Program Manager at Leidos

Description

The National Security Sector at Leidos is seeking an experienced Program Manager to provide executive leadership and oversight of a large multibillion dollar program. This individual is responsible for planning, organizing, securing, and managing resources to bring about the successful completion of the program supporting customer goals and objectives - ensuring that all projects run within scope, time, and budget constraints. The Program Manager will also direct the activities of functional leaders, subcontractors, and support personnel and make decisions that drive the long-term success, failure, profitability and growth of this program.

The Program Manager shall be responsible for the successful cost, schedule, and performance of the contract and will have the P&L responsibility for the contract. They will serve as the main point of contact for the Contracting Officer (CO), the Contracting Officer’s Representative (COR), the Government Program Manager, and the Contractor’s senior management, and directly contribute to program efforts in several areas including cost management/avoidance, schedule estimation and tracking, contract performance management, risk management, requirements analysis, and quality assurance activities. They will ensure proper performance of tasks necessary to ensure the most efficient and effective execution of the contract. The Program Manager shall utilize expert communication skills needed to direct the skilled technical resources and report on the technical progress, issues, and problem areas, as well as write and review technical documents.

This position will be located at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland or in the DC area. A successful candidate will perform as the primary interface for the PEO C3T government technical leads, direct the day-to-day operations of the Program Management Team, monitor and evaluate subcontractor performance, and perform approvals for procurement of required facilities, equipment, supplies, and personnel requests.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Establish strategies for the program execution in collaboration with executive leadership team.
• Resolve complex problems and issues faced that require consideration of variables that are cross organizational.
• Communicate with senior executive leadership regarding matters of strategic importance to the organization.
• Develop mid- to long-term plans on how to optimize program support and the talent required to execute strategies for the customer mission.
• Allocate resources (staffing, facilities, and budgets) on the contract.
• Review and approve all Estimate To Complete (ETC), Funds, and Man-hour Expenditure Reports, or other financial reports as appropriate.
• Ensure cross-discipline integration within the contract to meet Government needs.
• Work with functional staff to provide effective and efficient management of the contractor's effort.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business, Accounting, Industrial Relations, or other field with at least 15 years of prior relevant experience or a Master’s Degree with 13+ years in managing Government projects and programs of similar scope and size for systems development, engineering, training, fielding, and/or logistics.
• Active DoD Secret Clearance.
• Typically has broader practical experience across multiple professional disciplines within the organization, combining theory, past practical experience and the organizations’ business practices.
• US Army, PEO C3T organization experience and intimacy.
• Demonstrated P&L responsibility of increasing magnitude in prior roles; 12 years of experience as a program manager in managing programs and contracts of greater than $300M of total IDIQ value with multiple task orders and large-scale commercial IT procurement
• Demonstrated experience conducting requirements analysis, resource allocation, project costing, deliverable tracking, schedule and financial monitoring, and reporting.
• 12+ years of experience providing management and oversight of a team with geographically dispersed personnel.
• 12+ years of demonstrated experience in the management and control of funds and resources using complex reporting mechanisms.
• Direct experience in managing multi-task contracts and subcontracts of various types and complexity, as well as experience in leading a multi-vendor environment.
• Ability to cross functionally communicate with government, subcontractor, and internal Leidos stakeholders via direct contact, e-mail, phone cons, briefings, and other written products.
• Ability to manage cost, schedule, and performance; document program performance in weekly, monthly, and quarterly program briefings to both the government and internal Leidos stakeholders; manage the development of yearly CPAR writeups for input to the government evaluation.
• Experience supporting a contract or TO responsible for adhering to DoD information security and personnel security practices.
• Experience implementing supply chain risk management.
• Experience assisting the customer with organizational change and transformation.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Former Military Officer.
• Prior US Army PEO C3T organization support experience.
• DoD experience with acquisition and modernization of major program of record C5ISR systems.
• Active Top Secret clearance.

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Original Posting Date:

While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

Pay Range:

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.