[Hiring] Strategic Senior Advisor @AlphaX

Role Description

WIL is seeking a Strategic Senior Advisor with significant government contracting experience: someone who has operated inside the government contracting ecosystem and can help WIL avoid the mistakes organizations make when entering or scaling in that market.

This named relationship is a Strategic Senior Advisor role rather than an immediate full-time operating seat. The expected commitment is limited to:

• Periodic strategic conversations
• Review of selected opportunities or decisions
• Introductions where you independently believe they make sense

Where WIL needs substantial execution, such as capture support, proposal development, contract strategy, or partner work, that can be scoped separately as full-time employment or a project-based contract.

The experience we are looking for includes several of the following:

• Federal, state, or large municipal government contracting
• Capture strategy and opportunity qualification
• RFP, RFQ, and RFI evaluation and bid or no-bid decisions
• Proposal strategy and competitive positioning
• FAR, DFARS, and government procurement processes
• IDIQs, BPAs, GWACs, GSA schedules, or similar vehicles
• Prime and subcontractor teaming
• Agency relationship development
• Contract compliance and post-award execution
• Professional services, research, analytics, workforce, infrastructure, technology, or consulting contracts
• Building or scaling a government contracting function

Experience as a government contracting executive, former contracting or procurement leader, capture executive, government practice leader, or senior operator at an established federal contractor is particularly relevant.

What you'll help WIL decide:

• Which opportunities to pursue and which to walk away from
• Where the government buying process is likely to be underestimated
• What capabilities are needed before pursuing larger contracts
• When to prime versus partner
• What makes an agency take a newer entrant seriously
• What mistakes create problems after an award
• How to build this capability without unnecessary overhead

Qualifications

• Substantial government-contracting execution experience, not title alone
• Judgment that will challenge assumptions rather than confirm them
• Ability to join periodic remote strategic conversations
• Open to full-time employment or project-based contract engagement; remote-first with travel as partner and field work requires

Requirements

• FAR or DFARS, IDIQ, BPA, GWAC, or GSA schedule experience
• Capture, proposal, or post-award compliance leadership
• Professional-services, research, analytics, workforce, infrastructure, or technology contracts