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