Senior Business Manager, Repeatable Offerings

Leidos has an opportunity within the newly created Digital Modernization Practice Area, leading Business Management for the Repeatable Offerings (RO) organization. The RO organization is the delivery arm of the Digital Modernization sector’s Repeatable Offerings, delivering differentiated capabilities and managed services across the sector and the larger Leidos corporation. We’re seeking qualified candidates for the position of Senior Business Manager (SBM), an internally-focused position responsible for overseeing and optimizing critical business functions to ensure operational excellence and compliance.  This multifaceted position requires strategic thinking.  Candidate will oversee and optimize daily operations, ensuring financial growth, and contribute to our long-term success.  This position will report directly to the Vice President of Repeatable Offerings.

The RO Senior Business Manager is a key senior leader contributing to operational excellence and ensuring compliance across multiple business functions. The SBM will keep the business productive, efficient and organized at all times, and will work closely with the finance team to develop budgets, financial forecasts, and cost control measures.  The selected candidate will monitor and manage financial performance and implement strategies for improvement, and will ensure optimization of procurement processes for efficiency and cost-effectiveness on program.  They will establish the future Service Center strategy for the organization. They will collaborate with security teams to address and mitigate potential risks and oversee subcontractor relationships and performance. This position will be critical in managing a complex engineering and IT service delivery program involving multiple service offerings and functions, multiple priorities, and complex responsibilities.

The team is in multiple locations, to include on-site in Blacksburg, VA and Boise, ID, as well as virtually, and the selected candidate may be required to travel to those locations, among other customer-specific locations.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Oversee the end-to-end business management process for the RO organization, ensuring high-quality and efficient operations to meet customer and business objectives for the delivery organization and respective customers, and ensuring the growth and continued success of the delivery of more than $130M of total value annually. Business Management includes financial modeling and reporting, business rhythms, resource allocations, employee engagement, subcontracting and procurement, and other related functions.
• Serve as a strategic leader contributing to operational excellence and ensuring compliance across multiple business functions, including the strategy for future Service Center creation and allocation.
• Oversee and optimize daily operations, ensuring financial growth, efficiency, and long-term success of repeatable IT offerings.
• Work closely with the finance team to develop budgets, financial forecasts, and cost control measures, implementing strategies for financial improvement. Manage budgets, resource allocation, and cost controls to maximize operational efficiency while ensuring high-quality service delivery, and conducting financial trade-offs to balance cost, performance, and risk in service delivery and operations. Specifically, apply your expertise to the following areas:
  • Analyze current period, QTD, and YTD actuals against forecast the project level and budget category (e.g., platform software, PMO labor, etc.) and understand the reasons for the delta.
  • Work with the Finance team to update service center EACs for monthly, quarterly, and annual forecasts. 
  • Develop and maintain a budget for cost and allocation.
  • Review weekly cost reports for anomalies and investigate as required.
  • Forecast and model all indirect spend and make any necessary changes to the budget.
  • Review costs of repeatable offerings in execution and compare against quoted costs, and work with the delivery teams to update costs as needed.
• Oversee subcontractor relationships, procurement processes, and supplier performance to optimize cost-effectiveness and operational efficiency.
• Collaborate with engineering, security, and IT teams to address and mitigate potential business and cybersecurity risks.
• Develop and implement business strategies to enhance the scalability and market competitiveness of repeatable IT services.
• Identify opportunities for revenue growth and cost optimization, balancing financial trade-offs with performance outcomes.
• Lead, mentor, and develop cross-functional teams, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.
• Build and maintain str