Division Project Lead

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Oversee intricate customer-focused projects and business initiatives from inception to final execution, encompassing ROM requests, RFP-based tasks, cost and business analyses, and division priorities.

• Ensure accountability for requirements, scope, timeline, resources, risks, cross-functional execution, reviews, approvals, and final outputs.

• Facilitate requirements decomposition and strategic planning discussions with Program Managers, technical leads, SMEs, and functional stakeholders.

• Conduct Basis of Estimate (BOE) development sessions, converting technical solutions into workload drivers, staffing assumptions, labor categories, hours, performance periods, and estimating rationale.

• Execute hands-on Excel analysis, including data manipulation, cleanup, advanced formulas, lookups, PivotTables, PivotCharts, reconciliation, data modeling, actuals analysis, target-rate evaluation, labor-mix assessment, trend and variance analysis, scenario analysis, and repeatable reporting.

• Create, validate, reconcile, and quality-check labor, material, subcontractor, travel, and additional inputs in Excel-based cost and resource models.

• Prepare and validate structured data for system uploads, ensuring model outputs align with source assumptions and documentation.

• Maintain traceability across customer requirements, technical approaches, BOE assumptions, staffing, materials, subcontractor inputs, cost models, CLIN structures, schedules, and final deliverables.

• Coordinate contributions 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 discrepancies, and drive actions and decisions to completion.

• Develop and present leadership-ready summaries detailing scope, solutions, assumptions, cost drivers, deltas, risks, alternatives, and required decisions.

• Conduct working-level and leadership reviews through approval, synthesizing technical, financial, contractual, and operational information.

• Execute detailed quality reviews of analytical models, BOEs, schedules, cost inputs, assumptions, documentation, and deliverables.

• Manage multiple simultaneous high-priority projects with competing deadlines while maintaining quality and schedule discipline during peak periods.

• Implement reusable templates, analytical tools, estimating constructs, and standardized work to enhance quality, speed, consistency, and scalability.

• Mentor, review, and delegate tasks to less experienced team members.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor's degree and 8–12 years of relevant experience, or a Master's degree with 6–10 years of relevant experience; a Doctorate in a technical field may also be considered.

• In-depth understanding of advanced project/program management principles and Leidos/Mission Operations Division processes.

• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel, including data manipulation, complex formulas, lookups, PivotTables, PivotCharts, data modeling, reconciliation, and various forms of analysis and reporting.

• Demonstrated experience in facilitating strategic planning and solution development sessions, translating requirements into BOEs, staffing/resource estimates, workload drivers, or similar estimating outputs.

• Background in financial, cost, resource, or estimating models; including model validation, reconciliation, and resolving discrepancies.

• Proven ability to independently manage complex customer-driven projects or similar cross-functional initiatives from initiation to completion.

• Excellent verbal, written, facilitation, and presentation capabilities.

• Strong leadership and interpersonal skills, including the ability to influence without direct authority, delegate responsibilities, ensure accountability, resolve conflicts, and drive issues to resolution.

• Capability to operate at both strategic and detailed levels while validating schedules, assumptions, calculations, source data, and documentation.

• Expertise in Microsoft Office Suite, particularly Excel and PowerPoint.

• Proven effectiveness in a virtual team setting across multiple time zones.

• Willingness to support occasional travel and surge requirements.

• Ability to coach, mentor, review, and delegate tasks to less experienced team members.

• Experience in implementing process improvements, reporting enhancements, analytical improvements, estimating, or model enhancements.

• Active DoD Secret clearance with the capability to obtain a Top-Secret clearance.

• Preferred: experience in government contracting, including IDIQ/task-order environments and familiarity with PWS requirements, CLIN structures, periods of performance, labor categories, BOEs, BOMs, and contract types.

• Preferred: background in business strategy, business operations, financial/cost analysis, actuals and target-rate analysis, or complex customer-driven tasks in government contracting settings.

• Preferred: experience with complex Excel-based financial/cost/resource models, structured cost system uploads, vendor/subcontractor inputs, and business recommendations prepared for leadership.

• Preferred: experience presenting to senior stakeholders and interfacing with customers.

🏝️ Benefits

• Full-time employment.

• Opportunity to work within a virtual team environment.

• Infrequent travel and occasional surge requirements.