Strategic Impact Accelerate business growth through strategic customer engagement, opportunity shaping, and the execution of complex contract negotiations.
Trusted Advisor: Serve as a trusted strategic partner to internal stakeholders and cross‑functional leaders, offering expert guidance, resolving contract challenges, and strengthening decision-making.
Innovation Adoption: Leverage emerging technologies, including AI, to revolutionize contract processes
What You Bring
Educational Foundation: Bachelor's degree with 8+ years of experience, or Master’s degree with 6+ years
Contracts Expertise: Deep knowledge of government contracts, subcontracts, and proposal support
Business Acumen & Execution: Ability to make sound business judgments, handle multiple contractual activities with a short turn-around time, and work independently as well as part of a Team.
Negotiation Mastery: Expert-level skills in complex terms and conditions negotiations
Regulatory Knowledge: Working expertise in FAR/DFAR, OTAs, CRADAs, and commercial agreements
Security Clearance: Active Top Secret/SCI with polygraph required
Preferred Qualifications That Set You Apart
Intelligence Community acquisitions expertise
Formal contracting certifications
Large capture team experience
AI implementation experience in contract processes
Government or corporate procurement background
Location: This is a hybrid position working at customer sites in Northern, VA, Washington, DC and Bethesda, MD. Must be comfortable working at a customer site a minimum of two (2) days a week and traveling to meetings as needed.
Ready to Lead?
Join a team where your expertise directly contributes to national security while advancing your career in one of the most dynamic sectors in government contracting. At Leidos, you'll have the resources, support, and mission focus to make a lasting impact.
Your next strategic leadership opportunity awaits.
If you're looking for comfort, keep scrolling. At Leidos, we outthink, outbuild, and outpace the status quo — because the mission demands it. We're not hiring followers. We're recruiting the ones who disrupt, provoke, and refuse to fail. Step 10 is ancient history. We're already at step 30 — and moving faster than anyone else dares.
Original Posting
September 18, 2026
For U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.
Pay Range
Pay Range $92,300.00 - $166,850.00
The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.
