Senior Manager

Job Title: Senior Manager, Program Management - Special Communications Business Area

Job Code: 27249

Job Location: Herndon, VA

Job Description:

The Tactical Mission Division is seeking an innovative and dynamic Senior Manager to lead the Special Communications Business Area. This pivotal role requires a forward-thinking leader with a growth mindset to align the business with near-peer missions and focus on cutting-edge technologies such as AI. Our business is heavily software-driven, encompassing various program types including development and O&M with a significant emphasis on FFP and a robust product line. This role is intelligence-focused and demands a strong background in that mission space. The Senior Manager will steer strategic direction, manage P&L, and drive the maturation of business operations to support ongoing growth. The ideal candidate will be instrumental in fostering a culture of high performance and innovation, conducting talent assessments, making critical decisions about cross-functional alignment, and driving transformation in a functionally complex environment. Additionally, the Senior Manager will align the business with an accelerated model to meet customer acquisition methods, capable of taking entire programs from start to finish within short timelines, often less than one year, and leading them into production while balancing large quantities of contracts and competing priorities.

Essential Functions:

Strategic Leadership:
• Support the Division GM with operational strategies to meet AOP commitments and growth objectives
• Develop and iteratively refine a cohesive, long-term division strategy that addresses market/customer needs, technology development, differentiated solutions, customer relationships, and organizational alignment
• Drive program execution to achieve key business and financial objectives, including orders, revenue recognition, operating income, and free cash flow for new and existing programs by quarter and year
• Establish and execute innovative strategies for new processes, systems, solutions, and products, ensuring swift program completion and delivery
Operational Excellence:
• Monitor and assess program performance against plans (schedule and financial), identify risks through a risk register, manage risk mitigation plans, and conduct reviews and approvals of major bids and proposals through opportunity, risk, and financial analysis
• Develop and implement Program Management Office (PMO) policies, procedures, and methodologies to ensure consistency and efficiency
• Ensure compliance with established policies
• Align the business with an accelerated model to meet customer acquisition methods, capable of taking entire programs from start to finish within short timelines, often less than one year, and leading them into production while balancing large quantities of contracts and competing priorities
Customer and Market Engagement:
• Establish, grow, and maintain strong customer relationships
• Participate in the marketing and sales process, actively promote the organization’s capabilities and strengths, and ensure that customer perspectives drive business decisions
Cross-Functional Collaboration:
• Coordinate with members of the Division senior leadership team (SLT) to evolve, expand, and augment the Special Communications product lines
• Coordinate cross-sector and cross-segment on larger, enterprise-wide development efforts
Leadership:
• Responsible for mentoring, coaching, and developing staff to accomplish departmental business results
• Foster a culture of high performance and innovation
• Conduct talent assessments and make strategic decisions about cross-functional alignment of talent
• Drive transformation in a functionally complex environment

Qualifications:

• Must Have an Active Top Secret Clearance with TS/SCI eligibility
• Bachelor’s Degree with a minimum of 12 years of prior related experience; Or, Graduate Degree with a minimum of 10 years of prior related experience; Or, in lieu of a degree, a minimum of 16 years of prior related experience

Preferred Additional Skills:

• Broad management and leadership knowledge to lead cross-department project teams or manage across the function
• Demonstrate strong business acumen and P&L experience
• Experience executing programs within the intelligence community
• Ability to handle complex problems and take initiative to research issues, engage in self-learning, problem-solve, and implement solutions
• Experience managing direct reports and cross-functional teams successfully
• Prior experience with Defense & Cyber companies is highly preferred
• Advanced business knowledge, general management, and leadership capability to lead business area or functional teams
• Experience with commercial business models
• Broad experience across multiple related professional disciplines within the organization
• Ability to combine theory, past practical experience, and the organization’s business practices
• Prior program management and proposal management experience
• Demonstrated ability to present to executives/management on important topics
• Demonstrated ability to work independently, identify problems, and propose solutions
• Demonstrated ability to work cross-functionally, across geographically dispersed teams
• Technical experience in networking, emergent technology, and/or communications
• Strong software development and management experience
• Ability to establish rapport, communicate effectively, and collaborate with users, data providers, and management at all levels within an organization
• Active Top Secret Clearance/SCI clearance

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