Sr. Program Manager for Growth, Modernization & Sustainment

V2X is growing! V2X is looking for a Senior Program Manager to join our team!
Modernization & Sustainment seeks a Program Manager (PM) supporting the Modernization and Sustainment business in Indianapolis. The PM leads a dynamic and multidiscipline team(s) across the Modernization and Sustainment this role the individual will enhance the business driving teams through strategy planning customer engagement and capture processes to win competitive business. Role will focus on shaping customer requirements building winning teams driving the total lifecycle of new business capture.

This leader establishes the vision and strategic approach to develop opportunities and lead capture teams to grow the Modernization and Sustainment business. The successful candidate will provide lead and execute captures ensuring execution within customer timelines within negotiated budgets and mentor/lead other program managers to capture their own opportunities. The PM will be accountable for achieving all internal financial goals for growth and cost targets supporting process improvement initiatives and ensuring compliance to all applicable policies and procedures. The PM will be responsible to the customer to deliver compliant and executable solutions or services. The PM will work closely with customers across all service areas (USA USAF USMC USN) to ensure programmatic concerns are addressed in a timely manner and foster a strong working relationship.

As required the PM will lead/perform the following tasks:

• Accountable to the business to achieve financial business goals for growth cost and schedule
• Provide mentoring and guidance to other program managers in executing capture activities
• Act as the face of the company to senior customers for program creating an open dialog with the customer and using this rapport is able to create new growth opportunities.
• Maintain relationship of trust and respect with internal stakeholders customers chief engineers and other internal functional leaders.
• Work with all functions (contracts finance engineering supply chain manufacturing mission assurance pricing) to successfully plan and execute opportunity capture.
• Lead technical collaboration with internal and external customers looking for new opportunities.
• Participate in internal and external Program Management Reviews (PMRs) and participate in TIMs with the customer and subcontractors as required.
• Prepare status or briefings for management via collaboration with others to organize briefings and meetings for internal and external representatives.
• Manage Risks and Opportunities.
• Elevate issues and risks to appropriate levels within Program Office.
• Effectively delegate tasking to the other PMO leaders/functional team while driving accountability
• Coordinate customer communications with contracts PMO and chief engineer.

Required Qualifications/Skills:

• Ten (10) or more years of relevant work experience.
• Seven (7) or more years successfully developing opportunities and leading capture of new business.
• Five (5) or more years of successful leadership experience successfully leading a cross functional team of diverse individuals through development to transition to production.
• Bachelors degree or Eight (8) years of additional work experience in lieu of degree.
• Experience leading development teams and system requirements management.
• Entrepreneurially minded individual with demonstrated experience growing and executing a successful business program and/or leadership of teams.
• Demonstrated innovative out of the box thinking to support business objectives.
• Sound ethical values built upon trust respect and doing the right thing.
• Experience utilizing program management practices including scheduling earned value management systems (EVMS) financial systems and program control risk and opportunity (R&O) management.
• Effective oral written listening and computer skills to develop and present narratives and briefings using Microsoft Office.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Demonstrated ability to effectively work with and communicate with multiple levels of management and individual contributors on teams.
• Experience with Microsoft Office suite of tools.
• Must be a US Citizen with ability to obtain a DoD Secret level clearance.

Desired Qualifications/Skills:

• Ten (10) or more years of successful Department of Defense (DoD) program management or Integrated Product Team (IPT) experience.
• Capture Management Certification
• Mechanical and/or electrical type product-based development leadership experience including interfaces to engineering manufacturing and suppliers of products.
• Experience and understanding of the DoD 5000 lifecycle model DoD uniform/civilian acquisition experience and DoD development processes.
• Experience on DoD Internal Research and Development (IRAD Customer Research and Development (CRAD) Technical Demonstration (TD) System Development and Demonstration (SDD) or Engineering Manufacturing & Development (EMD) Programs.
• Experience with weapon systems or special mission military platforms architectures capabilities customers and/or missions.
• Familiarity with Counter Air Systems including Radar/EO-IR/RF detection target tracking sensor fusion RF effects kinetic/non-kinetic defeat and networked kill-chain workflows.
• Experience with domestic & international allied customers.
• Science Technology Engineering or Math (STEM) degree and/or experience.
• Masters Degree or other graduate degree.

V2X is committed to building a diverse and inclusive environment in which we recognize and value each others differences as well as fostering a culture that promotes its core values: Professionalism Integrity and Respect. As an equal opportunity employer all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity genetic information national origin age disability or status as a protected veteran.

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