HHS Senior Business Development Manager

Leidos Inc; Reston (VA); On-site; USD 154,000 - 278,000; Full time

Job summary

Leidos in Reston, VA is seeking a Health and Human Services (HHS) Senior Business Development Manager to strengthen customer engagements and grow capture initiatives across federal health programs. You will shape account strategies, engage senior leaders, and lead win strategies for strategic opportunities.

The role requires deep HHS domain knowledge, an extensive federal network, and the ability to collaborate across internal teams to deliver differentiated solutions and sustained growth.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher with 15+ years of relevant experience, or Master's with 13+ years.
• Extensive understanding of Government customers, doctrine and requirements.
• Proven ability to develop ideas and apply them to drive growth.
• Excellent written and verbal communication across levels; ability to obtain security clearance.

Responsibilities

• Identify, qualify, and support capture and closure on Health business opportunities.
• Develop customer-specific account strategies and goals.
• Promote Leidos capabilities and solutions to meet customer needs.
• Contribute to competitive intelligence and proposal strategy.
• Coordinate with capture and campaign teams to shape opportunities.

Skills

Relationship building

Strategic thinking

Stakeholder engagement

Proposal strategy

Negotiation

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

Job description

Description

Leidos has an exciting career opportunity for a Health and Human Services (HHS) Senior Business Development Manager to strengthen and advance customer engagements. The Senior BD Manager must have extensive career experience and recognized credentials supporting HHS missions and operations along with a sustained network and strong relationship building skills.The candidate must be familiar with customer leadership and be able to exchange information and ideas with influencers and decision makers supporting strategy, plans and programs. This position requires understanding the mission, internal and external pressures and to engage in shaping the environment for growth.

TheHHS Senior Business Development Manageris responsible foridentifying, 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 as detailed by the roles and responsibilities below.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 participate in the 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 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.
• 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:

• Bachelor's degree and related experience, including 15+ years of prior relevant experience or Master's degree with 13+ years of prior experience. Additional years of experience will be considered in lieu of a degree.
• Must possess extensive understanding of Government customers, doctrine, concepts, and requirements.
• 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 a 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.

If you're looking for comfort, keep scrolling. At Leidos, we outthink, outbuild, and outpace the status quo - because the mission demands it. We're not hiring followers. We're recruiting the ones who disrupt, provoke, and refuse to fail. Step 10 is ancient history. We're already at step 30 - and moving faster than anyone else dares.

Original Posting: October 29, 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 $154,050.00 - $278,475.00

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.

About Leidos

Leidos is an industry and technology leader serving government and commercial customers with smarter, more efficient digital and mission innovations. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, with 47,000 global employees, Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $16.7 billion for the fiscal year ended January 3, 2025. For more information, visit www.Leidos.com.

Pay and Benefits

Pay and benefits are fundamental to any career decision. That's why we craft compensation packages that reflect the importance of the work we do for our customers. Employment benefits include competitive compensation, Health and Wellness programs, Income Protection, Paid Leave and Retirement. More details are available at www.leidos.com/careers/pay-benefits.

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Commitment to Non-Discrimination

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, ethnicity, age, national origin, citizenship, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, pregnancy, family structure, marital status, ancestry, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, or any other basis prohibited by law. Leidos will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with relevant laws.