VP, Client Executive

SAIC•Jacksonville, NC

About The Position

The Vice President, Client Executive, Department of War directs SAIC’s overarching customer relationship, long-term strategic positioning, and growth agenda across key warfighting accounts. Leveraging a distinguished career of senior operational command and flag-level leadership, this executive connects SAIC’s enterprise capabilities (including digital engineering, software integration, secure cloud, and mission analytics) with senior defense decision-makers to shape requirements, maximize contract vehicle utilization, and ensure our solutions directly solve critical warfighter challenges.

Requirements

Distinguished career of senior operational command and flag-level leadership
Deep domain expertise in fires, joint targeting, and air defense
Command experience across domestic operations and joint structures
Experience with digital engineering, software integration, secure cloud, and mission analytics
Ability to connect SAIC’s enterprise capabilities with senior defense decision-makers
Ability to shape requirements and maximize contract vehicle utilization
Ability to solve critical warfighter challenges

Nice To Haves

Experience in the Indo-Pacific theater
Experience with coalition warfighting readiness
Experience with expeditionary mission systems, resilient edge networking, secure tactical communications, and contested logistics architectures
Experience with secure multi-cloud environments, Zero Trust architectures, and enterprise digital infrastructure
Experience with systems integration and secure data federation capabilities
Experience with IDIQ contract vehicles

Responsibilities

Cultivate and maintain trusted, peer-to-peer relationships with general officers, Combatant Commanders, and senior acquisition executives across the Department of War.
Act as the strategic "Voice of the Customer," bringing honest customer feedback regarding our program execution back to business group leadership to protect and enhance our reputation.
Strengthen SAIC’s market authority by spearheading targeted white papers, executive roundtables, and high-impact demonstrations of SAIC's core technologies and mission solutions.
Capitalize on deep domain expertise in fires, joint targeting, and air defense to align SAIC’s digital modernization capabilities with service-wide modernization commands and doctrine centers.
Position SAIC’s command and control software integration, automated sensor-to-shooter data pipelines, and other SAIC capabilities to capture major multi-domain command and control and cross-domain integration programs.
Leverage operational command experience to guide SAIC’s growth across theater-level Service and Joint commands and regional allied partnerships.
Shape multi-year pursuits around SAIC’s expeditionary mission systems, resilient edge networking, secure tactical communications, and contested logistics architectures tailored to distributed theater operations.
Utilize command experience across domestic operations and joint structures to position SAIC's secure multi-cloud environments, Zero Trust architectures, and enterprise digital infrastructure.
Expand our footprint across theater-level command consolidation, crisis response operations, and defense support of civil authorities by showcasing SAIC's systems integration and secure data federation capabilities.
Proactively uncover adjacent customer requirements and mission gaps within active programs, driving ceiling utilization on key IDIQ contract vehicles.
Partner with Business Development Managers and Operations to convert on-contract successes into expanded task order wins and long-term recompete security.