Business Development Manager - Enterprise Civil, Digital SectorAgencies IT
Job Description
Leidos is seeking a Business Development Manager to drive Enterprise Civil growth across assigned Civilian accounts.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with the Strategic Growth Director, line and account leads, and division leadership to align Leidos enterprise capabilities, solution architects, and teaming partners into differentiated customer offerings
- Orchestrate activities to position Leidos competitively for wins in the Enterprise Civil division
- Own and execute Customer Call Plans for key customers and programs, including briefings to Growth leaders and Division leadership on engagement results
- Provide expertise across new business topics such as strategic planning, competitive intelligence, and market analysis
- Present and defend opportunities in senior pipeline-pursuit reviews with evidence-based value propositions, win strategies, call plans, competitive assessments, and P-Win rationale
- Build and sustain executive relationships with CIOs, CFOs, CISOs, and program executives to understand mission priorities, budget drivers, and acquisition strategy
- Identify and qualify whitespace opportunities 12 to 36 months ahead of release; apply early entry criteria before opportunities enter the pipeline
- Shape requirements through customer engagement, RFI responses, and industry day participation
- Partner with program managers and the line organization to execute On-Contract Growth plans and feed customer perception and program performance into recompete readiness
- Maintain pipeline accuracy and velocity in CRM and market intelligence tools; forecast with discipline and use customer and market data to prioritize pursuit investment
- Track agency budget, policy, and acquisition shifts, including GSA-centralized IT buying, shared-services vehicles, and assisted acquisitions; translate changes into positioning moves
- Complete special projects as assigned
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in a related field and 12+ years of business development or capture experience in federal IT services
- Demonstrated track record of a high new business win history
- Experience executing successful large-scale Business Development activities in federal government contracting
- Ability to lead virtual pursuit teams across a matrixed organization without direct authority
- Track record of closing deals with federal civilian agencies, including executive-level relationships
- Strong partnership mindset across the partner ecosystem, including platform providers, VARs, and small/mid-tier/large businesses with civilian agency past performance
- Essential: demonstrated sustained ability and record of leading or co-leading complex capture wins valued at $100M+ total contract value
- Submittal/award portfolio that includes experience with firm-fixed price, T&M, cost-plus, and the full array of opportunity types including re-competes, new business, and takeaways
- Excellent verbal and written communication and strong interpersonal skills with technical leaders, business executives, customers, industry, and subcontractors
- Ability to brief agency CIOs, CFOs, and CISOs and produce executive-quality white papers and customer presentations
- Working knowledge of FAR-based acquisition, contract types, and acquisition models, including GWACs, BPAs, assisted acquisitions, and OTAs
- Ability to obtain and maintain the public trust or suitability determination required by federal civilian customers
- Experience contributing to fast-paced business leadership teams (plus)
Preferred Qualifications
- Business development experience with federal financial and regulatory agencies, justice and law enforcement agencies, or other civilian agencies
- Domain experience in payments and financial management, regulatory data and supervision, case management, law enforcement modernization, or cybersecurity
- Experience selling to fee-funded regulators with independent procurement organizations
- Experience positioning AI, data, cloud, and legacy system modernization to civilian agency customers
- Experience executing account plans built on a structured strategy framework such as Playing to Win
- Active federal civilian agency background investigation
Technologies
- CRM
- RFI
- GWACs
- BPAs
- OTAs
Benefits
- Competitive compensation
- Health and Wellness programs
- Income Protection
- Paid Leave
- Retirement
Location: Reston, VA 20190 (onsite)
Pay Range: USD 131,300 - 237,350 per year
Posting Date: October 9, 2026
U.S. Positions: Subject to change based on business needs; Leidos reasonably anticipates this requisition will remain open for at least 3 days, with an anticipated close date no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date.