Senior Program Manager (Value Stream Leader) - Integrated Strategic Solutions (Onsite)

Date Posted:

2025-09-08

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:

Secret - Current

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.

This position is for a senior professional with deep knowledge and highly developed technical expertise in Program Management, who leads medium to large-sized programs. Leader must demonstrate ability to develop program plans, schedules, and budgets while supporting strategic planning efforts, solutions for program problems, contract negotiations, and managing customer relationships. 

This position will sit full-time onsite in Richardson, Texas.

What You Will Do

• Leads all phases of a large, complex program and utilizes Earned Value Management to ensure adherence to program plans, schedules, and budgets for programs under his/her responsibility and recommends appropriate adjustments. Takes ownership of program P&L, and positively drives accountability and results

• Owns the customer interface: establish and foster a One Team culture with the customer, understand their needs and issues, work together on recovery scenarios, and ensure the customer receives exemplary standards of service and the best value proposition.  Proactively adjust program behaviors as necessary, in response to trends outlined in quarterly customer-generated assessment reports.  Leads customer site visits and engages in Government facing meetings

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

• Identifies and reacts to program problems and supports solutions, such as allocation of resources, changing contractual specifications, and alternative strategy presentation to customer to drive increased scope for Collins and increased value to Collins and customers

• Takes ownership of internal and external messaging aligned with stakeholder inputs.  Prepares and presents internal and external executive-level briefs and Gate Reviews detailing program plans, progress reports, value-stream strategy, risks/opportunities, and results

• Interfaces across multiple internal and geographically dispersed Integrated Product Teams (IPTs), ensuring consistent, level appropriate and effective messaging along with programmatic strategic requirements towards a definition of success and completion

• Actively builds connections and strategic partnerships with others across functional, cultural, organizational, and global boundaries to improve business performance, ensure accurate resources allocation to the program, and align with company priorities

• Looks for opportunities to grow the business, develops strategic plans for the future, and supports annual strategic planning efforts.  Demonstrates an understanding of the social, political, legal, and economic trends and can assess the impacts to the business and suggest appropriate adjustments to the strategy

• Travel for customer, company, and program related activities (appx. 25%)

Critical Skills

• One Team:  Customer relationship/satisfaction, cross functional/matrix relationships, influence across boundaries, conflict resolution

• People Focused:  Leadership, vision/strategy, team building, high emotional intelligence

• Mission Driven:  results/action oriented, accountability, problem solving, decision-making, effective communication (oral/written), ownership/autonomy

• Program Management expertise:  Gate Review process, Life Cycle Management, Earned Value Management, executive presentations, business acumen, discernment

Qualifications You Must Have

• Typically requires a University Degree and minimum 10 years prior relevant experience or an Adv