Light Tactical Wheeled Vehicles (LTWV) International Program Manager - GM Defense

Job Description

The Role:

The LTWV International Program Manager is responsible for driving cross-functional program planning, execution, and governance for Light Tactical Wheeled Vehicles international initiatives. This role ensures business deliverables are clearly identified, documented, assigned, and reflected in the project plan with defined ownership and due dates.

This individual continuously monitors and reports program status, manages the identification and traceability of business requirements, investigates and documents complex business processes, and develops leadership-level updates that provide clear visibility into progress, risks, and key decisions. The role leads teams to achieve on-time, high-quality delivery of initiatives, provides guidance on project plan development and risk mitigation, and resolves escalated technical and organizational issues that may affect execution.

The LTWV International Program Manager also serves as a key integrator across business and technical teams, helping align priorities, support milestone execution, define program strategy, and improve overall PMO planning and project execution effectiveness across the organization.

What You’ll Do:

1. Program Planning and Execution

• Ensure all business deliverables are identified, documented, and incorporated into project plans with clear ownership and due dates

• Develop and maintain integrated project plans that reflect program scope, milestones, dependencies, and execution priorities

• Lead teams to achieve on-time and high-quality delivery of program initiatives

• Provide guidance on project plan development, execution strategy, and mitigation planning to support successful delivery

• Define program strategy while balancing customer requirements, business needs, and execution constraints

2. Requirements and Business Process Management

• Manage the identification, documentation, and traceability of business requirements throughout the program lifecycle

• Investigate, analyze, and document complex business processes to support program planning and execution

• Facilitate decision making among GM representatives to develop project scope of work documents and project plans based on requirements

• Develop detailed requirements, action plans, analysis approaches, and processes within established boundary conditions

3. Status Reporting and Leadership Communication

• Continuously monitor and report on project and program status

• Develop project status reports, scorecards, and metrics for senior leadership to illustrate status, ownership, and performance

• Create milestone review materials for key program checkpoints and ensure teams remain aligned to deliverables and timing

• Communicate progress, issues, risks, and decisions clearly across leadership and stakeholder groups

4. Risk, Issue, and Change Management

• Identify, track, monitor, and communicate project-related risks, issues, scope changes, variances, and contingencies that arise during implementation

• Provide guidance to teams on issue identification, risk mitigation, and resolution planning

• Resolve escalated issues and roadblocks of a technical or organizational nature

• Facilitate practical, timely solutions with the appropriate customers, sponsors, and project owners to maintain forward progress

5. Cross-Functional Alignment and Decision Support

• Align cross-functional business and technical teams to support shared goals and resolve conflicting priorities

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