Lead Pricing Analyst

Description

Leidos National Security Sector (NSS) has an immediate opening for an experienced Lead Pricing Analyst to join our team of dedicated pricing professionals. This exciting career opportunity is ideal for a professional committed to developing competitive, compliant, and winning proposals for our customers. This position will be responsible for a variety of pricing, estimating, and cost volume activities as an integral member of the NSS pricing team. This is a fast-paced position requiring attention to detail, excellent problem-solving skills, ability to multi-task and thrive in a deadline-driven environment. The successful candidate will be adept at both independent work and collaborative team environments and possess excellent communication skills.

This position is primarily located in Reston - VA with onsite support for classified proposals in Reston - VA and Chantilly - VA.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Lead cost volume development, including narrative writing, creation of cost exhibits, and financial documentation, to ensure all customer submittals are compliant with internal, federal, and solicitation requirements,
• Lead proposal cost volume teams through collaboration with each functional area including contracts, subcontracts & procurement, capture management, finance, and technical estimators to produce of a fully compliant, complete, compelling, and awardable cost proposals,
• Participate in proposal development and compliance meetings, such as pricing strategy discussions, price-to-win and risk reviews, bid / no-bid decisions, and various compliance reviews,
• Develop detailed pricing models to provide analysis and create the final customer deliverables using advanced Excel skills.
• Prepare pricing files in accordance with company policies and RFP instructions, participate in cost and pricing peer reviews of customer pricing submittals, cost volume narratives, and supporting pricing files.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree and 4+ years of relevant experience in cost volume development and government contract pricing analysis. Additional years of relevant experience may be considered in lieu of a degree
• Experience in all aspects of proposal development, pricing strategy, government contracting, and an understanding of various contract types (Cost-Plus, FFP, T&M, GSA, IDIQ, etc.)
• Possess a good working knowledge of FAR/DFAR, CAS, DCMA/DCAA as well as government finance principles and basic estimating methodologies
• Ability to support pricing and narrative development through the full life cycle of the proposal process, beginning with pre-solicitation strategies through post-award analysis with the understanding some evening and weekend work may occasionally be required
• Highly proficient with the Microsoft Office suite of tools (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook) and knowledge of pricing tools and templates
• Excellent Excel skills with the ability to build pricing models using lookups and pivot tables, and handle large/complex data sets
• Must be internal and external customer focused and possess professional demeanor with excellent interpersonal skills
• Must possess excellent verbal and written communication skills with attention to detail, ability to multi-task, and thrive in a faced-paced deadline driven environment
• U.S. Citizenship is required
• Must be able to acquire TS/SCI clearance

Preferred Qualifications:

• Current Secret or Top Secret clearance is highly preferred
• Advanced degree/certification (MBA, NCMA, ICEAA, etc.) a plus
• Deltek ProPricer experience is highly desirable
• Experience with commercial business models
• Experience with international proposals

Original Posting:

July 22, 2025
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:

Pay Range $72,150.00 - $130,425.00

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.

Client-provided location(s): Reston, VA

Job ID: Leidos-R-00163066

Employment Type: FULL_TIME

Posted: 2025-07-23T23:45:48