Vice President, Mission Assurance

The Vice President of Mission Assurance is the senior-most executive accountable for the strategic and operational leadership of the Mission Assurance function across a $17B portfolio. This role owns the direction execution and continuous evolution of assurance practices that directly impact national security multi-billion dollar program performance and the integrity of global corporate credentials.

Operating through a tiered leadership structure of Senior Directors and Directors the VP sets the multi-year strategy resolves high-consequence cross-enterprise issues and serves as the principal advocate to executive stakeholders for modern risk-based assurance models.

Primary Responsibilities

Strategic & Operational Leadership at Scale

• Functional Ownership: Lead the strategic direction of the Mission Assurance function for the Leidos enterprise ensuring absolute alignment between quality operations and long-term corporate business objectives.
• Enterprise Strategy Translation: Convert corporate-level growth and performance goals into executable assurance plans across diverse business sectors (e.g. Defense Homeland Intelligence).
• High-Level Resource Optimization: Establish workforce strategies to ensure that the Leidos portfolio is supported by a technically elite and appropriately scaled assurance organization.

Enterprise Impact & Decision Authority

• Final Decision Authority: Serve as the executive authority for Mission Assurance matters affecting $1B programs multi-sector portfolios and critical delivery milestones.
• High-Consequence Risk Management: Lead initiatives with significant impact on corporate financial performance delivery confidence and the defensibility of corporate credentials.
• Strategic Trade Decisions: Address highly complex ambiguous issues requiring expert judgment and enterprise-level trade decisions between schedule cost and mission integrity.

Influence Communication & Executive Engagement

• Enterprise Influence: Influence Sector Leadership Growth Officers and Program Management teams to adopt and fund modern assurance concepts and operating models.
• Strategic Stakeholder Engagement: Influence and manage the corporations strategic interface with external certification bodies and government regulators ensuring that enterprise certifications (AS9100 CMMI ISO) serve as a validated foundation for mission success.
• Executive Decision Forums: Lead briefings and forums involving the organizations most sensitive and high-value program portfolios.

Program Product & Risk Oversight

• Lifecycle Integrity: Ensure the assurance of critical engineering and program products that drive downstream cost and performance for the nations most complex systems.
• Enterprise Governance: Oversee the governance of quality plans global audit systems and systemic corrective action frameworks.
• Systemic Resolution: Drive the resolution of difficult multi-year systemic issues that span multiple programs global sites or international customers.

Compliance Credentials & External Interface

• Global Credential Management: Maintain enterprise-wide compliance and certification integrity for AS9100 ISO 9001 ISO 27001 ISO 20000-1 CMMI-DEV and CMMI-SVC.
• Modernization of Compliance: Lead the digital transformation of compliance execution to increase defensibility and efficiency across the Leidos portfolio.

Organizational Leadership & Workforce Planning

• Tiered Leadership Management: Direct an expansive Mission Assurance organization managed through a cadre of Senior Directors and Directors across multiple geographic regions.
• Executive Talent Development: Exercise full hiring promotion and reward authority focusing on building a pipeline of future leaders in Mission Assurance.

Required Qualifications

• Tier-1 Executive Experience: 15 years of experience in the Aerospace & Defense industry with a proven track record of managing a complex global function within a $10B$20B environment.
• Proven Strategic Impact: Demonstrated success in leading strategy and operations with enterprise-level impact on multi-billion dollar programs.
• Influencing at the Highest Levels: Proven ability to influence Executive leadership and lead through extreme ambiguity and high-stakes conflict.

Preferred Qualifications

• Large-Scale Modernization: Experience modernizing legacy quality/assurance operating models within a Tier-1 Defense Prime.
• Complex Program Support: Direct experience supporting Program of Record deliveries for major DOD or Intelligence Community customers.
• Security Clearance: Active Top Secret (TS/SCI) is preferred but not required.

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