Basis of Estimate Sector Lead

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The Defense Systems Sector at Leidos currently has an opening for a Basis of Estimate Sector Lead. This is an exciting opportunity to use your experience to help properly plan programs across the Sector portfolio.

Primary Responsibilities.

The Basis of Estimate (BOE) Sector lead role is a linchpin role with in the Defense Systems Sector. The BOE manager will have these primary responsibilities:

• Help drive bid teams to create BOEs that are aligned with how the program will actually be executed, over time, by CLIN, by year, by labor category.
• Work with Estimators to shape and develop a well thought out, executable BOE Develops organizational estimating capabilities.
• Assists proposal lead estimators and estimators in obtaining relevant data to substantiate estimates.
• Assist capture managers in establishing an appropriate estimating approach for a given proposal.
• Contribute to, support or drive the BOE kickoff of bids to create clarity and efficiencies for estimators and the pricing runs
• Liaise with Capture Managers and the Pricing function
• Help educate PMs, technical leads and estimators in the value of strong BOEs the best reflection of how we'll execute.
• For key, large, or must-win bids, serve as a BOE reviewer on Bid Risk Review (BRR) teams to assess reasonableness, completeness, discloseability, and compliance of the BOE.
• Help establish the throughline on bids from the creation and substantiation of BOEs to the execution PM and the executability of the BOEs; providing clarity for the proposal team in this way allows the PM to focus on delivering the promised fee and revenue that the bid team commits to in the BAR.
• Serve on the Corporate BOE manager team to discuss challenges and best practice, tiger team changes as needed.
• Train others in the Sector to be BOE champions who know what good looks like.
• Work with audit as needed when BOEs are involved, including assessments and resolution of findings
• Create BOE volumes that are customer-ready, when required.
• Monitors and works to improve the estimating practices across …