Sr. Market Intelligence Manager

The Senior Market Intelligence Manager leads AEVEX’s enterprise-wide market, competitor, and customer intelligence function. This role serves as the organization’s authoritative expert and is responsible for producing high-fidelity, actionable intelligence that informs strategy, capture, pricing, and investment decisions across both Tactical Systems (TS) and Global Solutions (GS). Operating in a high complexity, multi-domain environment, the role synthesizes defense budgets, competitive activity, technology trends, and customer demand into clear guidance for executive leadership and cross functional teams.

• Analyze U.S. DoD budget materials including justification books, appropriations, POM shifts, and multi-year funding patterns to align opportunities with TS and GS portfolios.
• Develop forecasting models linking budget signals to AEVEX opportunity windows across TS (NAC, UAS, USV, and Special Programs) and GS (AM&I, Airborne ISR, Intelligence Analysis, and Mission Support) portfolios.
• Assess international customer budget cycles, security cooperation pathways, and acquisition planning to identify aircraft, UxS, ISR, and service-based demand signals.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and industry shifts to forecast their long-term impact on AEVEX’s market share and strategic roadmap.
• Translate complex market data into strategic insights supporting corporate planning, marketing strategy, long-range planning, investments, and product roadmaps.
• Perform competitor analyses including solution architectures, pricing behaviors, technology maturity, sustainment models, and contract performance history.
• Develop comparative assessments across TS (NAC, UAS, USV, Special Programs) and GS (AM&I, ISR, Intel Analysis, Mission Support) to identify strategic advantages and vulnerabilities.
• Lead Black Hat reviews to simulate competitor strategies and refine AEVEX’s technical and pricing approaches.
• Maintain competitive catalogs mapping incumbents, teaming dynamics, and historical award patterns across key accounts.
• Capture Support & Price-to-Win Strategy.
• Deliver PTW analysis integrating pricing intelligence, historical tendencies, technical discriminators, and risk-based modeling.
• Advise Capture Managers and business development leadership on differentiated value propositions needed to win new and incumbent programs.
• Partner closely with product teams to refine messaging and align offerings with verified market needs.
• Guide capture teams across TS and GS in shaping competitive technical solutions informed by intelligence insights.
• Provide Gate Review inputs including competitive ranges, pricing envelopes, and competitor risk profiles.
• Work with proposal teams to ensure market intelligence informs solution narratives and key differentiators.
• Cross Functional Integration & Collaboration.
• Serve as enterprise integrator of intelligence across engineering, capture, proposal, TS, and GS teams.
• Partner with product, engineering, and operations teams to align intelligence with solution design and lifecycle planning.
• Coordinate with leadership to ensure intelligence products support near-term captures and long-term strategic positioning.
• Additional Responsibilities.
• Maintain enterprise access to Janes Defense or other premium intelligence platforms.
• Produce executive-ready reports, dashboards, and decision briefs.
• Support internal training and process improvement initiatives related to market intelligence and competitive analysis.
• Perform additional responsibilities as required.
• Perform other duties as required.

• Regular and reliable attendance on a full time basis [or in accordance with posted schedule].
• Responsible for exhibiting professional behavior with both internal and external business associates that reflects positively on the company and is consistent with the company's policies and practices.
• Embodies AEVEX’s cultural values and aligns daily actions with department goals and company culture.

• Deep understanding of the PPBE process, Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR/DFARS), and the federal procurement lifecycle.
• Strong expertise in UxS, manned aviation,…