Director - Mission Solutions at Leidos

Description

Leidos has an exciting career opportunity for a Director - MISSION SOLUTIONS to strengthen and advance growth and customer engagements. The candidate must have extensive career experience and recognized credentials supporting various health missions and operations along with a sustained network and strong relationship building skills. The candidate must be familiar with the customer leadership and be able to exchange information and ideas with influencers and decision makers supporting strategy, plans and programs. In doing the above, the position requires understanding the mission, internal and external pressures and to engage in shaping the environment for growth.

Leidos is committed to serving Service members and their families with transformative programs in support of their life, health, and readiness.  Leidos offers solutions which supports the military health system to provide a medically ready force and a ready medical force.

Director - MISSION SOLUTIONS is responsible for Portfolio lifecycle starting with identifying, qualifying, and supporting capture and closure on Health business opportunities; facilitating mission needs identification; marketing the full range of corporate capabilities; and maximizing external and internal collaboration to program execution. You will be expected to continue to build the Leidos reputation and grow our presence within the customer organization.  You will be responsible for the account plan and leading our strategy for customer engagement. You will also lead identification and development of new opportunities and drive the win strategy for strategic captures.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Develop and maintain customer intimacy with mid and senior level leaders across the HHS customer space. Relationships in CDC, NIH, and FDA are also encouraged. 
• Act as a subject matter expert in the customer community with a demonstrated ability to discuss and explain differentiated capabilities in Leidos programs, plans and positions on key areas related to customer’s enterprise-managed information technology programs.
• Develop customer specific account strategy and goals.
• Ensure a coherent, integrated Leidos message to the customer while promoting corporate capabilities and solutions to meet customer needs.
• Provide input to proposal, pricing, and solution strategy based on customer familiarity.
• Develop strategic partnerships with industry leaders, driving innovation and new business opportunities.
• Coordinate meetings with industry members to develop market insight on acquisition strategy, timing and contract vehicles.
• Create and lead a world class team.
• Interact routinely with various levels of management, functional leads, other staff, and customers. 
• Provide an assessment of the customer’s direction, trends and strategic opportunities in the 3-5 year time horizon providing results to strategic captures and campaigns, and to internal leaders.
• Complete strategic planning by providing insights as to the evolution of and changes in the customer missions, mission approaches, and funding profiles.
• Contribute to Leidos-developed competitive Intelligence reports by providing insights, assessments and recommendations on customer, partner and competitor activities, intentions and trends.
• Conduct customer assessments on contract/task performance and provide feedback to the line organizations.
• Work with designated capture and campaign teams to shape customer opportunities.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:

• BA/BS or equivalent experience and 8+ years of prior relevant experience or Masters with 6+ years of prior relevant experience. Additional years of experience will be considered in lieu of a degree.
• 7+ years of experience in a people leadership or project management position.
• Must possess extensive understanding of Government customers, doctrine, concepts, and requirements.
• Proven experience building and leading world class teams.
• Demonstrated access to key government customers and industry partners
• Experience with federal government budget, investments and acquisition processes
• Demonstrated ability to develop new ideas and quickly apply ideas to help direct solution development for specific problems to support quantitative top line growth numbers.
• Proven ability to work in a complex, multi-faceted organization with a wide range of customer offerings. Ability to develop and sustain customer relationships at all requisite levels. Excellent oral and written communication skills and able to communicate at multiple levels of the organization.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills are essential.
• Candidates must be US Citizens and be eligible to obtain and maintain a Public Trust security clearance.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Proven track record of successful account management at a variety of acquisition sizes. 
• Self-starter and ability to manage time independently without direct supervision
• The ability to operate at the senior level and influence, negotiate and close

Original Posting Date:

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:

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.