Location: Manchester,NH, USA
**Job Description**
BAE Systems Electronic Combat Solutions (ECS) business area has an exciting opportunity for a Program Director II to help lead a fast-paced, complex development portfolio. F-35 Block 4 is seeking an experienced leader to serve as the Mission Systems Product Area Deputy Director. Reporting to the Senior Director for the F-35 Mission Systems, this role will be based at our location in Manchester, NH.
Our employees work on the world s most advanced electronics, developing tomorrow s technology to defeat today s threats. We put our customers first exemplified by our mission: We Protect Those Who Protect Us. Sounds like a team you want to be part of? Come build your career with us.
Ideal candidates for the Mission Systems Deputy Director role will have the following key strengths:
1. Robust Execution A successful track-record of executing large, complex development programs,
2. Collaboration Experience influencing across internal and external boundaries to achieve goals.
3. Executive Presence Proven capacity to communicate with confidence, clarity, and humility.
Detailed responsibilities include:
+ Create a high performing work environment that delivers on commitments (schedule, cost and technical) while ensuring team compliance to ethics, security, and safety objectives and policies.
+ Provide proactive project management, including initiating and planning, executing, monitoring and controlling, and closing on critical activities.
+ Manage internal and external reporting of multiple large contracts.
+ Drive a risk management approach that actively mitigates risks and works to realize opportunities.
+ Interact frequently with senior-level executives, customers, suppliers, and associate contractors concerning projects, operational decisions, contracts, and strategies.
+ Cultivate customer relationships to achieve high levels of customer satisfaction and confidence.
+ Coordinate across the Mission Systems organization and with other affected ECS stakeholders.
+ Provide leadership for new business development, capture strategies, and proposals.
+ Attract, develop, and retain high-performing, diverse talent; build future leaders through development, mentoring, and modeling excellence; lead through inspiration and encouragement to enhance employee performance, engagement, and overall team optimization.
+ Foster a culture of innovation, problem solving, performance excellence, and continuous improvement that delivers affordable, effective, and dependable solutions.
+ Actively promote a culture of diversity, inclusion, safety, health, and personal well-being for the team
+ Please note that pursuant to a government contract, this specific position requires US citizenship status.
**Required Education, Experience, & Skills**
+ Typically a Bachelor s Degree in a technical or business-related discipline and a minimum of 12 years of experience leading technical and program teams through all phases of the lifecycle
+ Provide proactive cross functional leadership of a key strategic portfolio to achieve customer commitments and business growth expectations.
+ Demonstrate visible leadership across the portfolio leading by example and driving program performance excellence.
+ Time management and prioritization skills.
+ Excellent written and oral communication skills with experience presenting to senior leaders and customers.
+ Strong leadership, coaching and mentoring skills with the ability to achieve results through others.
+ Business acumen mindset, awareness within and outside the business.
+ Ability to hold yourself and others accountable.
**Preferred Education, Experience, & Skills**
+ Proven performance delivering on commitments in complex environments.
+ Successful record leading and managing large EMD programs with systems, hardware, software, and firmware development, including transition to production at rate.
+ Experience establishing and building customer and stakeholder relationships; collaborates within and across organizational boundaries, breaking down barriers and finding common ground.
+ Experience providing executive level briefings on project status and recommendations.
+ Solid understanding and experience with risk and opportunity management, defense contract types, and with collaborating with Finance to apply Earned Value Management techniques.
+ Experience integrating scope, schedule, budget for successful execution of program objectives.
+ Experience operating, allocating resources, and prioritizing effectively in limited timeframes.
+ Strong leadership, coaching and mentoring skills with the ability to achieve results through others in a dynamic environment.
+ DoD Secret clearance and ability to attain special access clearance.
**Pay Information**
Full-Time Salary Range: $164000 - $278800
Please note: This range is based on our market pay structures. However, individual salaries are determined by a variety of factors including, but not limited to: business considerations, local market conditions, and internal equity, as well as candidate qualifications, such as skills, education, and experience.
Employee Benefits: At BAE Systems, we support our employees in all aspects of their life, including their health and financial well-being. Regular employees scheduled to work 20 hours per week are offered: health, dental, and vision insurance; health savings accounts; a 401(k) savings plan; disability coverage; and life and accident insurance. We also have an employee assistance program, a legal plan, and other perks including discounts on things like home, auto, and pet insurance. Our leave programs include paid time off, paid holidays, as well as other types of leave, including paid parental, military, bereavement, and any applicable federal and state sick leave. Employees may participate in the company recognition program to receive monetary or non-monetary recognition awards. Other incentives may be available based on position level and/or job specifics.
**Program Director II - F-35 Block 4**
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