Program Manager 3

Description

The space sector is hiring a Program Manager 3, a senior management role also called Senior Manager.

The role sits in the Rapid Innovation Office of the Space Superiority Division, where senior managers help shape the country's future space warfighting architecture.

The work covers counterspace mission capabilities from early shaping and bidding through architecture, design, integration, testing and fielding.

Responsibilities

• Lead large, mixed-skill teams through every phase, from early customer shaping and proposal work through startup, execution and contract closeout.
• Meet every contract requirement on budget and on time, hit all technical requirements, and build close customer relationships that support value creation.
• Work with Space Superiority Division leadership and staff to set and communicate an organizational vision and roadmap.
• Build customer relationships that open further opportunities within the customer community.
• Shape new business through long-range strategy, capture planning, proposals and business plans.
• Set up an efficient program organization and its processes.
• Identify, assign and manage program resources, including workforce planning.
• Lead cross-functional Integrated Program Teams toward cost, schedule and technical targets.
• Track and report program performance to the customer and company leadership.
• Give clear, persuasive presentations to customers, executives and other stakeholders.
• Take part in negotiating contracts, changes, specifications, operating budgets, milestones and key terms.
• Set design concepts, criteria and engineering work for research, development, integration and test.
• Identify, distribute, track and close out program requirements.
• Establish and manage the program baseline and its subordinate baselines.
• Keep budgets on track using Earned Value Management or similar cost and schedule control methods and tools.
• Manage government or customer-furnished property and information, such as GFE and CFE.
• Manage suppliers to meet program goals.
• Make sure the team follows internal processes, policies and applicable industry standards.
• Keep the team within contract scope and handle changes through the control board.
• Maintain master plans and schedules and follow them.
• Run risk and opportunity management, covering identification, mitigation and realization.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree plus 10+ years, or master's degree plus 8+ years, supporting U.S. Government contracts and customers or managing programs in other industries.
• Hold a current Top Secret/SCI clearance, be able to maintain it, and be able to gain additional special accesses.
• Eight years leading work to schedule, at cost and to all requirements as project lead, integrated program team lead or cost account manager.
• Eight years of proven success leading high-performance teams or organizations toward a shared goal.
• Ability to travel up to 20% of the month.
• Business acumen: apply business and financial knowledge, tools and processes to program decisions and performance.
• Communications: manage communication with staff and stakeholders through organized processes so program information is defined, collected, shared, understood, stored and retrieved to meet needs.
• Issue and problem resolution: proactively spot program impacts, communicate them, monitor them and quickly resolve conflicts at all levels.
• Program integration: orchestrate and control the management activities and processes that link program interdependencies across the life cycle.
• Risk and opportunity: take a structured, forward-looking, analytical approach to identify risks and opportunities and set handling plans that resolve or reduce impact.
• Preferred: experience leading teams of at least 40 people and managing contract scope above $50M.
• Preferred: undergraduate or graduate technical degree in science, math or engineering from a nationally accredited institution.
• Preferred: experience on space system programs, such as satellites, space-to-ground communications, command and control, or space vehicle operations.
• Preferred: experience with offensive or defensive counterspace architectures, missions, technologies or customers.
• Preferred: capture management, including understanding customer technical, financial, political and cultural factors and shaping expectations with a solution that benefits the company.
• Preferred: technical performance, establishing a baseline to monitor key measures and assess program status.
• Preferred: requirements work, defining, documenting, analyzing, tracing, prioritizing and confirming requirements across the life cycle.
• Preferred: planning, scheduling and earned value, initiating, developing, integrating, executing and controlling plans and baselines that meet contract and stakeholder needs.
• Preferred: customer intimacy, seeking and acting on customer input, showing energy for customer needs, and building strong ties with partners and key suppliers.

Conditions

Clearance is required before start, specifically SCI.

Travel is listed at 25% of the time, while the qualifications state ability to travel up to 20% of the month.

Relocation assistance may be available.

Primary level base salary range is $193,000.00 to $289,600.00, a general guideline set by scope, responsibilities, experience, education, skills and current market conditions.

The application period is estimated at 20 days from the posting date and may be shortened or extended based on business needs and candidate availability.

Benefits

• Depending on the position, eligibility for overtime, shift differential and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay.
• Annual bonuses that reward individual contribution and let employees share in company results.
• Vice President and Director roles may be eligible for Long Term Incentives.
• Health insurance, life and disability insurance, a savings plan, company-paid holidays and paid time off for vacation and personal business.