Engagement Lead, NAVSUP

Job Title: Engagement Lead, NAVSUP
Location: Mechanicsburg, PA – Onsite Monday-Thursday
Eligibility: Candidate must possess an active TS/SCI clearance

Job Description:

Departmental Function(s): DoW Practice

Job Description:
The Engagement Lead serves as the senior accountable leader for
successful execution of a complex Navy client engagement with NAVSUP.
NAVSUP is conducting an assessment to evaluate the operating model of
NAVSUP and supporting organizations to identify how best to execute the
DoW acquisition reform objectives, including support to Portfolio
Acquisition Executives (PAEs).

The Engagement Lead is responsible for overall contract performance,
client relationship management, integrated delivery oversight, and
identification of follow-on opportunities that advance client mission
outcomes. The Engagement Lead serves as the primary interface with
client leadership and ensures that all workstreams are aligned to
program priorities, contract requirements, quality standards, and
measurable operational results. This role requires a leader who combines
NAVSUP mission understanding, executive client presence, delivery
discipline, and the ability to translate trusted relationships into
sustained impact and growth. This role is an Individual Contributor role
to start, with the opportunity to grow a team over time.

Key Responsibilities

Client leadership

- Serve as the primary senior point of contact for NAVSUP client
leadership

- Build and sustain trusted relationships with government stakeholders
across the engagement

- Provide strategic advice, issue resolution, and actionable
recommendations aligned to mission priorities

- Lead executive meetings, status reviews, decision forums, and
stakeholder engagements

Delivery and execution

- Oversee execution of all contract tasks, deliverables, and
workstreams

- Ensure alignment of scope, schedule, staffing, quality, and budget
across the engagement

- Establish and maintain delivery, governance, performance tracking,
and escalation mechanisms

- Drive resolution of complex delivery, stakeholder, and operational
issues

Financial and operational management

- Monitor contract performance, burn, margin, subcontractor
performance, and resource utilization

- Identify risks early and implement mitigation or corrective actions

- Ensure compliance with contract requirements, reporting obligations,
and internal management expectations

- Support program reviews and executive decision-making with accurate,
timely data

Growth and account expansion

- Identify follow-on opportunities, adjacent needs, and strategic
issues that can be addressed through trusted delivery

- Partner with growth and capture teams on on-contract growth, option
years, recompete planning, and targeted new work

- Contribute client insight and engagement strategy to proposals and
account planning

- Help position the firm as a long-term strategic partner to the Navy
client

Minimum Requirements

- Current and Active DOD/DOW TS/SCI

- 8+ years leading complex Navy programs, engagements, or
mission-support initiatives, ideally for NAVSUP clients

- Demonstrated success serving as a senior client-facing leader on
high-visibility federal engagements

- Experience managing multiple workstreams and executive stakeholders

- Proven ability to deliver high-quality outcomes in dynamic, matrixed
environments

- Strong understanding of Navy operations, industrial base,
acquisition, modernization, logistics, readiness, or other relevant
mission areas

- Experience identifying and shaping follow-on work through client
trust and performance credibility

- Excellent executive communication, facilitation, and stakeholder
management skills

- Experience with contract performance management, staffing strategy,
and financial oversight

- Able to work on-site in Mechanicsburg, PA Monday-Thursday

Preferred Qualifications

- Demonstrated expertise in strategy development and organization
development at the enterprise level.

- Experience leading implementation efforts

Work Location & Schedule

- Primary Location: Able to work on-site in Mechanicsburg, PA
Monday-Thursday

- Desired Start Date: ASAP