# Strategic Planning and Partnerships Role for Leidos Energy

**Company**: Leidos
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $154,050.00 - $278,475.00
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Consulting

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## Description

This role sits at the intersection of strategic planning, partnerships, and corporate development for the Leidos Energy line of business.

The core mandate is to be proactive: own ongoing competitive intelligence on the energy infrastructure engineering market, continuously scout for tuck-in acquisition targets that align with Leidos Energy's strategy, and cultivate long-term relationships with key companies in this market.

**Key Responsibilities**

- Target relationship building: Identify candidate tuck-in acquisition targets across the energy infrastructure engineering landscape and proactively build direct, lasting relationships with their leadership and owners.

- Competitive intelligence: Own an ongoing, current view of the utility infrastructure engineering landscape and turn that into a standing intelligence product for the CFO and the Energy BA Leader.

- Market & partnership cultivation: Extend the same relationship-building approach to other key companies in the market that aren't near-term acquisition targets.

- BA Leader partnership: Work hand-in-hand with the Energy BA Leader on where the business should grow inorganically.

- Collaborate with corporate M&A group: Work collaboratively with Corporate Development group to support the diligence and execution of related acquisitions.

- Deal support: Lead the strategic and market-fit workstream of due diligence.

- Business case development: Build the strategic rationale and market narrative behind each opportunity.

- Integration handoff: Stay engaged from signing through early integration planning.

- Organic growth strategy: Support build-vs-buy decisions and capability gap analysis.

**Basic Qualifications**

- Bachelor's degree and 12+ years of relevant experience

- 5+ years in corporate strategy, industry/sector consulting, or corporate development, with a track record in the merger and acquisition space

- Working knowledge of the energy infrastructure engineering market

- Comfortable initiating and holding relationships with target company management and owners

- Comfortable operating with ambiguity across a matrixed organization

**Preferred Qualifications**

- Prior experience inside a utility, engineering services, or AEC company

- Familiarity with the specific competitive set and how they're each positioning

- Prior involvement in post-merger integration

- MBA or equivalent

- Familiarity with government-adjacent or highly regulated commercial businesses

## Skills

### Required
- corporate development
- merger and acquisition
- energy infrastructure engineering
- strategic planning
- partnerships

### Nice to have
- utility infrastructure engineering
- post-merger integration
- MBA

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