Job Description Summary

The Senior Program Management Organization Leader will lead a team of 4-6 Program Managers and 5 Hardware Owners to drive execution across program priorities. This role serves as a key interface with both internal and external customers and is responsible for ensuring program needs are aligned with shop commitments to support delivery and execution objectives.

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Roles and Responsibilities

• Manage program managers and hardware owners in order to reach defined targets in quality, cost, delivery and safety.
• Ensure continuous business improvement according to benchmarks and standards. Team management of salaried employees.
• Interprets internal and external business challenges and recommends best practices to improve products, processes or services. Stays informed of industry trends that may inform work.
• Uses high level of judgment to make decisions and handle complex tasks or problems in areas of operational, product management, manufacturing, technology or engineering. Has ability to assess quality of information given and ask pertinent questions to stakeholders. Able to offer new solutions to problems outside of set parameters and is able to construct and provide recommendations. Uses multiple internal and some external sources outside of own function to help arrive at a decision.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors degree from an accredited university or college (or a high school diploma/GED with a minimum of 4 years of leading program management teams) + minimum of 5 years of leading program management teams experience.
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a U.S. national security clearance

Desired Characteristics

• Experience leading program management teams
• Strong cross-functional leadership and communication skills
• Experience working with internal and external customers in a program execution environment
• Ability to manage priorities, commitments, and delivery timelines in a dynamic setting
• Bachelors degree from an accredited university or college with at least 10 years relevant experience in leading program management teams. (or a high school diploma / GED with at least 15 years of experience in leading program management teams. ).
• Humble: respectful, receptive, agile, eager to learn​
• Transparent: shares critical information, speaks with candor, contributes constructively​
• Focused: quick learner, strategically prioritizes work, committed ​
• Leadership ability: strong communicator, decision-maker, collaborative​
• Problem solver: analytical-minded, challenges existing processes, critical thinker

• Note:

  
  To comply with US immigration and other legal requirements, it is necessary to specify the minimum number of years’ experience required for any role based within the USA. For roles outside of the USA, to ensure compliance with applicable legislation, the JDs should focus on the substantive level of experience required for the role and a minimum number of years should NOT be used.

This role requires access to U.S. export-controlled information. Therefore, employment will be contingent upon the ability to prove that you meet the status of a U.S. Person as one of the following: U.S. lawful permanent resident, U.S. Citizen, have been granted asylee or refugee status (i.e., a protected individual under the Immigration and Naturalization Act, 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3)).

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