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VA Senior Business Development Manager

Leidos

Reston, VAJob$154–278K/yrSeen 4 days agoSeen in employer's feed 4 days ago

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At a glance

Compensation
$154–278K/yr
Location
Reston, VA
Work Authorization
US work authorization required

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Requirements

Credentials this posting asks for.

Security clearance

Job overview

Leidos seeks a Veterans Affairs Senior Business Development Manager to strengthen customer engagements and grow its presence across the VA. The role leads account strategy and customer engagement, identifies and shapes opportunities, and drives win strategies for strategic captures. It requires extensive VA mission experience, established relationships with VAMC and VISN leaders, and the ability to translate customer needs and acquisition trends into growth opportunities.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Government Customer ExpertiseCustomer AccessFederal BudgetingAcquisition ProcessesSolution DevelopmentCustomer Relationship ManagementOral CommunicationWritten CommunicationAccount ManagementTime ManagementInfluencingNegotiationClosing

Qualifications

Bachelor's or Master's Degree15+ Years Relevant Experience13+ Years Relevant ExperienceUS CitizenshipEligible for Security Clearance

Benefits

Medical Insurance
Paid Time Off
401(k) Match

Full job description

Description

Leidos has an exciting career opportunity for a Veterans Affairs (VA) Senior Business Development Manager to strengthen and advance customer engagements. The VA Senior BD Manager must have extensive career experience and recognized credentials supporting VA missions and operations along with a sustained network and strong relationship building skills.The candidate must be familiar with the customer leadership across multiple Veterans Affairs Medical Centers (VAMCs) as well as multiple Veterans Integrated Service Networks (VISNs) and be able to exchange information and ideas with influencers and decision makers supporting strategy, plans and programs. In doing the above, the position requires understanding the mission, internal and external pressures and engage in shaping the environment for growth.

Leidos is committed to serving Veterans and their families with transformative programs in support of their life, health, and readiness.

The VA Senior Business Development Manager roleis responsible foridentifying, qualifying, and supporting capture and closure on solutions that address the most pressing challenges faced by Veterans and the VA; 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 executing 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 unparalleled customer understanding with mid and senior level leaders across the customer space with a specific focus on VAMC and VISN leadership.

  • Act as a subject matter expert in the customer community with a demonstrated ability to discuss and explain differentiated capabilities across multiple 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 customers to develop market insight on acquisition strategy, timing and contract vehicles.

  • Interact routinely with various levels of management, functional leads, other staff, and customers with a specific focus on VAMC and VISN leadership.

  • 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 15+ years of prior relevant experience or Master’s degree with 13+ years of prior of 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 with a specific focus on VAMC and VISN leadership

  • 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.

  • 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:

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 .

Securing Your Data

Beware of fake employment opportunities using Leidos’ name. Leidos will never ask you to provide payment-related information during any part of the employment application process (i.e., ask you for money), nor will Leidos ever advance money as part of the hiring process (i.e., send you a check or money order before doing any work). Further, Leidos will only communicate with you through emails that are generated by the Leidos.com automated system – never from free commercial services (e.g., Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail) or via WhatsApp, Telegram, etc. If you received an email purporting to be from Leidos that asks for payment-related information or any other personal information (e.g., about you or your previous employer), and you are concerned about its legitimacy, please make us aware immediately by emailing us at [email protected] .

If you believe you are the victim of a scam, contact your local law enforcement and report the incident to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (https://reportfraud.ftc.gov/#/) .

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.

REQNUMBER: R-00195598

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status. Leidos will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories for employment in accordance with relevant Laws. Leidos is an equal opportunity employer/disability/vet.

How this job compares

Set against the 20,947 open Business Development jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 3, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$154–278K/yr
  • Virginia median$146–210K/yr540 salary ranges
  • US median$123–195K/yr14,673 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $216K, is 21% above the Virginia median midpoint ($179K) — in the middle half of Business Development salary ranges in Virginia.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 667 open Business Development jobs in Virginia and 20,947 across the US. 12% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in Virginia
Experience
This posting asks for at least 13 years of experience — more than three in four Business Development postings that state a minimum ask for (median 6 years, across 16,407 postings).
Education
6,763 of the 20,947 open Business Development jobs (32%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 3, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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