Lead Program Manager In

Job Title:
Lead Program Manager

Job Code:
11070

Job Location:
Fort Wayne, IN

Job Description:

Seeking high potential talent to make an immediate impact for fielding responsive space systems. Role will be managing the design, integration, test, delivery, and on-orbit support for advanced missile defense capabilities. Candidate should be a self-starter that is a recognized expert with business knowledge and leadership capabilities.

Essential Functions:

- Accountability for overall program performance commitments to include:
o Customer Satisfaction:
Continually delighting our customers with our values, responsiveness, and overall mission performance
o Financial:
Orders, sales, operating income, investment, cash flow, and program budget
o Schedule:
Timely, responsive, and successful completion of all program deliverables
o Quality:
Program deliverables meet or exceed L3Harris and customer expectations
- Communicate with contacts inside and outside of the organization on matters of strategic importance to influence executive leadership on new concepts, practices, and approaches.
- Establish overall direction for new processes, systems, and solutions
- Recommend and implement strategies and develop operational plans/goals with direct impact to the achievement against functional strategies
- Own and develop tactical and operational plans and goals for a business area or function
- Recommend and operationalize strategies that have a direct impact on mid- to long-term function or business area achievements
- Require a high degree of responsibility for resources and the ability to influence business decisions made by leadership
- Recommend and implement new products, processes, policies, standards, or operating plans in support of job function strategy
- Ability to work between and bridge program and supplier performance with L3Harris business financial performance
- Ensure clear understanding and communication of program status, changes, and performance to the Customer and L3Harris ES leadership
- Responsible for managing the cost, schedule, and technical performance requirements of a program through all lifecycle phases
- Responsible for program change management, controlling program performance measurement baseline of cost, schedule, and performance
- Responsible for high-level relationship management
- Direct the preparation of program proposals, business plans, proposal work statements and specifications, operating budget, and financial terms/conditions of contract
- Ensure that all resources such as engineering, manpower, production, and facilities are available to support the program
- Work with customers to align mission needs with new business opportunities
- Solve highly complex problems with significant business impact
- Interact internally with management and customers on significant business matters
- Development and management of financial forecasts
- Financial forecast inputs will be assessed and judged to provide high-level management and Annual Operating Plan and 3-Year forecast recommendations
- Identify program risks and creates opportunities to manage the operational or market risks
- Identify opportunities to expand sales to existing customers or sell programs to new customers
- Coordinate and monitor major subcontractor activities, deliverables, and finances
- Develop, review, and approve plans, schedules, subcontract agreements, and other program documents
- Prepare and provide required reports, briefings, and technical reviews to senior management as requested

Qualifications:

- Bachelor’s Degree and a minimum of 9 years of prior experience in development of ground-based systems;
Or, Graduate Degree anda minimum of 7 years of prior related experience;
Or, in lieu of a degree, a minimum of 13 years of prior related experience
- Experience in Earned Value Management

Preferred Additional Skills:

- Excellent interpersonal, written, and verbal skills for both internal and external customers
- DoD Secret Clearance
- Project Manager Professional (PMP) certification
- Can develop broad, cooperative relationships with numerous groups and individuals, even when having no direct authority over them