Business Development Specialist

We are seeking a Business Development Specialist who is ready to roll up their sleeves and drive top-line growth in a fast-moving small business environment.

This individual will be a strategic hunter—identifying, shaping, and pursuing new opportunities within the federal marketplace, with a strong emphasis on DoD, DHS, and Intelligence Community sectors.

The ideal candidate brings a blend of entrepreneurial energy, market intelligence, and capture savvy to help Mission One scale our footprint, strengthen partnerships, and win high-value contracts.

• Develop and execute targeted growth strategies aligned with Mission One’s core capabilities and federal priorities.
• Identify and qualify new business opportunities through market research, relationship building, and competitive intelligence.
• Lead capture efforts from opportunity identification through proposal development, partnering closely with leadership.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with government customers, primes, and teaming partners.
• Support proposal strategy, solution shaping, and pricing strategies in collaboration with internal SMEs.
• Monitor and track relevant contracting vehicles (e.g., SAM.gov, GWACs, IDIQs, OTAs) to ensure strategic positioning.
• Represent Mission One at industry events, conferences, and networking engagements to expand visibility and brand equity.
• Contribute to pipeline development, forecasting, and CRM tracking to enable data-driven decision-making.

• 3+ years of business development, capture management, or proposal experience within the defense or federal contracting ecosystem.
• Demonstrated track record of identifying, qualifying, and winning new business.