Serve as the primary strategic interface with customer contacts, including Contracting Officers and acquisition specialists; cultivate and maintain strong, trust-based relationships at all levels of the customer organization, including fostering the kind of accessible, responsive engagement that senior customer leadership values and expects; demonstrate interpersonal agility across a wide range of customer personalities and communication styles; lead negotiations with a flexible, solutions-oriented mindset - recognizing that some positions must be held firmly while others present opportunities to create mutually beneficial outcomes; consistently pursue resolutions that protect SAIC''s interests while leaving the customer assured they have been heard, are respected, and are being well-served. Demonstrate sophisticated, hands-on proficiency with innovative and alternative acquisition mechanisms, including Other Transaction Authorities (OTAs), Commercial Solutions Openings (CSOs), Broad Agency Announcements (BAAs), and prototype project proposals; serve as a trusted advisor to business and program leadership, providing clear, experience-based counsel on the real-world trade-offs of each vehicle across intellectual property rights, data rights, competitive positioning, cost and pricing considerations, organizational conflict of interest implications, and long-term program implications.