Lead Program Manager with Security Clearance

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 and a 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