Sr Manager, Civil Programs

Airbus Helicopters, in Columbus, MS is seeking a Senior Manager, Civil Programs to oversee the end-to-end acquisition, completion, maintenance, and delivery of specialized aircraft across North American and global commercial markets.

In this high-impact, high-visibility role, you will lead a 6 to 8-person team of program managers and direct cross-functional teams of up to 50 contributors across Engineering, Flight Test, Quality, and Procurement. Operating with high autonomy, you will manage complex project budgets, drive Earned Value Management metrics ($SPI$/$CPI$), and serve as the primary customer champion for elite mission profiles including Air Medical, Law Enforcement, Utility, and Corporate/PBA.

On the eastern border of Mississippi you'll find Columbus, home to our Helicopter manufacturing and assembly lines and Center of Excellence for the entire North America region. It's here that we produce the UH-72A Lakota Helicopters for the U.S. Army in addition to the H-125 aircraft for civil and commercial customers.

• Financial Rewards: Competitive base salary, incentive compensation which may include profit sharing schemes, retirement savings plan and the ability to participate in an Employee Stock Ownership Plan ("ESOP")
• Work/Life Balance: Paid time off including personal time, holidays and a generous paid parental leave program.
• Health & Welfare: Comprehensive insurance coverage including medical (traditional and high-deductible health plans), prescription, dental, vision, life, disability, Employee Assistance Plan ("EAP") and other supplemental benefit coverages.

Project Management - 70%

• Stakeholder Management:
  Sr. Manager, Civil Programs will work with various stakeholders to bring projects to completion on schedule, on budget and on quality. In doing so, you will ensure that all project team members:
  • Understand the scope of their commitment
  • Feel committed to their budget and schedule inputs
• Customer Management:
  • Guide customer through the aircraft acquisition and completion process
  • Focus on customer experience and manage to contract.
• Schedule Management:
  • Develop project schedules in MS Project or Smartsheet - complete with predecessors, successors, planned and actual start- and finish dates, critical path analysis
  • Track Schedule Performance Indicator (SPI)
• Budget Management:
  • Develop project budgets with inputs from functional departments
  • Track Cost Performance Indicator (CPI)
• Contract Management:
  • Early involvement in the offer/proposal/sales phase
  • Support sales and offers teams with technical advice, e.g. configuration, compatibility etc.
  • Full ownership of contract from early in the process all the way through completion

• Configuration Management and Aircraft Acquisition
• Based on market and customer demand work with the Sales & Marketing team to establish standard configurations as well as customer-specific configurations, and negotiate delivery of these airframes from the European production sites to meet delivery timelines
• Drive efficiencies through a balanced mix of production-line and post-production installations

• Make a concerted effort to improve the delivery experience for all customers, with specific focus on PBA customers
• This may include the following:
  • In coordination with the Facilities, Sales/Marketing and Finance teams, support evolution of the delivery center with feasibility studies, business cases, project execution etc.

• Develop, monitor and measure individual and team performance metrics to ensure maximum efficiencies are achieved and individual performance is measured fairly and the same across functions.
• Provide leadership, expertise and…