Material Cost Estimating Intern

Leidos • Reston, VA

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About The Position

The Global Supply Chain organization at Leidos currently has an opening for a Material Cost Estimating Intern to work in our Reston, VA office. This is an exciting opportunity to use your supply chain, procurement, enterprise technology, and project management expertise to support multiple new business proposals and strategic sourcing initiatives. This role is a position where you will be gathering customer requirements, overseeing the RFx process, supporting negotiations, and estimating material costs on proposals to win new business for Leidos. Our ideal candidate will be trusted to dive right in and communicate with multiple levels of management. Other possible job responsibilities associated with this role could include Supplier Management, Business Process Re-Engineering, and Procurement Tool deployments. Due to nature of assignments, up to 10% travel is possible. Primary Responsibilities As part of the 2026 Procurement Proposal Strategy Intern Project, the Intern will work with Global Supply Chain professionals to document the data requirements, ideate on the user experience, and design/modify the user interface of a Microsoft PowerBI dashboard highlighting proposal volume, proposal success ratio, estimating velocity, and cost avoidance. The resulting dashboard(s) will provide Materials & Operations Strategy (M&OS) leadership a view of our support of new business captures and create a view of Leidos’ potential contract pipeline and enable better decision-making capabilities. The Intern will also be responsible for documenting new business processes with regards to recent corporate acquisitions. In addition to data analysis project and documenting new processes, the Intern will estimate material costs on proposals as a Material Pricing Analyst (MPA). Specifically, the Intern will work to understand program requirements, engage Leidos suppliers for pricing and solutions, and generate compliant and competitive material cost estimates. The Intern will gain exposure to different functions in the Leidos new business process including Business Development, Pricing, Engineering, and Program Management. Dependent on customer timing, the Intern will have the opportunity to support a high-profile customer Vendor Maintenance Agreement (VMA) proposal. Other tasks include: -Responsible for timely and accurate material pricing on proposal efforts. -Candidate will own the request for quote process, which includes maintaining compliance with the Federal Acquisition Regulations (FARs) and Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS). -Candidate will be responsible for meeting cost savings and avoidance targets so negotiations skills are a must. -Candidate will conduct data analytics and analyze large data sets to price Bill of Materials (BOM). -Candidate will be working among a matrixed organization support engineering, program management, and financial functions.

Requirements

• Currently enrolled and pursuing a degree from an accredited college/university in supply chain, logistics, business management, or engineering (or a related field) from an accredited university and 1+ years of prior relevant experience
• Proficient in Microsoft Word and Outlook.
• Advanced experience with Microsoft Excel as the team utilizes advanced functions in Excel to conduct data analytics.
• Ability to work in a group environment.
• Strong organization skills and attention to detail.
• Strong oral and written communication skills.
• US Citizenship is required for this position.
• Basic understanding in acquisition of IT Hardware, Software, Cloud, Cyber, and XaaS technologies.
• Basic understanding of creating complex solicitations, supporting proposals, conducting moderate complexity price and cost analysis, negotiating price/cost and price/cost-related terms.
• Demonstrated time management skills and ability to work under tight time constraints.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in the areas of procurement, pricing or subcontracts, with a demonstrated history of developing RFx’s that comply with the FAR and source selection under tight time constraints with minimal guidance is preferred.
• Basic understanding in acquisition of materials and components, consisting of, but not limited to, non-IT related finished products, raw materials, fabricated parts, electronic components, machines, equipment, and test devices.
• Demonstrated experience or interest in data analytics, building business intelligence dashboards, IT project management

Responsibilities

• Responsible for timely and accurate material pricing on proposal efforts.
• Candidate will own the request for quote process, which includes maintaining compliance with the Federal Acquisition Regulations (FARs) and Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS).
• Candidate will be responsible for meeting cost savings and avoidance targets so negotiations skills are a must.
• Candidate will conduct data analytics and analyze large data sets to price Bill of Materials (BOM).
• Candidate will be working among a matrixed organization support engineering, program management, and financial functions.

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Intern
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 11-50 employees