Program Manager

Are you looking to advance your career and showcase your leadership and program management skills in a dynamic environment? Join as a Program Manager II. In this role, you will support our Security business objectives with a focus on cybersecurity internal investment initiatives. Responsibilities include managing multiple complex projects, ensuring total Program Integration Management, building relationships, creating comprehensive plans (cost, schedule, technical), tracking and reporting progress, maintaining status, and communicating regularly with team members and executives. You will also execute technical tasks and achieve overall program performance objectives.

Key Responsibilities:

• End-to-End Business Acquisition: Own the lifecycle from the first program engagement through proposal development, basis of estimate (BOE) generation, negotiation, and contract award. Develop handoff transition from project to sustainment operations.
• Program Integration Management: Manage programs with varying development scope, higher than medium complexity, and requiring significant internal/external Stakeholder interaction. Ensure cost and schedule risks are managed effectively.
• Team Formation: Supervise the work of project staff and use influence to formulate a cross-functional program team that can fulfill program requirements, provide mentorship to team members that don’t report directly to the Program Manager.
• Stakeholder Relationship Management: Maintain and build strong relationships with cross functional Stakeholders, ensuring their needs and expectations are met.
• Risk Management: Identify, mitigate, track, and manage program risks to ensure successful program execution.
• Routine Meetings and Engagement: Conduct routine meetings, interface on project/program status, develop proposals, research/fact-find, coordinate working sessions, and negotiate with stakeholders to ensure enterprise initiatives meet cost, budget, and schedule constraints.
• Support Security Operations: Aid the Security Directors in fulfilling their responsibilities for the enterprise.

Required Experience:

• Experience in team building, time management, conflict resolution, communication, briefing, presentation, strategic thinking, marketing, and literacy in the program management disciplines.
• Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Technology/Systems, Project Management, Management, Engineering or related field
• Typically 8 years of progressive experience in project or program management
• Typically 3 years leading medium scale project scope spanning 1-2 years, while leading teams made up of 5 cross functional team members
• Proficient leadership abilities inclusive of successful change management, mentoring, career development, training, succession planning, and holding non-direct reports accountable to program objectives
• Demonstrated ability to manage the entire lifecycle of complex programs, from initial engagement through to contract award and sustainment.
• Experience in supervising and forming cross-functional teams.
• Strong Stakeholder relationship management skills.
• Proficiency in risk management and mitigation strategies.
• Excellent communication and negotiation skills.
• Requires ability to manage complex situations, delegate authority, lead and inspire your team, drive innovative thinking, instill collaboration, drive for success, challenge status quo, and demonstrate the ability to adapt to dynamic situations
• Demonstrated financial acumen to ensure decisions are fiscally sound and responsible.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Ability to reinforce the usage & application of Corporate PM tools.
• Ability to participate in PM process & tool improvement initiatives for the Enterprise.
• Ability to keep program management informed of function & process changes within project controls.
• Ability to enhance program management expertise in the staff
• Ability to establish new & further refining existing templates, tools, & guidelines for program documentation & execution
• Experience managing program scope that implemented application tools and data architecture
• Program Management Professional (PMP) Certification
• Advanced degree in Business, Management, Engineering or related field
• Understanding of Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) and Defense Federal Acquisition Regulations (DFARS)
• Managing projects using Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI), agile and or spiral development models
• Experience with ensuring compliance with approved Corporate and ISO 9001:2000 Policies and Processes

• Benefits of the Program Manager:
• Health, Dental, Vision Insurance
• Matching 401K
• Preference to be onsite in Sparks, NV but will consider remote candidates
• Paying up to $59/hr

Position location options: Sparks NV, Beaver Creek OH, or Greenville TX