Vice President, Operations

Akima, LLC and its operating companies represent an uncommonly broad array of specialized talent, technologies, and domain expertise, powering some of the most visible and demanding programs across all of government and industry. Driven by national priorities, Akima companies successfully support their customers at every critical point across a program’s lifecycle – from strategy, design, and development through operations, management, migration, modernization, and sustainment.

We’re seeking a strategic and highly organized Vice President, Growth Operations to lead and continuously improve the enterprise infrastructure that enables Akima to identify, qualify, pursue, and win business. This executive will integrate people, processes, governance, systems, data, and contract vehicles to strengthen the company’s business winning capabilities and bring greater discipline, quality, responsiveness, and insight across the full growth lifecycle.

Reporting to the Chief Growth Officer, this role will lead the company’s Proposal Operations Center, GWAC/IDIQ Center of Excellence (CoE), Sales Enablement, and Growth Operations functions. The ideal candidate will have led complex, high-volume growth operations within a large Federal contractor and possess a strong track record of driving consistent execution and measurable growth results outcomes across federated, matrixed teams. This leader must combine deep proposal and Federal acquisition expertise with exceptional operational discipline, sound business judgment, strong executive presence, and the ability to influence stakeholders who do not report directly to the role.

The successful candidate will be both a hands-on operator and a change leader, equally capable of setting enterprise growth operations strategy and sustaining demanding day-to-day proposal activity and contract vehicle management while personally resolving unique operational challenges. This executive will simultaneously modernize Akima’s business winning model through workforce development, integrated systems and data, artificial intelligence, stronger governance, and more agile ways of working.

The role requires leading a multi-speed growth engine capable of supporting complex, multibillion-dollar pursuits alongside smaller, quick-turn task order responses, aligning resources, processes, and reviews to the demands of each. This leader will be central to strengthening enterprise pursuit discipline, improving cross-Group orchestration, and enabling Akima to respond effectively to an increasingly diverse set of Federal acquisition pathways.

If you’re ready to make a significant impact and drive our company forward, we invite you to join us on this exciting journey.

Candidate must reside within commuting distance of Akima's HQ in Herndon, VA.

• Lead Akima’s enterprise Growth Operations organization, establishing priorities, performance expectations, and integrated execution across Proposal Operations, the GWAC/IDIQ CoE, Growth Operations, and Sales Enablement.
• Steward and continuously improve the company’s enterprise sales process, the Akima Competitive Win Plan, and associated artifacts including qualification standards, gate criteria, corporate gate reviews, templates, tools, training, and adoption.
• In partnership with the Chief Growth Officer and Vice Presidents of Business Development. promote rigorous qualification, disciplined pursuit investment, company-level prioritization, and coordinated execution across Akima’s Business Groups and operating companies while accommodating distinct markets, customers, and acquisition environments.
• Lead the enterprise Proposal Operations function, with accountability for proposal management, writing and production…