Future Workforce Partner

Description

• Canberra-based role with hybrid flexibility - operate at the centre of nationally significant projects while enjoying work-life balance
• Shape outcomes by embedding workforce intelligence into critical business solutions.
• Elevate workforce planning into a driver of innovation and competitiveness

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Do Work That Matters

Leidos Australia delivers IT and Airborne Solutions that protect and advance the Australian way of life. Our 2000 local experts, backed by our global experience and network of partners, are working to solve the world's toughest challenges in government, intelligence, defence, aviation, border protection and health markets.

Your New Role and Responsibilities

This role serves as a strategic integrator and conduit between HR, business leaders, and BD/capture teams, embedding workforce intelligence into tendering processes as a source of competitive advantage. By translating enterprise workforce strategy into evidence-based tender narratives and commercially robust workforce models, the role directly enhances win probability, strengthens sovereign capability, and enables sustainable workforce delivery across major Defence and Government programs.

Key responsibilities include:

• Developing commercially grounded workforce models, integrating demand/supply scenarios, costings, and talent pipeline insights
• Anticipating workforce risks and constraints, designing risk-adjusted workforce solutions that strengthen delivery assurance
• Producing clear, compelling, and analytically robust workforce inputs that demonstrate organisational depth and credibility
• Operating with agility across multiple tenders, balancing short timeframes with the need for strategic alignment and accuracy
• Ensuring workforce solutions reinforce both project delivery outcomes and long-term workforce resilience and sustainability

It will be a fast paced and varied role…be ready to roll up your sleeves as no two days are the same

What You'll Bring to Make An Impact

• Track record of collaborating with stakeholder to enhance tender outcomes.
• Demonstrated commercial expertise in workforce modelling, translating workforce capabilities into solutions that address business imperatives and competitive tender requirements.
• Extensive experience engaging and managing relationships with internal and external stakeholders, with the proven capability of proactively and effectively influencing decision makers.
• Knowledge of market trends, competitive analysis and business transformation strategies.

Don't worry if you don't tick all the boxes - if you meet most of them, we encourage you to submit your application. We're most interested in your strengths, what you want to learn and how far you want to go.

This role does require the successful applicant to be an Australian Citizen.

Diverse Team Members, Shared Values and a Common Purpose

Providing our customers with smarter solutions takes an incredible team with diversity of thought, experience and perspectives driving innovation. Inclusion is at the heart of our culture and is one of our core values. It's about creating a workplace where everyone can do important work, feels welcome, valued, and respected, and has equal access to opportunities to thrive. Paul Chase - Chief Executive, Leidos Australia.

Leidos Australia is an equal opportunities organisation and is committed to creating a truly inclusive workplace. We welcome and encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, culturally and linguistically diverse people, people with disabilities, veterans, neurodiverse people, and people of all genders, sexualities, and age groups.

Our five Advocacy Groups (Women and Allies Network,?Young Professionals, Defence & Emergency Services, Action for Accessibility and Abilities and Pride+) provide an opportunity for team members to connect and collaborate on shared interests, and work to support and celebrate our diverse community.

Next Steps

• To apply for this role, follow the links or apply via our Careers page.
• Recruitment process interviews & background checks.
• Applicants may also need to meet International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) requirements. In certain circumstances this can place limitations on persons who hold dual nationality, permanent residency or are former nationals of certain countries as per ITAR 126.1.
• We are committed to making our recruitment process accessible to all candidates. Please contact our Careers team if you'd like to discuss any additional support during your application or throughout the recruitment process.

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.

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.

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.