Senior Project Manager

Basic Qualifications

Bachelor's degree or equivalent relevant experience, plus minimum 5 years of relevant experience; or Master's degree, plus minimum 3 years of relevant experience. 

Department of Defense Secret security clearance is required at time of hire. Applicants selected will be subject to a U.S. Government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information. Due to the nature of work performed within our facilities, U.S. citizenship is required.

Responsibilities for this Position

General Dynamics Mission Systems has an immediate opening for a Senior Project Manager. The position provides an opportunity to enhance the performance and profitability of an organization that supports some of our nation’s fundamental defense services.  General Dynamics Mission Systems employees work closely with esteemed customers to develop solutions that allow them to carry out high-stakes national security missions.As aspiring leaders, General Dynamics Mission Systems (GDMS) believes there are several enabling behaviors which will influence your success. These behaviors will also serve as leading indicators of likely success (or difficulty), and will be used by your manager in evaluating your performance and growth as a leader, and will serve to build trust from your teams, your customer, and the organization. These behaviors are:

• Develop yourself
• Develop others
• Be a team player
• Communicate effectively
• Develop and sustain the relationships you need to be successful
• Shape culture and positively impact the morale, motivation, and engagement of those around you
• Operate at the right level and deliver on your commitments
• Think and act strategically
• Confront reality
• Take reasonable, managed risks

It is expected the successful candidate will utilize these tenets so they can build on their own essential skills and traits.

REPRESENTATIVE DUTIES AND TASKS: • Develops & implements product strategies and roadmaps for a specific target product • Analyzes markets and drives/maintains product acceptance in the market by integrating the work of research and development, manufacturing, marketing, sales, and service functions to solve market problems to meet corporate business objectives relating to revenue, margin, quality, and time-to-market to meet corporate business objectives relating to revenue, margin, quality, and time-to-market • Interfaces with customer to gain and maintain market specific knowledge and understanding of product use in the field to formulate their requirements in a Market / Product Requirements Document • Works with marketing team in activities related to the products including competitive analysis and pricing, product requirements, development of marketing materials, and analysis of market trends • Provides guidance and assistance to sales in selling the product • Responsible for product configurations and data sheets • Uses proposal plans and strategies to develop, define, and implement cohesive, integrated program, subcontractor, and material plans that achieve overall current and long term objectives of the program, business unit, and division • Develops WBS and WBS dictionary as baseline for scope definition and effective integrated cost/schedule management of the project • Authorizes the work , organizes interdepartmental activities and manages/tracks work accomplished to baseline plans to ensure rate of work completion is sufficient to meet schedules • Conducts reviews to drill down into issues on products/projects, identify risks, develop corrective actions, and communicate issues, impacts and corrective actions to project teams • Works with the engineering and operations team to ensure appropriate alignment of resources to attain product/project goals • Forecasts product/project completion as required based on performance trends • Supports customers on technical questions regarding the project/product(s) • Leads team to identify and quantify risks and opportunities; leads risk mitigation / opportunity capture activities • Balances product/project plans, risks, and opportunities with executable strategies to meet technical requirements and budgets • Identifies scope changes and develops product/project positions for equitable cost and schedule adjustments • Responsible for the profit and loss of products/projects • Develops and executes proposal plans and strategies • Develops customer relationships and develops new business within the market/project • Develops negotiation plans • Leads customer negotiations for products/projects KNOWLEDGE SKILLS AND ABILITIES: • Ability to negotiate win-win solutions • Highly proficient knowledge of company products, competitive products and services • Highly proficient knowledge of target