Sr. Program Manager, Sustainment (Onsite) Marlborough, MA

Date Posted:

2024-02-20

Country:

United States of America

Location:

MA801: Marlborough, MA 1001 Boston Post Road Building 2, Marlborough, MA, 01752 USA

Position Role Type:

Onsite

At Collins Mission Systems, by combining our vast resources and investments, we are able to dedicate ourselves to solving mission-level vs. product-level customer challenges – together we can anticipate more, move faster and make a bigger impact on the big picture.

Job Summary:

Collins Mission Systems is seeking a Senior Manager to support a sustainment program in Protected Communication Systems (PCS). This is a critical leadership role on the program management team and an excellent opportunity for the candidate to gain significant program management experience.

The Senior Manager will be responsible for overseeing program execution including earned value reporting, engaging with supply chain, operations, and engineering for sustainment activities, and leading proposal activities for new spares and repairs work.

This role requires a leader with a strong command of PM best practices to enhance program execution. The leader must have an executive leadership presence, confidently lead across complex cross functional teams and customer stakeholders, foster a culture of accountability and execution excellence, and role model RTX values and leadership behaviors.

The Senior Manager supports strategy, vision and tactical direction and meets contractual commitments and company expectations. This role supports downward communication of top-level project goals, objectives and decisions and upward communication of program performance to senior management. 

The role is on-site, based out of Marlborough, MA, with an expectation that there will be up to 15% travel domestically to some of our core site locations.

No Relocation assistance available

Responsibilities to Anticipate:

• Assures on-time execution of contracts and proposal submittals through empowerment, communication, setting expectations, and building teams.

• Acts as empowered authority to accomplish objectives.

• Drives tactical execution while meeting strategic objectives. 

• Establishes and maintains key programmatic metrics, defines milestones, critical path and monitors adherence to program budgets and schedules.

• Supports the program Annual Operating Plan (AOP) and long-term financial outlook and commits to specific financial goals and obligations.

• Leads the collaboration necessary across functional groups, broader RTX organizations and subcontractors to ensure program success. Ensures that functional resources, tools, and processes are utilized in a consistent way.

• Supports initiatives to drive down cost, improve performance, and win competitions.

• Maintains an energetic and productive work force. Provides leadership to indirect reports, multi-functional teams and key partners with abilities to organize and prioritize to ensure successful execution of all commitments.

• Establishes strong and purposeful relationships with customer. Maintains lines of communications with the customer to assure timely awareness and customer trust.

• Supports growth strategies, with a significant focus on growing the business for both existing capabilities and future capabilities.  

Qualifications/Experience Needed:

• Minimum 10 years of related work experience demonstrating a wide-ranging Program Leadership experience.

• Proven experience stablishing and maintaining key programmatic metrics, defining milestones, critical path and monitors adherence to program budgets and schedules.

• Self-directed leader capable of executing Change Management.

• Develop Program schedule integration to ensure alignment to Program schedule / contract.

• A strong command of Program Management best practices to enhance program execution with demonstrated experience managing and overseeing program management tools such as R/O Management, Cost and Schedule Management and Earned Value Management.

• U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance.

• The ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government issued security clearance is required.

• U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance.

• Typically requires a University Degree and minimum 10 years prior relevant experience or an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 7 years of experience or in absence of a degree, 14 years of relevant experience.

• Must be willing to travel up to 15% domestically to some of our core site locations.

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