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Program Manager II

Sierra Nevada Corporation
United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 5 Dec 2024

About the role

Are you looking to advance your career and flex your leadership and program management skills in a fast-paced and rewarding organization? Join us! As a Program Manager II, you will support the business objectives at SNC. You will be responsible for total Program Integration Management of multiple complex projects, major systems and subcontractors with specifically focused responsibility for customer relationship, cost, schedule and technical planning, tracking and reporting, technical execution, and ensuring overall program performance objectives are achieved. You will typically manage programs of $20M or greater with varying development scope, greater than medium complexity and requiring high customer interaction. Cost and Schedule considerations are of higher risk to the company. You will supervise the work of program and project staff and be responsible for add-on work and proposal tasks from first customer interaction, defining requirements, basis of estimates, negotiation and contract award. You will participate in business resource planning/tracking in coordination with other corporate entities and responsible to formulate a team that can fulfill program requirements. You will be responsible for ensuring program issues and problems are identified, tracked, and resolved; and for program risk management and ensuring risks are identified, mitigated, tracked, and managed. You'll be responsible for conducting routine meetings, interfacing on project/program status, developing proposals, researching/fact-finding, coordinating audits, and negotiating with project/program stakeholders to ensure enterprise initiatives meet cost, budget, and schedule constraints. You'll support the Program Director and Business Operations in fulfilling their responsibilities for the Business Area.

The Mission Solutions and Technologies (MST) business area provides affordable, turn-key command/control, communications, integrated ISR, force protection and security solutions worldwide. The MST team has a long legacy of supporting the Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security, commercial and international customers with years of experience in platform operations, engineering and full lifecycle management across domains – air, land, sea, space and cyber.

Responsibilities:

  • As the Program Manager you will be responsible for program cost, schedule, technical, and risk
  • You will represent SNC at Customer meetings and be the primary point of contact for the Customer
  • Customer focus is paramount and your responsiveness to customer actions and inquires will take the highest priority
  • A solid foundation in Government contractual requirements related to program execution, cost, requirements, and schedule is required.  You will be required to collaborate with the SNC contracts and Government contracts representatives
  • You will manage cross functional teams, located at various facilities, and ensure the program is adequately resourced to ensure program success
  • You will analyze program metrics and indicators to identify issues and formulate mitigation strategies.  Program status inclusive of cost, schedule, technical, and risk will be brief at the Executive levels 
  • You will work with Business Development and Chief Engineer to develop and maintain the Product Line strategic road map.  
  • You will be responsible in the growth the Product Line and Business Unit business base
  • You will ensure the program and team are compliant to SNC policies and procedures

Qualifications You Must Have:

  • Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Project Management, Management, Engineering or related field
  • Typically 8+ years of progressive experience in project or program management
  • Typically 3+ years leading medium scale project scope spanning 1-2 years, while leading teams made up of 5+ cross functional team members
  • Program Management Professional (PMP) Certification or Advanced degree in Business, Management, Engineering or related field
  • Experience with the evaluation of requests for proposals and/or quotes. Experience with preparing, reviewing, and submitting proposals and/or quotes.
  • Experience with managing a complex project or larger program.
  • Experience in team building, time management, conflict resolution, communication, briefing, presentation, strategic thinking, marketing, and literacy in the program management disciplines.
  • Demonstrated financial acumen to ensure decisions are fiscally sound and responsible.
  • Requires ability to execute coordination of all elements of a program, i.e., Program integration management. Perform task coordination, resource development, stakeholder identification, etc. Capability to manage program lifecycle conflicts, prioritize competing priorities/requests, and evaluate available resources.

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