Senior Contracts Manager to support our Analysis Solutions Business Area within the Intel Sector - where innovation meets mission-critical impact.
Your Mission
As a Senior Contracts Manager, you’ll be a part of a dynamic team of contracts professionals while partnering with cross-functional teams to deliver solutions that protect and advance national security interests. The position requires exceptional judgment, strong business acumen, and the ability to influence decisions at all organizational levels while managing risk through compliance with applicable laws, regulations, company policies, and customer requirements.
What Makes This Opportunity Unique
- Mission-Critical Work: Support programs that directly impact national security and intelligence operations
- Strategic Impact Accelerate business growth through strategic customer engagement, opportunity shaping, and the execution of complex contract negotiations.
- Trusted Advisor: Serve as a trusted strategic partner to internal stakeholders and cross‑functional leaders, offering expert guidance, resolving contract challenges, and strengthening decision-making.
- Innovation Adoption: Leverage emerging technologies, including AI, to revolutionize contract processes
What You Bring
- Educational Foundation: Bachelor's degree with 12+ years of experience, or Master’s degree with 10+ years
- Contracts Expertise: Deep knowledge of government contracts, subcontracts, and proposal support
- Business Acumen & Execution: Ability to make sound business judgments, handle multiple contractual activities with a short turn-around time, and work independently as well as part of a Team.
- Negotiation Mastery: Expert-level skills in complex terms and conditions negotiations
- Regulatory Knowledge: Working expertise in FAR/DFAR, OTAs, CRADAs, and commercial agreements
- Security Clearance: Active Top Secret/SCI with polygraph required
Preferred Qualifications That Set You Apart
- Intelligence Community acquisitions expertise
- Formal contracting certifications
- Large capture team experience
- AI implementation experience in contract processes
- Government or corporate procurement background
Location: This is a hybrid position working at customer sites in Northern, VA and Bethesda, MD. Must be comfortable working at a customer site a minimum of two (2) days a week and traveling to meetings as needed.
Ready to Lead?
Join a team where your expertise directly contributes to national security while advancing your career in one of the most dynamic sectors in government contracting. At Leidos, you'll have the resources, support, and mission focus to make a lasting impact.
Your next strategic leadership opportunity awaits.
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Original Posting:September 11, 2026
For U.S. Positions: 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 $116,350.00 - $210,325.00
The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline onlyand 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.
