VP, Business Development

Peraton is seeking a dynamic, results-driven, and visionary executive to lead growth across our Health State and Local (HSL) Sector, specifically focused on Health and/or State and Local. This Vice President will architect and execute transformative growth strategies to expand Peraton’s footprint across the  Health and/or SLED markets.

This leader will spearhead strategic business development, capture, and partner engagement initiatives to secure and scale new business opportunities. The ideal candidate will be an innovator and change agent—cultivating top-tier customer relationships, driving competitive captures, and instilling a high-performance, mission-first culture of operational excellence.

Key Responsibilities:

• Strategic Growth Leadership: Develop and execute bold, data-informed growth strategies that drive Peraton’s State and Local market share and accelerate pipeline development across current and future accounts.
• Team Empowerment: Lead, coach, and scale a high-performing team of business development, capture, and solution professionals. Set a tone of excellence, integrity, and accountability.
• Market Expansion: Shape and pursue a robust portfolio of opportunities—including new business, expansion, and recompetes—targeting programs of high value.
• Customer & Partner Engagement: Cultivate strategic, trust-based relationships with senior government officials, policymakers, and industry partners to anticipate needs and co-create mission-aligned solutions.
• Integrated Capture Execution: Oversee full lifecycle growth operations—from opportunity identification through proposal—ensuring capture excellence and coordinated execution across contracts, finance, HR, and delivery teams.
• Pipeline Development: Build and maintain a healthy, qualified pipeline aligned with sector priorities. Leverage market intelligence, competitive analysis, and internal capabilities to maximize win rates.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree and a minimum of 16 years’ experience, with at least 10 years in senior growth, business development, or capture leadership roles in government contracting.
• Demonstrated success leading and winning large-scale federal contracts.including complex solutions and recompete efforts.
• Deep familiarity with  Health and/or State and Local ecosystems, including key stakeholders, acquisition processes, and competitive landscape.
• Established and trusted relationships across integrators and OEM partner ecosystem.
• Proven ability to lead enterprise-wide growth strategies and capture operations that directly influence sector and corporate revenue.
• Passion for innovation and transformation with experience leveraging modern technologies including AI, cloud, cyber, and mission applications.
• Demonstrated leadership in building and mentoring high-performing teams in dynamic and competitive environments.
• US citizenship

Preferred Attributes:

• MBA or advanced degree in business, public policy, engineering, or related field.

Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world’s leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees do the can’t be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. Visit peraton.com to learn how we’re keeping people around the world safe and secure.