VP, Client Executive

The Vice President, Client Executive, Department of War directs SAIC’s overarching customer relationship, long-term strategic positioning, and growth agenda across key warfighting accounts. Leveraging a distinguished career of senior operational command and flag-level leadership, this executive connects SAIC’s enterprise capabilities (including digital engineering, software integration, secure cloud, and mission analytics) with senior defense decision-makers to shape requirements, maximize contract vehicle utilization, and ensure our solutions directly solve critical warfighter challenges.

 

Core Responsibilities & Strategic Growth Focus Areas 1. Executive Customer Intimacy & Warfighter Advocacy Customer Engagement: Cultivate and maintain trusted, peer-to-peer relationships with general officers, Combatant Commanders, and senior acquisition executives across the Department of War.

 

Voice of the Customer: Act as the strategic "Voice of the Customer," bringing honest customer feedback regarding our program execution back to business group leadership to protect and enhance our reputation.

 

Brand & Market Elevation: Strengthen SAIC’s market authority by spearheading targeted white papers, executive roundtables, and high-impact demonstrations of SAIC's core technologies and mission solutions.

 

Modernizing Fires & CJADC2 Cross-Domain Integration Strategic Alignment: Capitalize on deep domain expertise in fires, joint targeting, and air defense to align SAIC’s digital modernization capabilities with service-wide modernization commands and doctrine centers.

 

Capability Positioning: Position SAIC’s command and control software integration, automated sensor-to-shooter data pipelines, and other SAIC capabilities to capture major multi-domain command and control and cross-domain integration programs.

 

Expanding Indo-Pacific & Coalition Warfighting Readiness Theater Focus: Leverage operational command experience to guide SAIC’s growth across theater-level Service and Joint commands and regional allied partnerships.

 

Mission Architectures: Shape multi-year pursuits around SAIC’s expeditionary mission systems, resilient edge networking, secure tactical communications, and contested logistics architectures tailored to distributed theater operations.

 

Homeland Defense, Theater Commands & Enterprise Modernization Enterprise Integration: Utilize command experience across domestic operations and joint structures to position SAIC's secure multi-cloud environments, Zero Trust architectures, and enterprise digital infrastructure.

 

Mission Expansion: Expand our footprint across theater-level command consolidation, crisis response operations, and defense support of civil authorities by showcasing SAIC's systems integration and secure data federation capabilities.

 

Customer Value Expansion & IDIQ Optimization Ceiling Fill & Adjacencies: Proactively uncover adjacent customer requirements and mission gaps within active programs, driving ceiling utilization on key IDIQ contract vehicles.

 

Organic Growth: Partner with Business Development Managers and Operations to convert on-contract successes into expanded task order wins and long-term recompete security.

 

SAIC® is a premier mission integrator focused on advancing the power of technology and innovation to serve and protect our world. Our robust portfolio of offerings across the defense, space, intelligence, and civilian markets includes secure high-end solutions in mission IT, enterprise IT, engineering services, and professional services. We integrate emerging technology, rapidly and securely, into mission critical operations that modernize and enable critical national imperatives.