Principal, Program Management Excellence- Imaging Systems

Principal, Program Management Excellence
- Imaging Systems

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Job Title: Principal, Program Management Excellence
- Imaging Systems

Job Code: 32258

Job Location: Northampton, MA.

Schedule: 9/80 Every other Friday off

Job Description: The Program Management Excellence (PMX) team within the Maritime Sector is looking to fill a PMX Lead role for the Imaging System (IS) Division. The successful candidate should be an experienced Program Manager or Proposal Manager who is well‑versed in People, Process, and Tools best practices within the Aerospace & Defense industry. The successful candidate will serve as the single point of program management execution for the IS Division VP and their staff.

The candidate will work effectively with the other members of the Maritime PMX staff, functional partners, and the sector program teams.

Essential Functions:

• Drive predictable program execution across Division Programs
• Own Program Performance Analysis / Reporting for the Division
• Partner with programs to ensure executable baseline plans (cost and schedule)
• Drive R&O best practices into execution across all programs for the Division

• Manage Division PM training
  • Program Leadership Team (PLT) Certification program
  • Program Management (RPM) rotational program
  • Coordination of training requirements and instruction for program teams
  • Training metrics
• Organize Gate and Independent Reviews for the Division
• Own implementation of tools across the Division
  • Common Work Breakdown Structure (CWBS)
  • Common Data Matrix (CDM)
  • Cobra Standardization
  • Opportunity & Risk Register
  • Schedule Metrics Analysis & Reporting Tool (SMART)
  • Program Health Dashboard (PHD) & Automated Program Review Template (PRT)
• Support various sector and division reviews
• Ensure appropriate PMO staffing for program proposals, baseline activities, and execution
• Enforce Program Management policy and process requirements
• Continuous improvement projects
• Coordinate support of internal and customer audits
• Coordinate and adjudicate PMX support priorities
• Ability to Travel – 25%
• Ability to obtain a Department of Defense (DoD) Secret Security Clearance

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree with a minimum of 12 years of experience
• or post‑graduate degree and 10 years of experience
• or in lieu of a degree, minimum of 16 years of prior related experience.
• 10+ years of prior program management, proposal management, program planning, and EVMS experience
• Experience working DoD projects in a Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) and Defense Federal Acquisition Regulations (DFAR) environment

Preferred Additional

Skills:

• 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‑disbursed teams
• Active Department of Defense (DoD) Secret Security Clearance
• Prior experience managing Profit & Loss (P&L)
• Prior experience managing direct reports
• Prior experience providing instructional training to program team(s)
• Knowledge of Business Intelligence (BI) tools such as Tableau, Power
  
  BI, etc.
• Knowledge of the Business Acquisition Process (BAP)
• Ability to Travel – up to 50%

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