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Program Manager
Company | Leidos |
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Location | Arlington, VA, USA |
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Salary | $72150 – $130425 |
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Type | Full-Time |
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Degrees | Bachelor’s, Master’s |
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Experience Level | Mid Level, Senior |
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Requirements
- Must have an active Secret clearance with the ability to obtain a TS/SCI
- Experience overseeing technical teams and managing R&D programs
- Excellent verbal and written communication, management, and organizational skills
- Demonstrated ability to take initiative and work independently under stringent timelines
- Experience with captures, including business development, customer relations, and proposal management/writing
- Experience with agile scheduling
- Experience with financial systems and managing program budgets
- Proven ability to build and maintain lasting customer relationships, external stakeholder networks, and teaming partnerships
- Proficiency using Microsoft Office Suite, including Microsoft Project, Excel, PowerPoint, and Word
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field and 4+ years of prior relevant experience
Responsibilities
- Plan, coordinate, and manage small, medium, and large-scale programs
- Integrate all functions and activities necessary to ensure the program meets customer expectations and contract requirements
- Actively monitor, track, and manage program tasks, performance, subcontractors, risks, costs, and schedule
- Conduct quality review and submission of all deliverables
- Provide strong, proactive, and assertive leadership while engaging multi-discipline teams and responding to business needs
- Make decisions at the program team-level and properly escalate issues that cannot be resolved timely
- Create program management plans, set expectations, and ensure plans are driven by organizational procedures
- Ensure requirements are gathered, documented, reviewed, and approved per organizational/program standards
- Ensure programs are executed on-time, within budget, and remain within scope
- Create a work breakdown structures defining all activities and develop schedules to monitor and track dependencies, milestones, and deliverables
- Establish and maintain financial plans, track and report monthly actuals vs. planned expenditures, and implement corrective actions as necessary to address variances
Preferred Qualifications
- Master’s degree in a relevant field and 2+ years of prior relevant experience
- Project Management Professional (PMP)
- Active Top Secret/SCI clearance