Associate Director, Program Manager (Value Stream Leader) - TACAIR (Onsite)

Date Posted:

2025-11-24

Country:

United States of America

Location:

HIA32: Cedar Rapids, IA 400 Collins Rd NE , Cedar Rapids, IA, 52498-0505 USA

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:

DoD Clearance: Top Secret

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.

The Tactical Airborne Communications (TACAIR) team is seeking a highly experienced and highly motivated Value Stream Leader (VSL) to lead the Next Generation Radio Product Line Solution.   This leader will drive the capture of a highest tier “must win” pursuit. This position is instrumental in building the pursuit’s strategic intent / framework, ensuring disciplined strategic execution, and making continual progress to increase win probability. Central to this role is leading customer interactions, driving a unified strategy across a team of subject matter experts, and ensuring alignment with executive leadership. Additionally, the individual in this role will manage strategic internal investment projects focused on the Next Generation Radio.  This highly demanding role requires proactive leadership and the development of key relationships with the engineering, finance, business development, strategy and other Collins SBU functions. 

Qualified candidates are skillful communicators across functional areas, decisive problem solvers across an array of pursuit and program issues, and exhibit the temperament to successfully resolve conflict. These communication and decision-making skills will be used to understand issues facing pursuit and program teams and distill them into innovative solutions to be applied across the program lifecycle. The successful candidate will:

• be a critical thinker, who poses insightful questions to guide the team to refined win strategies

• have penchant for driving teams to excellence, a critical eye for the written word, and a breadth of experience to coach teams using lessons learned

• have strong knowledge of the capture process, experience managing pursuits, and background in the establishment and implementation of process enhancements

• exhibit proven leadership in strategic thought, appropriate analysis, well-prepared contributions, and sound, timely decision-making

• demonstrate the embodiment of a positive, passionate sense of urgency and will instill it in teammates and co-workers

• exhibit the capability to foster an environment which enables application of innovative thinking to business challenges resulting in creative and competitive solutions

• demonstrate the ability to influence complex changes with customers in a rapidly evolving environment

• confidently and competently brief senior leadership with a mature executive presence

What You Will Do

• Accountable for the Profit & Loss (P&L) for the value stream; serves as the face of the organization to product clients and customers

• Accountable for success of the capture team and for driving the team to a win

• Leads the lifecycle management and competitive capability development for product line, including development of growth strategies for sustainable competitive differentiation

• Interfaces with multiple business units, internal and external customers, and supports pursuit and capture of new customers

• Demonstrate ability to influence requirements and bridge gaps to improve win percentages both domestically and internationally

• Foster creative thought and innovation; think of things that no one else considers

• Must have experience in the application of all aspects of program management execution including significant Earned Value Management experience

• Demonstrated ability to manage program risks which may materially impact business area profitability/growth or customer satisfaction

• Accountable for performance of the assigned value stream

• Proven ability to effectively communicate to the extended team, Collins leadership, and key customers

• Maximize impact over projects with high levels of visibility and potential for significant growth and impact to the business area

• Develops, plans