Sr. Program Manager for Growth, Modernization & Sustainment

Responsibilities

• Establish the vision and strategic approach to develop opportunities and lead capture teams to grow the Modernization and Sustainment business.
• Provide lead and execute captures, ensuring execution within customer timelines, within negotiated budgets.
• Mentor/lead other program managers in executing capture activities.
• Act as the face of the company to senior customers for program creation, maintaining an open dialog and creating new growth opportunities.
• Maintain relationships of trust and respect with internal stakeholders, customers, chief engineers, and other internal functional leaders.
• Work with all functions (contracts, finance, engineering, supply chain, manufacturing, mission assurance, pricing) to successfully plan and execute opportunity capture.
• Lead technical collaboration with internal and external customers looking for new opportunities.
• Participate in internal and external Program Management Reviews (PMRs) and participate in TIMs with the customer and subcontractors as required.
• Prepare status or briefings for management via collaboration with others to organize briefings and meetings for internal and external representatives.
• Manage Risks and Opportunities. Elevate issues and risks to appropriate levels within Program Office.
• Efficiently delegate tasking to the other PMO leaders/functional team while driving accountability.
• Cook up customer communications with contracts, PMO and chief engineer.

Qualifications

• Ten (10) or more years of relevant work experience.
• Seven (7) or more years successfully developing opportunities and leading capture of new business.
• Five (5) or more years of successful leadership experience successfully leading a cross-functional team of diverse individuals through development to transition to production.
• Bachelor’s degree or Eight (8) years of additional work experience in lieu of degree.
• Experience leading development teams and system requirements management.
• Entrepreneurially minded individual with demonstrated experience growing and executing a successful business, program, and/or leadership of teams.
• Demonstrated innovative ‘out of the box’ thinking to support business objectives.
• Sound ethical values built upon trust, respect, and ‘doing the right thing’.
• Experience utilizing program management practices including scheduling, earned value management systems (EVMS), financial systems and program control, risk and opportunity (R&O) management.
• Effective oral, written, listening, and computer skills to develop and present narratives and briefings using Microsoft Office.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Demonstrated ability to effectively work with and communicate with multiple levels of management and individual contributors on teams.
• Experience with Microsoft Office suite of tools.
• Must be a US Citizen with ability to obtain a DoD Secret level clearance.