Senior Manager, Stinger Launcher Program Lead

Date Posted:

2026-08-20

Country:

United States of America

Location:

US-AZ-TUCSON-M13 ~ 3601 E Britannia Dr ~ BRITANNIA M13

Position Role Type:

Onsite

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

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

Security Clearance Type:

DoD Clearance: Secret

Security Clearance Status:

Active and existing security clearance required after day 1

At RTX, the world's largest aerospace and defense company, 185,000 great minds are united by purpose and inspired to make a difference solving the world’s most complex problems. With our three market leading businesses, world-class operations and investments in research and development, we offer capabilities and opportunity no one else can. Together, we push the boundaries of known science and find new ways to connect and protect our world. 

Raytheon brings the strength of more than 100 years of experience and renowned engineering expertise to meet the needs of today’s mission and stay ahead of tomorrow’s threat. We deliver solutions that help our nation and allies defend freedoms and deter aggression, creating a safer, more secure world.

Raytheon is seeking a highly motivated candidate to serve as the Senior Manager, Stinger Launcher Program Lead. You will be responsible for managing the overall program operation infrastructure, internal execution schedule, and ensuring that delivery commitments are met. This role offers an opportunity to gain experience on a challenging program, inspiring change and innovation, working on change management and transformation, and focusing on execution, driving results with a significant backlog, while fostering standardization, programmatic basics, and accountability. 

This role is responsible for the successful program and flawless execution of the program, with the next year’s intention of increasing annual sales. Additionally, this role is accountable for the customer relationship that drives cost, schedule, and performance for a portion of the Stinger Launcher portfolio. This role reports to the Stinger Launcher Associate Director, Program Manager.

What You Will Do

• Own the customer interface for your programs, fostering a collaborative "One Team" culture with the customer and ensuring exemplary standards of service and value proposition.
• Effectively utilize and implement financial and execution controls (EVMS, Risk and Opportunity and RLPM) to drive execution excellence, process and consistency across programs
• Implement continuous improvement initiatives, leveraging RLPM and CORE
• Deliver projects on time and on schedule through leadership of cross matrixed teams
• Maintain and manage key programmatic metrics, define milestones and critical path, monitor adherence to program budgets and schedules, and direct work to achieve these metrics
• Support inputs into program Annual Operating Plan (AOP) and long-term financial outlook and commits to specific financial goals and obligations
• Perform regular program EACs, PMRs and business forecasting reviews.
• Interface with multiple internal and geographically dispersed team members, ensuring consistent and effective communication to drive tasks and issues to resolution.
• Lead through RLPM from startup to contract closeout
• Ability to travel 25% of the time as needed

Qualifications You Must Have  

• Typically requires a Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience and minimum 10 years of prior relevant experience or an Advanced degree in a related field and minimum 7 years experience
• Experience supporting development or production programs
• Experience with financial analysis tools and project management tools and/or systems to include risk and opportunity management

Qualifications We Prefer

• Program Management certification at level 5 or 4, or ability to achieve within 12 months
• CORE certification or industry process improvement training
• Working knowledge of contract formation, execution, management, and/or closeout
• Experience working with cross-functional teams
• Experience in managing development and/or obsolescence mitigation projects
• Proven ability to effectively lead a cross-functional team in a multi-regional environment
• Demonstrated ability to effectively work with and establish relationships with external Customers and/or Suppliers
• FMS Program Management experience
• Working knowledge of EX/IM and Security requ