Division Project Lead

Leidos

. Lead complex customer-driven projects and business actions from requirements through final delivery, including ROM requests, RFP-driven tasking, cost/business analyses, and division priorities .

Posted 10/27/2026full-timeRemote • United StatesSenior💰 $92,300 - $166,850 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in advanced project management principles, including requirements decomposition, strategic planning, and complex Excel-based financial modeling. Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams, manage customer-driven projects, and deliver high-quality results under tight deadlines.

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Advanced Microsoft Excel ProficiencyProject/Program Management ExpertiseFinancial/Cost Analysis ExperienceLeadership and Interpersonal SkillsActive DoD Secret Clearance

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Hard Skills

Requirements DecompositionCost/Resource ModelingData ManipulationTrend AnalysisVariance AnalysisScenario AnalysisBOE DevelopmentQuality ReviewAnalytical Tools ImplementationStrategic Planning

Soft Skills

Verbal CommunicationWritten CommunicationFacilitation SkillsConflict ResolutionDelegation

Tools & Technologies

Microsoft ExcelMicrosoft PowerPointPivotTablesPivotChartsData Modeling Tools

Certifications & Qualifications

Active DoD Secret ClearanceAbility to Obtain Top-Secret Clearance

Industry Keywords

Government ContractingIDIQ/Task-Order EnvironmentsPWS RequirementsCLIN StructuresBusiness Strategy

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead complex customer-driven projects and business actions from requirements through final delivery, including ROM requests, RFP-driven tasking, cost/business analyses, and division priorities
Maintain accountability for requirements, scope, schedule, resources, risks, cross-functional execution, reviews, approvals, and final deliverables
Lead requirements decomposition and strategic planning sessions with Program Managers, technical leads, SMEs, and functional stakeholders
Lead Basis of Estimate (BOE) development sessions, translating technical solutions into workload drivers, staffing assumptions, labor categories, hours, periods of performance, and estimating rationale
Perform hands-on Excel analysis, data manipulation, data cleanup, advanced formulas, lookups, PivotTables, PivotCharts, reconciliation, data modeling, actuals analysis, target-rate analysis, labor-mix assessment, trend and variance analysis, scenario analysis, and repeatable reporting
Develop, validate, reconcile, and quality-check labor, material, subcontractor, travel, and other inputs in Excel-based cost and resource models
Prepare and validate structured data for system uploads and verify model outputs against source assumptions and documentation
Maintain traceability across customer requirements, technical approach, BOE assumptions, staffing, materials, subcontractor inputs, cost models, CLIN structures, schedules, and final deliverables
Coordinate inputs from task order PMs, technical SMEs, Finance/Pricing, Contracts, Subcontracts/Procurement, Quality/Security, vendors, and other stakeholders
Obtain and integrate vendor quotes and BOM inputs; identify gaps, challenge assumptions, resolve disconnects, and drive actions and decisions to closure
Develop and present leadership-ready summaries covering scope, solutions, assumptions, cost drivers, deltas, risks, alternatives, and required decisions
Lead working-level and leadership reviews through approval and synthesize technical, financial, contractual, and operational information
Perform detailed quality reviews of analytical models, BOEs, schedules, cost inputs, assumptions, documentation, and deliverables
Manage multiple concurrent high-priority efforts with competing deadlines and maintain quality and schedule discipline during surge periods
Implement reusable templates, analytical tools, estimating constructs, and standard work to improve quality, speed, consistency, and scalability
Coach, review, and delegate work to less experienced team members

Requirements

What you’ll need

BS degree and 8–12 years of prior relevant experience, or a Master's degree with 6–10 years of prior relevant experience; may possess a Doctorate in a technical domain
Expert knowledge of advanced project/program management principles and Leidos/Mission Operations Division processes
Advanced Microsoft Excel proficiency, including data manipulation, advanced formulas, lookups, PivotTables, PivotCharts, data modeling, reconciliation, actuals/target-rate/labor-mix/trend/variance/scenario analysis, and complex reporting
Experience facilitating strategic planning and solution-development sessions and translating requirements into BOEs, staffing/resource estimates, workload drivers, or analogous bottom-up estimating outputs
Experience with financial, cost, resource, or estimating models; model validation, reconciliation, and discrepancy resolution
Experience independently owning complex customer-driven projects or comparable cross-functional efforts from initiation through completion
Strong verbal, written, facilitation, and presentation skills
Effective leadership and interpersonal skills, including influencing without direct authority, delegation, accountability, conflict resolution, and driving issues to closure
Ability to operate at strategic and detailed levels while validating schedules, assumptions, calculations, source data, and documentation
Expertise in Microsoft Office, particularly Excel and PowerPoint
Experience working effectively in a virtual team environment across multiple time zones
Ability to support infrequent travel and occasional surge requirements
Ability to coach, mentor, review, and delegate work to less experienced team members
Experience implementing process, reporting, analytical, estimating, or model improvements
Active DoD Secret clearance with the ability to obtain a Top-Secret clearance
Preferred: government contracting experience, including IDIQ/task-order environments and familiarity with PWS requirements, CLIN structures, periods of performance, labor categories, BOEs, BOMs, and contract types
Preferred: business strategy, business operations, financial/cost analysis, actuals and target-rate analysis, or complex customer-driven tasking in government contracting environments
Preferred: complex Excel-based financial/cost/resource models, structured cost-system uploads, vendor/subcontractor inputs, and leadership-ready business recommendations
Preferred: senior stakeholder presentation and customer-interface experience

Benefits

Comp & perks

Full-time employment
Opportunity to work in a virtual team environment
Infrequent travel and occasional surge requirements