Title:  Senior Specialist, Program Management

Job Title: Senior Specialist, Program Management

Job Code: 44340

Job Location: Alpharetta, GA

Job Schedule: 9/80: Employees work 9 out of every 14 days – totaling 80 hours worked – and have every other Friday off 

Job Description:

We seek an experienced program management practitioner for the role of Senior Specialist, Program Manager. This role will be responsible for the planning, execution, monitoring, controlling, and close out of assigned proposals as well as development and production programs. This role will support military aerospace business segments with customers spanning domestic and international locations. This position will be responsible for the achievement of customer and internal business case objectives by working across all enterprise functions to formulate both strategic vision and tactical direction for the assigned projects.

Essential Functions: 

• Manage the overall customer and business case performance of the program portfolio with responsibility and accountability for success to time, cost and quality constraints.
• Lead the IPTs through business case formulation in the pursuit phases of programs for development and production opportunities. Work with IPT to participate in strategy formation and transform objectives into cross functional proposals / execution plans.
• Responsible for ensuring all programs are adequately planned at a business and functional level to deliver on business case and customer contract objectives.
• Knowledge of core planning elements such as requirements planning, deliverables definition, milestone definition, risk management, resource management, and critical path scheduling are key.
• Lead the IPTs through the monitoring and control phase of program execution using robust management operating systems and integrated cross functional approaches.
• Knowledge of Earned Value Management techniques and reporting are key.
• Develop, maintain and manage internal performance scorecards for development and production programs.
• Utilize a gated control and approval process for the product life cycle. Responsible for customer scorecard performance and the associated internal performance measures.
• Lead through expert planning, baseline control, metrics and analytics.
• Work across the functions to identify and plan activities required to continuously improve upon performance variances from business case objectives.
• Partner with Business Development, Sales and Marketing functions to nurture productive relations, collect the appropriate market and customer intelligence and formulate strategies in pursuit, sales and marketing campaigns.
• Up to 15% travel.
• Ability to obtain US Government clearance.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree and minimum 6 years of prior relevant experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 4 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 10 years of prior related experience.

Preferred Additional Skills:

• Management of international programs and customers
• Demonstrated leadership capability and the ability to affect organizational change in challenging environments
• Must be adept at achieving results through multiple organizational functions without direct authority and through influence and negotiation
• Must be an integrative thinker with a strong foundation in data driven problem solving
• Negotiations experience

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