General Dynamics Mission Systems has an immediate opening for a Senior Program Manager. The position provides an opportunity to enhance the performance and profitability of an organization that supports some of our nation’s fundamental defense services. General Dynamics Mission Systems employees work closely with esteemed customers to develop solutions that allow them to carry out high-stakes national security missions.
As aspiring leaders, General Dynamics Mission Systems (GDMS) believes there are several enabling behaviors which will influence your success. These behaviors will also serve as leading indicators of likely success (or difficulty), and will be used by your manager in evaluating your performance and growth as a leader, and will serve to build trust from your teams, your customer, and the organization. These behaviors are:
- Develop yourself
- Develop others
- Be a team player
- Communicate effectively
- Develop and sustain the relationships you need to be successful
- Shape culture and positively impact the morale, motivation, and engagement of those around you
- Operate at the right level and deliver on your commitments
- Think and act strategically
- Confront reality
- Take reasonable, managed risks
It is expected the successful candidate will utilize these tenets so they can build on their own essential skills and traits.
REPRESENTATIVE DUTIES AND TASKS:
- Lead programmatic integration efforts for the Development portfolio, which is a critical and required function during this period of increasing complexity and program growth. Integration efforts for this role include: leading and maintaining Integrated Master Schedules, identifying and managing key dependencies between Development projects, adjudicating roles and responsibilities between projects as scope increases, and more.
- Establish and maintain portfolio metrics, which show trends and predictive analytics to ensure predictable performance.
- Working alongside Senior DPMEs, lead problem resolution for significant, Development-wide execution or strategy issues.
- Lead multi-functional teams to resolve historical performance challenges that have impacted execution, such as obsolescence management, critical skills application across portfolio, work forecasting and metrics reliability.
- Act as the lead for SWC Development in supporting and pursuing strategic initiatives for Development programs. Be a primary POC and partner with the GDMS Advanced Concepts team, to ensure that strategic priorities for SWC Development are actively pursued in an aligned manner.
- Uses proposal plans and strategies to lead team in developing, defining, and implementing cohesive, integrated program/product, subcontractor, and material plans and business plans that achieve overall current and long-term objectives of the program/product, business unit, and division
- Balances programs, risks and opportunities with executable strategies to meet technical requirements and budgets
- Manages people who lead department or cross-functional program teams in matrix organization that are focused on the delivery of a product or computer-based system from design to release for customers
- Prepares and presents program/product status to leadership and external customers
- Identifies market/scope changes and develops product/program positions for costs/price and feature changes or equitable cost/schedule adjustments
- Develops and executes proposal plans and strategies
- Develops customer relationships and develops new business within the market/program
- May be responsible for directing the planning, proposal preparation, negotiation, budgeting, performance measurement, and profit generation of other program managers
KNOWLEDGE SKILLS AND ABILITIES:
- Prior experience leading SWC Development Programs (as a Program Manager or Deputy Program Manager) is required
- Demonstrated domain knowledge of the Fire Control System
- Ability to generate cohesive program plans
- Must be able to establish and assure adherence to budgets, schedules, work plans, and performance requirements
- Ability to track work accomplished to baseline plans and identify issues, track progress, and follow through on effective corrective actions based on data analysis and trends
- Ability to understand and analyze program financial data
- Skilled in communicating issues, impacts, and corrective actions on programs to internal and external representatives
- Demonstrated verbal and written communication skills
- Demonstrated knowledge of business objectives proposal techniques, and business development for new business
- Ability to lead teams in matrix organization
- Ability to lead others in team building, conflict resolution, motivation,
- Ability to develop and execute proposal plans and strategies
- Demonstrated understanding of business and supply chain strategy
- Demonstrated knowledge of government contracting practices and regulations regarding acquisition
- Outstanding relationship management and marketing skills
- Ability to manage/mentor others within program management discipline
- Erroneous decisions or recommendations or failure to complete assignments normally result in serious delays and considerable expenditure of additional time, human resources, and funds
- Travel will be required (~25% of time)
