Intern Strategic Growth and Capture

SAIC•Reston, VA

11h•Onsite

About The Position

The Strategic Growth and Capture Intern works alongside SAIC Business Development executives, Capture Managers, Solution Architects, and Competitive Intelligence analysts. The internship provides hands-on exposure to the federal procurement lifecycle, strategic market positioning, competitive analysis, and executive-level proposal development. The position is onsite in Reston, Virginia. The intern supports market research, capture strategy, proposal operations, and pipeline analytics across SAIC’s defense, space, civilian, and intelligence markets. At the conclusion of the internship, the intern researches, develops, and presents a high-visibility Growth Capstone Project to SAIC Growth leadership and Business Group Growth Officers.

Requirements

Current college student with two or more years of coursework in a business-related major.
U.S. citizenship required.
Proficient in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint, and comfortable working with data and presentations.
Strong analytical, research, and written communication skills.
Demonstrated organization, teamwork, and/or leadership experience.
Self-starter able to adapt to changing priorities and deadlines.

Nice To Haves

Interest in federal government, defense, space, or intelligence markets.

Responsibilities

Conduct market assessments across defense, space, civilian, and intelligence agency pipelines using federal market tools.
Develop competitive landscapes, competitor profiles, and competitive intelligence dossiers.
Summarize research in executive briefing decks covering customer pain points, budget trajectories, and procurement trends.
Support Capture Managers through opportunity qualification, solutioning, teaming, and price-to-win reviews.
Help develop differentiated value propositions, customer-focused win themes, and mission narratives linking SAIC solutions to warfighter needs.
Analyze teaming agreements, subcontractor capabilities, and small business socio-economic utilization strategies with partner intelligence leads.
Participate in proposal stand-up meetings, storyboarding sessions, and Pink, Red, and Gold Team reviews.
Help create past performance matrices, compliance cross-reference tables, and capability cheat-sheets.
Work with Growth Enablement leads to improve capture toolkits, template repositories, and pipeline metrics.
Maintain and audit pursuit health data in Microsoft Dynamics 365.
Help build and maintain Power BI dashboards tracking qualified pipeline value, win rate, bookings forecast, and Bid & Proposal spending.
Research, develop, and present a Growth Capstone Project to SAIC Growth leadership and Business Group Growth Officers.