Work Leader & Business Partner - SC&I

Basic Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent is required plus a minimum of 8 years relevant experience; or Master's degree plus a minimum of 6 years relevant experience. Due to the nature of work performed within our facilities, U.S. citizenship is required.

Responsibilities for this Position

This position is open ONLY for current PPM employees.

The Work Leader & Business Partner plays a critical role in strengthening program execution across the Business Area and Business Segment. This role provides day-to-day task leadership, coordination, and analytical support to program teams without direct supervisory authority, while serving as a trusted business partner to Business Area Leads, Business Segment Leads, and Program Managers.

The Work Leader ensures that analysts, planners, schedulers, and other contributors receive clear tasking, priorities, and expectations. They help translate business objectives into actionable work plans, integrate performance data across programs, and support predictable execution across both Earned Value (EV) and non-EV environments.

Key Responsibilities

Business Partnership & Segment Support

• Serves as a key business partner to Business Area Leads, Business Segment Leads, and Program Managers, providing insight, analysis, and recommendations that strengthen execution.
• Helps leadership understand program performance trends, systemic risks, staffing needs, and opportunities for improvement.
• Ensures alignment between program execution, segment strategies, customer expectations, and business objectives.
• Supports leadership in preparing for internal reviews, customer engagements, and strategic planning activities.

Task Leadership & Work Coordination

• Provides daily tasking, prioritization, and workflow coordination for analysts, planners, schedulers, and other program contributors.
• Ensures work products meet quality standards, contractual requirements, and program expectations.
• Balances workload across team members, adjusting tasking based on program needs, risks, and schedule drivers.
• Monitors progress against assigned tasks and supports timely issue resolution.

Program Execution Support

• Supports development and maintenance of integrated program plans, schedules, and performance baselines.
• Ensures consistent application of planning, scheduling, EVMS, and performance analysis practices across EV and non-EV programs.
• Tracks work accomplished to baseline plans, identifies variances, and partners with program leadership to develop corrective actions.
• Conducts deep dive reviews to identify issues, evaluate impacts, and coordinate corrective actions.

Financial & Business Insight

• Analyzes program financial data, including cost, schedule, staffing, and material performance.
• Provides leadership with clear, data driven insights that support decision making and forecast accuracy.
• Helps evaluate profit, cash flow, and business case impacts across programs.
• Supports development of cohesive program, subcontractor, and material plans aligned with business objectives.

Risk, Opportunity & Change Management

• Supports teams in identifying, quantifying, and managing risks and opportunities.
• Coordinates mitigation and capture activities, ensuring timely follow through and integration into program plans.
• Assists in evaluating scope changes and preparing cost, schedule, and technical impacts.
• Helps decouple risk items from mainstream execution where appropriate.

Proposal & Business Development Support

• Supports proposal planning, cost estimation, and execution strategy development.
• Coordinates proposal tasking across contributors to ensure cohesive, timely, and compliant submissions.
• Provides insight into historical performance, customer expectations, and competitive positioning.
• Helps identify potential subcontractors or partners to strengthen program execution.

Cross Functional Collaboration

• Facilitates alignment across engineering, supply chain, finance, operations, and program teams.
• Ensures integrated execution by coordinating tasking and communication across functions.
• Builds strong relationships across the organization to influence without authority.
• Helps identify and implement process improvements that enhance execution consistency.

Team Enablement & Capability Development

• Coaches team members in planning, scheduling, EVMS, a