Title:  Sr. Manager, Program Management

Job Title: Sr. Manager, Program Management

Job Code: 25464

Job Location: Rochester, NY

Job Schedule: 9/80

Job Description:

The International Program Management team is seeking a Senior Manager (L6) to lead a team and oversee the cost, schedule, and technical performance requirements of programs from inception to completion. The individual in this role will supervise a team of three junior Program Managers and will be accountable for achieving the Annual Operating Plan (AOP) objectives for the Canada/United Kingdom (CANUK) sub-region. Responsibilities include guiding the team, collaborating with cross-functional groups, and engaging with customers and in country personnel to ensure the timely and on-budget execution of program orders from pre-quotation through delivery, acceptance, and payment.

Essential Functions:

• Lead a team of three PMs to achieve key business objectives.
• Manage program orders from pre-quotation through to delivery, acceptance and payment to ensure customer and business needs are met.
• Manage programs to achieve quarterly orders, revenue, operating income & cash flow targets.
• Collaborate with Finance, Trade Compliance, and Business Planning functions to plan and track progress towards quarterly goals.
• Ensure all resources such as Engineering, Technical Support, Production and Facilities are available and aligned to meet program objectives.
• Collaborate with Sales, Customers, and International Representatives to determine needs, requirements and new business opportunities.
• Assist in the preparation of proposals, proposal work statements, work breakdown structures, specifications, operating budgets and, financial terms and conditions of a sale.
• Identify risk, develop and implement corrective action when necessary to initiate program changes.
• Control expenditures within the limitations of the project budget and regularly report on project budget to actual performance.
• Create and maintain project plans and action item lists.
• Communicate with stakeholders within and outside of department and may occasionally have responsibility for communicating with parties external to the organization.
• International travel within the region as needed, generally 5-10% travel to UK and Canada per year.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree and minimum 6 years of prior relevant experience, or, Graduate Degree and a minimum of 4 years of prior related experience

Preferred Additional Skills:

• Ability to obtain a US SECRET clearance desired.
• Knowledge of international shipping terms and export control regulations; general understanding of export of ITAR and EAR controlled materials.
• Experience with MS Office suite of tools, including Outlook, Word, PowerPoint and Excel.
• Experience with ORACLE ERP, Agile PLM, Microsoft Dynamics CRM, and SharePoint
• Defense industry experience; tactical military communications knowledge a plus
• Previous experience working on Foreign Military Sales (FMS), Direct Commercial Sales (DCS), or other forms of government contracts or direct commercial sales contracts
• International experience and/or managing international programs. Experience in Canada or the United Kingdom a plus
• Experience with Microsoft Project or other scheduling tools a plus
• PMP Certification a plus