User Experience Designer (Remote)
Cengage Group
Program Manager II
Draper
full-time
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Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States • Massachusetts
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💰 $100,000 - $250,000 per year
Job Level
Mid-LevelSenior
About the role
- Responsible for facilitating and leading program capture, development, planning and execution across the Air Force Strategic Systems portfolio
- Develop and manage new programs and establish programmatic relationships with Air Force Strategic and National Lab customers
- Ideate and develop coherent and cohesive solutions through critical thinking while managing timely completion of defined multi-discipline programs
- Accountable for managing program budget, schedules, and program growth
- May be responsible for business development within current customer base and/or new customers
- Coordinate successful execution of programs with internal stakeholders and interface with customers
- Ensure contractual deliverables are completed on schedule and within approved budget
- Support senior leadership in development of internal products and R&D recommendations
- Develop program management best practices and train/mentor project teams
- Monitor dependencies across multiple technical projects and report consolidated status and financials to leadership
- Recommend changes to improve processes and reduce inaccuracies/duplication
Requirements
- Proficiency in earned value, risk, and change management
- Develop personal credibility with sponsor organizations and program staff
- Ability to organize, motivate, and lead teams in business capture and execution activities
- Manage complex programs, potentially fixed price contracts with high dollar volume or length
- Oversee program budget and schedules
- Responsible for program growth and marketing new technology or business acquisition
- Interface with customers and coordinate internal stakeholders for program execution
- Ensure contractual deliverables completed on schedule and within approved budget
- Support Program Directors and Business Area Leads in R&D internal products
- Develop technical program management best practices and provide training/mentoring
- Monitor dependencies across inter-related technical projects
- Gather and report technical project status and financial information to leadership
- Recommend process improvements
- Ability to quickly learn new technologies/applications
- Knowledge and proven track record of successful business interaction
- Persuasive and strong relationship builder
- Excellent communications, presentation and networking skills
- Ability to travel as needed
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook)
- Deep expertise in leading program execution of full lifecycle projects
- Experience growing business in R&D technology development or integrating new technology into fielded systems
- Excellent written and verbal communications, presentations skills, organizational and time management skills
- Applicants selected will be required to obtain and maintain a government security clearance (Secret required, ability to obtain Top Secret)
