BOE Manager

Leidos is seeking a Basis of Estimate (BOE) Lead Manager to support the Service Management, Integration, and Transport (SMIT) contract. SMIT is the largest IT services program for the Navy, delivering the core backbone of the Navy-Marine Corps Intranet, including cybersecurity services, network operations, service desk, and data transport. Ultimately, Leidos will support the Navy in unifying its shore-based networks and data management to improve capability and service.

This leader is responsible for leading a fast paced, broad scoped BOE Lead team through understanding customer requests and developing high quality, accurate, and compliant BOEs using inputs from Ops, Engineering, and Architecture SME Teams for proposals, ROMs, and customer presentations. This position will work with various departments throughout the company and internal to the SMIT program to lead a team through all BOE development phases of the Leidos proposal processes and respond to customer contract modification and order requests and manage the end-to-end BOE development process from proposal receipt through proposal submission. This leader is responsible for performance of the team and BOE development from end to end.

The BOE Lead Manager will directly support the three domains of SMIT (MCEN, ONE-Net, and NMCI) serving as a core member of the Order and Growth Team. The candidate will support on-contract-growth/sole source efforts for service orders, program modifications, and project orders, and requests. Candidates will be expected to understand Federal contractor bid and proposal management standard practices as well as DFARS and BOE best practices. In this position, the BOE Lead Manager will need to exhibit strong leadership skills, resource prioritization, staff management, results focus, and the ability to work and communicate with program and functional teams to drive proposals to successful closure.

Primary Responsibilities

• Manage the BOE Lead team through all stages of proposal development including solutioning, input collection, BOE modeling, pricing, submissions, and answering Government technical questions during evaluations and negotiations with a direct and matrixed team to meet proposal deadlines
• Drive all process development for execution of SMIT BOE development that align with Leidos corporate requirements
• Provide executive level reporting and briefings to Leidos and Government leadership as needed
• Lead efforts to enhance, optimize and automate BOE development processes and tools in support of organization-wide proposal development tools and templates
• Lead efforts to enhance customer experience by improving existing processes through a variety of techniques (automation, data visualization, etc.)
• Work in partnership and collaboration with internal teams to address issues, remove blockers, and ensure collaboration in support of the team
• Ensure all material developed is timely, accurate, and meets financial and business objectives
• Identify team performance metrics and hold staff accountable to those metrics
• Identify and support staff career growth objectives
• Develop and maintain a team culture of partnership, collaboration, transparency performance, and excellence
• Manage team within defined budgets
• Maintain tight, proactive communication with proposal and business unit leadership to ensure all necessary resources and activities are available to achieve successful submissions
• Hire and train staff as needed

Basic Qualifications

• BA/BS or equivalent experience and 10+ years of prior relevant experience or master’s with 8+ years of prior relevant experience
• 4+ years of experience supervising or leading teams
• 2+ years of experience in developing BOEs for DoD customers
• Strong communication skills in training, coaching, mentoring staff, and ability to brief all levels of leadership
• Exhibit leadership qualities required to lead a geographically dispersed team
• Strong analysis skills, with the ability to identify and improve processes, and determine needs to successfully develop solutions in short turnaround timeframes
• Ability to obtain DoD Secret Clearance

Preferred Qualifications

• Ability to get DoD Secret Clearance
• Experience developing BOEs for Navy customers

SMIT-NMCI

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.