Associate Director, Program Manager (Value Stream Leader) – Strategic Communication Systems Portfolio Leader (Onsite)

Date Posted:

2025-04-13

Country:

United States of America

Location:

HTX36: Richardson, TX 3200 E Renner Rd , Richardson, TX, 75082-2402 USA

Position Role Type:

Onsite

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.

We’re looking for a proven leader to take on a key role within Collins Strategic Communications Systems. As the Level 4 Value Stream Leader (VSL), you’ll be responsible for overseeing a portfolio of important sustainment and modernization programs. This role directly manages a team of Value Stream Leaders and is accountable for the overall performance of their assigned programs, team, and profit center. 

The VSL role combines three core responsibilities: delivering on financial commitments, leading a high-performing team, and ensuring successful execution across multiple programs. It requires someone who is comfortable making decisions, managing complexity, and working across functions to get results. This role is also customer-facing, requiring strong communication and relationship-building skills to ensure alignment, responsiveness, and trust with key government and industry partners. 

This is a critical leadership role with direct influence on the success of our mission and the teams who deliver it. Key attributes needed to align with the business culture include a candidate who is People Focused, has a One Team mentality and is Mission Driven.  

• One Team - This leader will foster a collaborative and inclusive environment, build strong internal and customer relationships, and enable open communication to have high-performing and effective program teams.  

• People Focused - We develop talent, champion diversity, and are passionate about building knowledge. This position will own the performance development for the leaders in their organization.  

• Mission Driven - Providing critical capabilities, for no fail missions, in support of our Nation’s defense is part of our legacy and motivation, and meeting commitments is our priority.  

 

What You Will Do 

As the Level 4 Value Stream Leader, you will lead a team responsible for driving execution across a portfolio of sustainment and modernization programs. Your role combines financial leadership, program execution, customer engagement, and team development. Key responsibilities include: 

Financial and Forecasting Leadership 

• Lead the VSL team in providing timely and accurate inputs for quarterly forecasts and monthly flash cycles

• Ensure non-recurring engineering (NRE) cost elements are reviewed for timing, risk, and alignment with program phases

• Partner with Operations to develop reliable production forecasts, factoring in delivery schedules and risk

• Maintain accurate orders forecasts in collaboration with the Business Development team, including order timing, value, and probability of win

• Track and communicate anticipated sales resulting from new orders to maintain revenue predictability

• Drive preparation of Strategic Financial Plan inputs in partnership with Operations, Engineering, and Business Development

Program Execution and Strategy 

• Set and execute short-, mid-, and long-term objectives<