and escalate major risks, resource needs, or decisions when needed
  • Monitor pursuit progress and capture milestones; identify gaps and drive follow-up to keep priority pursuits moving

Other skills

  • Strategic Thinking
  • Leadership
  • Communication
  • Distributed Team Management
  • Problem Solving

About the company

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Michael Baker International

Infrastructure & Heavy Civil Construction

Michael Baker International is a leading provider of engineering and consulting services, including design, planning, architectural, environmental, construction and program management. The company provides its comprehensive range of services and solutions to support U.S. federal, state, and municipal governments, foreign allied governments, and a wide range of commercial clients. Michael Baker’s more than 3,000 employees across nearly 100 locations are committed to a culture of innovation, collaboration and technological advancement to help solve challenges for clients and communities throughout the country.

Company details

Company typeLarge
IndustryInfrastructure & Heavy Civil Construction
Company size1001 - 5000

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Job description

What We're Looking For:

Michael Baker International is seeking a Capture Executive to lead capture planning and execution for complex, high-value, and strategically important pursuits. This role partners with business development, technical, proposal, and Growth teams to shape pursuit strategies, strengthen positioning, and improve capture consistency across the organization.

What You'll Do:

  • Lead capture planning and execution for the company's most complex, high-value, high-risk, or strategically important pursuits.
  • Lead and coordinate capture activities across assigned priority pursuits, ensuring strategies, milestones, actions, and decision points are clear and current.
  • Advise senior leaders on opportunity qualification, pursuit investment, positioning, teaming, resources, and risk.
  • Develop, review, and challenge capture plans, competitive strategies, value propositions, differentiators, win themes, and decision materials.
  • Facilitate senior-level strategy sessions, portfolio reviews, and qualification or go/no-go discussions.
  • Coordinate cross-functional pursuit teams, resolve barriers, and escalate major risks, resource needs, or decisions when needed.
  • Monitor pursuit progress and capture milestones; identify gaps and drive follow-up to keep priority pursuits moving.
  • Maintain and update capture plans as new information becomes available.
  • Ensure CRM fields, opportunity information, and required reports are updated based on information learned through research, meetings, and pursuit activities.
  • Coordinate capture-to-proposal transitions and reinforce lessons learned.
  • Provide subject-matter guidance to pursuit teams and help strengthen capture quality and execution without direct supervisory responsibility.
  • Improve capture methods, tools, standards, and consistency across the enterprise.

What You Need to Succeed:

  • 3+ years of experience in capture, business development, multi-team proposal management, sales, account planning, or a related field is preferred.
  • Minimum qualifications:
    • Demonstrated success leading complex, high-value, high-risk, or strategically important pursuits.
    • Ability to lead and influence cross-functional pursuit teams and drive execution without direct supervisory authority.
    • Ability to manage multiple priority pursuits, set priorities, and coordinate resources based on business needs.
    • Ability to advise senior leaders and make sound recommendations using incomplete or changing information.
    • Ability to review and strengthen capture strategies, challenge assumptions, and drive accountability for execution.
    • Strong leadership, strategic thinking, facilitation, communication, organization, and follow-through.
    • Ability to resolve cross-functional barriers and coordinate work across regions, markets/practices, and functions.
    • Proficiency with CRM systems and standard business and collaboration tools.

Compensation:

The approximate compensation range for this position is $160,000 - $210,000.  This compensation range is a good faith estimate for the position at the time of posting.  Actual compensation is dependent upon factors such as education, qualifications, experience, skillset, and physical work location.

Why Choose Us:

  • Medical, dental, vision insurance
  • 401k Retirement Plan
  • Health Savings Account (HSA)
  • Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
  • Life, AD&D, short-term, and long-term disability
  • Professional and personal development
  • Generous paid time off
  • Commuter and wellness benefits

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