# Project Leader

**Company**: Leidos
**Location**: 6314 Remote/Teleworker US
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Operations
**Industry**: Consulting

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## Description

The Leidos Mission Operations Division is seeking a hands-on Project Leader to lead complex customer-driven projects and business actions in a fast-paced environment. The successful candidate will serve as the end-to-end project lead, combining project leadership, cross-functional execution, advanced Excel-based analysis, cost and resource planning, risk management, and leadership-ready communication.

**Primary Responsibilities**

- Lead complex customer-driven projects and business actions from initial requirements through final delivery

- Lead requirements decomposition and strategic planning sessions with Program Managers, technical leads, SMEs, and functional stakeholders

- Lead BOE development sessions to translate technical solutions into workload drivers, staffing assumptions, labor categories, hours, periods of performance, and documented estimating rationale

- Perform hands-on Microsoft Excel analysis and data manipulation

- Work directly within structured Excel-based cost and resource models to develop, validate, reconcile, and quality-check labor, material, subcontractor, travel, and other inputs

- Maintain traceability across customer requirements, technical approach, BOE assumptions, staffing, material and subcontractor inputs, cost models, CLIN structures, schedules, and final deliverables

- Coordinate and integrate inputs from task order PMs, technical SMEs, Finance/Pricing, Contracts, Subcontracts/Procurement, Quality/Security, and other stakeholders

- Develop and present leadership-ready summaries that clearly communicate scope, solution, key assumptions, cost drivers, deltas, risks, alternatives, and decisions required

- Perform detailed quality reviews of analytical models, BOEs, schedules, cost inputs, assumptions, supporting documentation, and final deliverables

- Manage multiple concurrent, high-priority efforts with competing deadlines, independently reassessing priorities, communicating impacts, and maintaining quality and schedule discipline during surge periods

- Identify recurring execution gaps and implement practical improvements, reusable templates, analytical tools, estimating constructs, and standard work that improve quality, speed, consistency, and organizational scalability

**Basic Qualifications**

- Typically requires a BS degree and 8-12 years of prior relevant experience or a Master's degree with 6-10 years of prior relevant experience

- Expert knowledge of and ability to apply advanced project/program management principles and concepts, Leidos processes, and Mission Operations Division processes

- Advanced analytical skills with expert proficiency in Microsoft Excel

- Demonstrated experience facilitating strategic planning and solution-development sessions with Program Managers, technical leads, and SMEs

- Demonstrated experience working with financial, cost, resource, or estimating models

- Demonstrated experience independently owning complex customer-driven projects or comparable cross-functional efforts

- Strong verbal, written, facilitation, and presentation skills

- Effective leadership and interpersonal skills with the ability to influence without direct authority

- Demonstrated ability to operate at both the strategic and detailed level

- Expertise in Microsoft Office applications, particularly Excel and PowerPoint

- Experience working effectively in a virtual team environment across multiple time zones

- Demonstrated ability to coach, mentor, review, and delegate work to less experienced team members

- Active DoD Secret clearance with the ability to obtain a Top-Secret clearance

## Skills

### Required
- Microsoft Excel
- project management
- analytical skills
- communication
- leadership

### Nice to have
- government contracting
- IDIQ/task-order environments
- PWS requirements
- CLIN structures
- periods of performance
- labor categories
- BOEs
- BOMs
- contract types

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