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SalarySenior Competitive Intelligence Specialist & Facilitator (Remote)
Join the Corporate Growth Team at ICF
We are one team united around one mission: growing ICF. Our mandate is to retain and expand existing client work, capture new opportunities, and actively take work from our competitors. We accomplish this by creating systems that support effective business development (BD) activities, providing best-in-class proposal and BD services, and inspiring our teammates to win.
By supporting growth, we further ICF’s mission to create a more prosperous and resilient world. We work side-by-side with experts devoted to climate resilience, public health, cybersecurity, energy efficiency, and other critical areas that require complex technical solutions from expert teams.
How do we drive this mission?
Corporate Growth is staffed by a wide range of BD experts. We specialize in capture and proposal development, Competitive Intelligence, market research, data management and technology, training, price-to-win, customer experience, and more. By providing a suite of services, tools, and programs, we support project teams across the organization as they develop strategies to pursue and win work.
What makes Corporate Growth unique?
We have created a collaborative, fulfilling, innovative, and transparent environment that values diverse perspectives.
We continually challenge ourselves to find new and better ways to do what we do, looking outward to build on industry best practices and emerging tools while creating space for all ideas. And, we mean it when we say we work hard and have fun.
Join our team. Bring your ideas to our important work.
ICF is seeking a Senior Competitive Intelligence Specialist & Facilitator for our Competitive Intelligence team within the Corporate Growth Group. We are looking for a talented researcher who would like to apply their research and facilitation skills to improve ICF’s competitive stance. You will facilitate Black Hat Competitive Intelligence exercises as part of ICF’s business development process. Interest in making competitive analysis actionable, using innovative techniques, and continuing to evolve to improve the quality and impact are key considerations. You will be part of a team focused on driving ICF growth by providing actionable information on our competition to inform our growth strategy, our proposed solutions, and client interactions to increase our overall win probability across the public, commercial and utility sectors related to ICF strategic markets and clients.
Whilst this is a remote position, occasional travel to an ICF office may arise.
What You Will Do:
- Support the Competitive Intelligence team’s activities, including analyzing and synthesizing research conducted throughout the capture process.
- Facilitate competitor strategy sessions, such as Black Hats
- Work closely with capture teams to lead activities in the CI workstream, including developing opportunity specific competitive landscapes and developing competitor research relevant to the evaluation criteria.
- Work independently to develop and present work products, including competitive profiles, market briefings and research findings to the senior leadership.
- Take on specific ad-hoc research, capture or Corporate Growth strategic initiative projects as requested.
- Additional responsibilities may include assisting in planning, resourcing, and developing tools and resources to provide access to Competitive Intelligence across ICF.
What You Will Bring With You:
- 5+ years of experience in business or market research, competitive analysis, capture strategy or business development, in the public sector, commercial or utilities markets
- Extensive experience facilitating Black Hat and other related sessions with all levels of the business, including leadership teams.
- Understanding and experience with the capture process.
- Experience analyzing complex information from multiple sources and making sound observations and recommendations
- Experience with a wide range of data sources and Federal and State/Local industry tools, such as USAspending, GovWin, Bloomberg Government, and DACIS.
- Experience in Microsoft 365 tools including Word, PowerPoint, Teams, and Excel.
What We’d Like You To Bring With You:
- Experience with innovative tools and resources for delivering research and information.
- Commercial and utility experience.
- Ability to utilize collaborative tools such as Mural.
- Experience with PowerBI.
Professional Skills:
- Excellent presentation, communication, and interpersonal skills.
- Flexibility in taking on a wide range of tasks against challenging deadlines.
Working at ICF
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