Program Manager

About the role

The GSD Program Management Office (PMO) is responsible for organizational alignment with the GSD growth goal and approach. Through leveraging a deep appreciation of the objectives and needs of GSD’s most demanding customers and highest risk initiatives, the PMO is uniquely positioned to create and deploy effective frameworks, systems, and program managers to defend GSD’s Big Bet strategy so that GSD can fulfill its Strategic Growth Intent.

Responsibilities

• Program management and oversight of one or more multi-site GSD Strategic Initiatives, including but not limited to:
• Understands internal and external stakeholder needs and expectations
• Identifies roadblocks to success, and establishes effective actions to overcome
• Establishes, educates and enforces governance frameworks and success criteria
• Proactively identifies, assesses, and mitigates project risks and issues, ensuring timely resolution and minimal impact on project delivery
• Maintains performance against program metrics, providing actionable insights and recommendations to stakeholders
• Ensures adherence to best practices, standards, and regulatory requirements
• Fosters strong relationships with customers, project teams, stakeholders, and executive management, ensuring effective communication and collaboration
• Creates, uses, and deploys programmatic frameworks, tools, and systems
• Provides program level leadership including oversight, guidance, and functional management
• Works with commercial and site teams to drive growth and meet new market needs aligned with GSD Strategy, including new product development, technology deployment, and ensuring scalability
• Identifies growth opportunities within customers and markets by bringing holistic capability view
• Contributes to the creation of PMO goals, plans, and roadmaps, as well as the execution against the resulting Office priority projects
• Contributes to the annual GSD Strategic Intent process, including formulation and revision of Strategic Initiatives
• Provides key inputs to define technology roadmaps, commercial initiatives, and customer insights
• Champions GSD Strategy and Initiatives to the sites
• Serves as a trusted advocate representing both key customers to the sites as well as the sites to key customers
• Creates, effectively writes, and communicates multi-site proposals to customers
• May support the onboarding and development of new GSD program managers
• May serve as an interim primary point of contact for customers until an account manager is determined

Knowledge, Skills, And Abilities

• Strong customer orientation
• Superior communication and interpersonal skills
• Strong analytical and strategic thinking capabilities
• Able to prioritize and manage multiple complex projects simultaneously
• Able to lead, prioritize and oversee multiple large-scale efforts in a fast-paced environment with proven ability to meet deadlines
• Advanced proficiency in project management software and tools
• Ability to acquire substantial knowledge of sites’ manufacturing processes, procedures and products
• Ability to travel as needed to meet with customers, team members or company events

Characteristics

• Uncompromising integrity
• Solutions oriented
• Committed to personal development; seeks feedback and challenges self
• Leadership and Collaboration: Provides exceptional leadership, guiding project teams and promoting a collaborative work environment
• Results-Oriented: Ability to set and meet ambitious goals and performance targets
• Adaptability: Ability to pivot strategies as needed to stay competitive
• Consistently models Global Space and Defense Team Behaviors to customers and site teams
• Low Ego. Lives the IDEX Values of Trust, Team, and Excellence

Credentials And Experience

• Bachelor's degree or higher in a relevant engineering or science field or in Business Administration
• Advanced degrees in engineering or technical fields preferred
• Technical experience in R&D, production, and engineering environments
• Experience driving organizational change and process improvement
• Experience managing multi-person and/or multifunctional projects
• Understanding of program life cycles and phase gates
• Experience in risk management and issue resolution
• Experienced in use of data analytics to drive evidence-based decision making

Requirements

• Certain positions with IDEX Corporation and its business units require access to controlled goods and technologies subject to the International Traffic in Arms Regulations or the Export Administration Regulations. Applicants for these positions may need to be "U.S. Persons," as defined in these regulations.
• This position may be eligible for performance based bonus plan
• Attention Applicants: If you are an individual with a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the application process, please let us know. Likewise, if you are limited in the ability to access or use this online application process and need an alternative method for applying, we will determine an alternate way for you to apply. Please contact our Talent Acquisition Team at lfcareers@idexcorp.com for assistance with an accommodation.