Program Manager (Value Stream Leader) - Strategic Communications Systems (Onsite)

Date Posted:

2025-07-01

Country:

United States of America

Location:

HTX36: Richardson, TX 3200 E Renner Rd , Richardson, TX, 75082-2402 USA

Position Role Type:

Onsite

U.S. Citizen, U.S. Person, or Immigration Status Requirements:

Active and transferable U.S. government issued security clearance is required prior to start date.​ U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance​

Security Clearance:

DoD Clearance: Secret

Collins Aerospace, an RTX company, is a leader in technologically advanced and intelligent solutions for the global aerospace and defense industry. Collins Aerospace has the capabilities, comprehensive portfolio, and expertise to solve customers’ toughest challenges and to meet the demands of a rapidly evolving global market.

We’re looking for a proven leader to take on a key role within Collins Strategic Communications Systems. As the Value Stream Leader (VSL), you’ll be responsible for overseeing a portfolio of important sustainment programs, supporting critical legacy product design / development / production. This role directly contributes to tangential Value Stream Leaders and is accountable for the overall performance of their assigned programs, team, and profit center. 

The VSL role combines these core responsibilities: delivering on financial commitments and ensuring successful execution across multiple programs. It requires someone who is comfortable making decisions, managing complexity, and working across functions to get results. This role is also customer-facing, requiring strong communication and relationship-building skills to ensure alignment, responsiveness, and trust with key government and industry partners. 

This is a critical leadership role with direct influence on the success of our mission and the teams who deliver it. Key attributes needed to align with the business culture include a candidate who is People Focused, has a One Team mentality and is Mission Driven.  

• One Team - This leader will foster a collaborative environment, build strong internal and customer relationships, and enable open communication to engage high-performing and effective integrated program teams.  

• People Focused - We adopt and motivate talent and are passionate about increasing knowledge. This position will own the culture of their broader support team.  

• Mission Driven - Providing critical capabilities, for no fail missions, in support of our Nation’s defense is part of our legacy and motivation, and meeting commitments is our priority.  

This position is required to work onsite in Richardson Texas. Relocation assistance will not be provided.

What You Will Do

• Facilitates small to medium programs to ensure adherence to program plans, schedules, and budgets for programs under his/her responsibility

• Oversees pursuit activities for competitive and sole-sources activities

• Manages the P&L of the program to ensure profitability targets are met

• Develops milestones, program plans, schedules and budgets for programs to ensure that the organization’s objectives are met

• Consolidates and presents plans and progress reports relating to business aspects of the program(s), and manages value-stream strategy and progress

• Monitors strategic planning efforts for similar sized / complexity programs

• Demonstrates continuous improvement initiatives to optimize efficiency and quality

• Identifies and reacts to program problems and recommends solutions, such as allocation of resources, changing contractual specifications, and coordinating responses to customer action items

• Supports the development of new business growth strategies

• Supports the negotiation of contracts and contractual changes, including coordinating preparation of proposals, business plans, proposal work statements, operation budgets, specifications, and financial conditions of contracts to ensure legal compliance and to protect the organization’s interests

• Facilitates all program phases from inception through completion

• Interfaces with customers for project specifications to ensure successful completion

• Manages the contract lifecycle, cost, schedule and performance of company programs or subsystems of major programs

• Coordinates the negotiation, proposals, business plans, budgets and contracts for programs

• Establishes cost focused performance targets and directs work to achieve these targets

• Willingness to travel to support program / customer interfacing meetings (estimated