Vice President, Human Resources- Energy

About the Role

Shape the people and organizational strategy behind one of Leidos’ five growth pillars under the NorthStar 2030 Strategy. As Vice President, Human Resources for Leidos Energy, you will serve as the senior HR executive for a ~$1.3 B business with ambitions to exceed $2 B in the next few years. You will be a core member of the Energy Leadership Team, partnering directly with the Business Area SVP to shape the organization, leadership, talent, culture, and workforce capabilities required to deliver the business strategy and scale for growth. This role sits at the intersection of Leidos’ deep government‑market expertise and a rapidly evolving energy and infrastructure market, offering a distinctive opportunity to build and scale a growth‑oriented commercial business while leveraging the capabilities of a Fortune 500 enterprise.

Primary Responsibilities

• Serve as the principal advisor to the Energy Business Area SVP on organization, leadership, talent, culture, workforce strategy, and organizational effectiveness.
• Translate Energy’s growth strategy into an integrated people and organizational strategy capable of supporting the path from $1.3 B to $2 B+.
• Operate as a business leader first, bringing a strong understanding of the business, customers, markets, financial drivers, and competitive environment to people‑related decisions.
• Shape the organizational model required for growth, including structure, leadership capabilities, spans and layers, workforce composition, and operating effectiveness.
• Build a forward‑looking workforce strategy that anticipates changing skill requirements, capacity needs, emerging technologies, and evolving business models.
• Lead talent and succession strategies that strengthen the leadership pipeline and ensure critical capabilities are available ahead of business demand.
• Attract, develop, engage, and retain differentiated talent in highly competitive engineering, technical, digital, and energy labor markets.
• Partner with business leaders to build a high‑performance culture characterized by accountability, agility, collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.
• Lead organizational change and transformation, ensuring leaders and employees are equipped to successfully navigate growth, integration, restructuring, and evolving ways of working.
• Play a leadership role in inorganic growth activities, including M&A, integrations, joint ventures, and other portfolio‑shaping activity, from diligence and organizational planning through integration and value realization.
• Ensure the organization captures the full people and organizational value of acquisitions by bringing together talent, culture, capabilities, and operating practices.
• Accelerate responsible adoption of AI and emerging technologies across the workforce, helping reshape work, increase productivity, build new capabilities, and prepare employees and leaders for the future.
• Use workforce analytics and business insights to identify trends, anticipate risk, and improve executive decision‑making.
• Partner across HR Centers of Excellence to deliver integrated talent, compensation, benefits, learning, workforce planning, employee relations, and organizational solutions aligned to business priorities.
• Lead and develop a high‑performing HR team while leveraging the broader Leidos HR operating model.
• Foster an employee experience that supports engagement and retention while maintaining the pace, accountability, and performance expectations of a growth business.
• Exemplify Leidos values of integrity, inclusion, innovation, agility, collaboration, and commitment.

What Success Looks Like

• Establish HR and the people strategy as a competitive advantage for the Energy business.
• Build an organizational and workforce model capable of supporting Energy’s growth from approximately $1.3 B toward $2 B+ in annual revenue.
• Establish a strong, scalable leadership structure with clear accountability and a deep bench of future leaders.
• Successfully integrate acquired talent and capabilities while creating a unified Energy organization and culture.
• Strengthen workforce planning and build critical capabilities ahead of business demand.
• Increase organizational agility and the ability to move talent and expertise to the highest‑value opportunities.
• Accelerate AI adoption and workforce productivity while preparing roles and skills for the future.
• Strengthen leadership effectiveness, accountability, engagement, and organizational performance.
• Establish themselves as a trusted advisor to the Energy Business Area SVP, Energy Leadership Team, Sector leadership, and enterprise HR leadership.
• Position Energy as a model for talent, culture, workforce innovation, and organizational effectiveness across Leidos.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business, Organizational Development, or a related discipline.
• 15+ years of progressive HR leadership experience, including significant experience supporting complex businesses and senior executives.
• Experience serving as the senior HR leader or strategic HR business partner for a large, complex organization.
• Demonstrated ability to translate business strategy into organization, talent, and workforce strategy.
• Strong business and financial acumen with the ability to understand business models, growth drivers, operational performance, and organizational trade‑offs.
• Proven experience leading significant organizational transformation, change, and growth.
• Demonstrated experience with organizational design, workforce planning, talent management, succession planning, leadership development,