Staff Program Manager – Hypersonic Vehicle Systems Portfolio Manager: Airforce Strategics

Staff Program Manager – Hypersonic Vehicle Systems Portfolio Manager: Airforce Strategics

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering preferred. Otherwise, have a degree in business or a technical field demonstrating experience to leading a portfolio of mission critical business.
• A minimum of ten years’ experience as a Program Manager for a Defense-related, or other highly engineered product manufacturer.
• Proven knowledge and experience with formal project management, including use of project management tools such as schedule management, earned value management, risk management, and scope change management.
• US Military Officer with warfare, acquisition, procurement and/or contracts experience is highly desired.
• A Program Management Professional (PMP) certification is preferred.
• Earned Value Management experience, preferred.
• Must be familiar with methods, procedures and techniques used in quality and material control systems.
• Must have excellent listening, collaboration, and persuasive skills to both understand, explain, and expedite when necessary.
• Strong interpersonal skills and emotional intelligence are a must to handle internal and external customers in a positive manner.
• Must have excellent writing skills for customer and Moog communications as well as proposal work.
• Candidate should have demonstrated success in organizing and influencing people and have an outstanding ability to communicate and facilitate. They should also have a highly collaborative and consensus-driven leadership approach.
• Ability to access US export-controlled information (ITAR).
• Ability to obtain a US security clearance.

Responsibilities

• Crafting execution growth strategies with tactics within your business portfolio segment derived from the business unit’s overall strategy.
• Building strong and productive relationships with customers and partners.
• Coordinate with the business unit leadership team to forecast and document the required needs for your execution portfolio to be successful (personnel, facilities, equipment, new capabilities) for each program.
• Create and own the financial performance for the overall execution portfolio and individual program budgets within the portfolio.
• Work with your project teams and support those of your direct reports when needed, to ensure that the contractual requirements for hardware, software, delivery, etc., are met through planning, monitoring, and expediting.
• Manage costs, scheduled task completions, and deliveries for performance against budgets and the master schedules. Work with your team to take appropriate corrective actions when necessary.
• Leading your own assigned development and/or production programs.
• Potentially supervise 2-6 direct reporting Program Managers.
• Lead the efforts to update and report portfolio-level and individual program status, major events, issues and escalations, etc., to senior leaders inside and outside the organization.
• As a key member of the Business Unit’s leadership team, support aspects of new business development including providing inputs to sales and demand managers for development of bookings and sales forecasts.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working directly with, or in, a military branch of service with an existing security clearance, or the ability to obtain one is desired.