See how much of this job your resume covers, and what’s missing.
Want a recruiter to go through it line by line?
Get professional reviewUpload your resume and we draft a letter for this exact role, tailored to what it asks for.
The Director of Pursuit Operations leads the intake, assessment, and prioritization of new business opportunities to ensure efficient resource mobilization. This role provides strategic guidance to executives and manages cross-functional teams to drive execution excellence across complex service pursuits.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Serves as the organization's first-response function for Master Service Agreements (MSAs), Requests for Information (RFIs), unsolicited and emerging opportunities, and other short-fuse business development requests.
- Leads early opportunity qualification, triage, risk assessment, and resource mobilization to ensure timely and disciplined pursuit execution.
- Lead intake, assessment, and triage of newly identified, unsolicited, and previously untracked opportunities across multiple lines of business.
- Establish and manage rapid-response processes for evaluating opportunity fit, strategic alignment, resource requirements, competitive positioning, and pursuit viability.
- Facilitate early qualification activities and executive decision-making regarding bid/no-bid recommendations.
- Maintain visibility into emerging opportunities and escalate high-priority pursuits requiring immediate attention.
- Track MSA, RFI, and emerging opportunity activity to identify trends, readiness requirements, and future pipeline opportunities.
- Lead rapid mobilization of pursuit resources for short-fuse opportunities, task orders, demonstrations, executive presentations, and accelerated procurement timelines.
- Assess resource availability, identify capability gaps, and escalate constraints that may impact pursuit success.
- Ensure critical milestones, reviews, and executive approvals are completed within compressed timelines.
- Provide strategic guidance to executives on pursuit readiness, resource deployment, schedule acceleration, and risk mitigation.
- Lead, coach and develop a team by providing clear direction that support individual and organizational objectives
- Champion responsible use of approved AI-enabled tools and automation to improve intake, triage, reporting, knowledge management, and pursuit operations.
Stop the endless job search. Our AI finds and applies to the best jobs for you.
Featuring 212,189+ Jobs in Others
Answer easy questions
212,189+ jobs across 15+ categories
Get your best job matches
Only hand-screened, legit jobs
Find a remote job faster
No ads, scams, or junk
“I was the first applicant for a remote marketing position that got listed on the company website the same day I applied. Had an interview within 48 hours!”