Growth Acquisition Strategist

Growth Acquisition Strategist

Keep growth on track and your career in motion as a Growth Acquisition Strategist at GDIT. Your work leading acquisition strategy during capture will power competitive proposals, strengthen supplier partnerships, and position GDIT for long-term mission success.

MEANINGFUL WORK AND PERSONAL IMPACT

As a Growth Acquisition Strategist, the work you'll do at GDIT will directly impact our ability to win new business. In this role, you will oversee all acquisition-related tasks throughout the capture lifecycle, provide strategic consultation to the capture team, and ensure that subcontracts, material, and supplier strategies to help co-develop the most optimal technical solution and customer requirements. You will act as the integrator across subcontracting, material quoting, agreements, and risk management—ensuring readiness, compliance, risk mitigation, and competitive source selection.

• Serves as a people manager with direct leadership responsibility for a material quoter and subcontract specialist, including setting goals, conducting performance reviews, providing coaching and development, and ensuring alignment to departmental priorities and service-level expectations.
• Serve as the primary acquisition advisor to the Capture Manager, translating acquisition requirements into actionable strategies for subcontracts, materials, and supplier engagement.
• Review solicitations, PWS/SOWs, draft RFPs, and customer artifacts to identify acquisition risks, gaps, and dependencies across the supply chain.
• Drive early strategy development for sourcing, pricing inputs, SLAs, supplier commitments, and risk mitigations to ensure competitive and compliant proposal submissions.
• Utilize artificial intelligence to identify potential gaps or risks between subcontractor agreements and customer requirements.
• Coordinate with the dedicated Subcontracts Lead and Material Quoter to ensure all quotes, agreements, NDAs/TAAs, and compliance documents are delivered on schedule.
• Consolidate acquisition findings, assumptions, risks, and dependencies into leadership-ready briefing materials for color reviews and proposal milestones.
• Support continuous improvement across capture acquisition processes by identifying gaps, recommending enhancements, and promoting best practices across the organization.

In this role you will:

• Early Capture Strategy & Solution Alignment

  • Shape supply chain and subcontracting strategies early in the capture, advising on make/buy decisions, teaming constructs, and risk tradeoffs to ensure alignment with the technical solution and pricing strategy.

• Acquisition Leadership & Integration

  • Serve as the primary acquisition advisor to the capture team; integrate across subcontracts and material quoting to drive compliance, risk mitigation, and strategic competitive source selection.
  • Act as the project manager for acquisition tasks during proposals—defining timelines, dependencies, risks, and deliverables, and driving execution through color reviews and leadership checkpoints.

• Regulatory & Compliance Strategy

  • Interpret FAR/DFARS and ITAR requirements; flow down relevant clauses into supplier RFP packages and BOMs and ensure a CPSR compliant package is provided to sourcing during post award transition.

• Proposal Lifecycle Ownership

  • Lead planning, coordination, and submission of all acquisition proposal inputs (RFPs/RFQs/RFIs); establish centralized visibility, track approvals, and maintain quality, accuracy, and competitiveness from concept through submission.
  • Consolidate acquisition assumptions, risks, and dependencies into leadership ready briefings and prepare comprehensive hand off packages for execution teams following a win.

• Supplier Strategy & Engagement

  • Develop and execute strategic supplier engagement plans (SLAs, rate cards, quotes, negotiations) tied to capture objectives; validate supplier proposals and performance expectations to support pricing and solution credibility.
  • Partner with internal stakeholders (BD, solution architects, finance, legal, contracts, program management) to ensure sourcing strategies and risk positions align with the technical solutions and customer requirements.

• Risk & Opportunity Management

  • Identify and mitigate risks across cost, schedule/lead time, supplier capability, technical fit, and regulatory compliance.

• Process Improvement & Capability Building

  • Drive continuous improvement in capture acquisition processes; contribute training, documentation, and best practices to elevate organizational capability across acquisition proposal activities.

WHAT YOU'LL NEED TO SUCCEED

Bring your acquisition knowledge, analytical strength, and consultative problem-solving style to GDIT. The Growth Acquisition Strategist must have:

• Education: Bachelor's degree or 4+ years of additional work experience may substitute for a degree.

• Experience: 5+ years in any of the following fields: federal acquisition (buying or subcontracts experience), capture/proposal support, and/or solution development in a FAR-based environment.

• Technical & Professional Skills:

  • Strong ability to interpret PWS/SOW, RFP instructions, and evaluation criteria; evaluate supplier proposals; understand pricing and sourcing implications.

  • Preferred knowledge and/or background in affordability/cost-value engineering, make/buy analysis, teammate selection/teaming strategies, and supplier strategy development.

  • Proven cross-functional project management leadership and negotiation of acquisition-related terms and conditions.

  • Excellent communication skills and confidence engaging with internal teams, external partners, and executive leadership.

  • Proficiency in Word, Excel (specifically reporting/analytics), and source-to-pay or contract/procurement systems.

• Eligibility: U.S. Person is required due to the nature of opportunities supported.

GDIT IS YOUR PLACEAt GDIT, the mission is our purpose, and our people are at the center of everything we do. Growth: AI-powered career tool that identifies career steps and learning opportunities Support: An internal mobility team focused on helping you achieve your career goals Rewards: Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages, 401K with company match, and competitive pay and paid time off Flexibility: Full-flex work week to own your priorities at work and at home Community: Award-winning culture of innovation and a military-friendly workplace

The likely salary range for this position is $107,744 - $125,350. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.

Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40

Travel Required: Less than 10%

Telecommuting Options: Hybrid

Work Location: USA VA Falls Church

Additional Work Locations: USA VA Herndon

Total Rewards at GDIT: Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match. To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave. To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available. We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most.