SES Space & Defense

Manager

• Serve as the primary interface with the customer on all matters involving contract execution
• Provide leadership to the program team
• Actively seek new business opportunities in coordination with Business Development
• Formally identify, assess, monitor, and mitigate risk throughout the program life cycle
• Prepare for and participate in contract/subcontract negotiations

Senior Manager, PMO

Human Resources

• Responsible for the full-life cycle recruiting to include posting positions, applicant flow, creative sourcing, pre-screening candidates, interviewing and selection and candidate management.
• Develop innovative recruiting strategies to attract top talent for the Company.
• Lead recruitment and selection processes that are legally compliant and cost effective while meeting established metrics.
• Maintain accurate records and reports on all phases of the recruitment process.
• Develop and build relationships with hiring managers in order to better understand their business and the roles with the organization.
• Work directly with hiring managers to ensure understanding of job specifications and desired qualifications for each position.
• Advise hiring managers throughout the hiring process on matters such as interviewing techniques, selection protocols, offer management, etc.
• Partner with HR team to ensure organization’s talent goals are met including internal, external, diversity and early career hiring.
• Develop and execute innovative recruiting strategies to attract top talent for the Company.
• Maintain accurate records in the Applicant Tracking System and may produce reports on all phases of the recruitment process.
• Participate in job fairs and college recruiting to source potential candidates and promote industry awareness.
• Manage candidate experience so that candidates have a positive impression of the recruitment process including providing status updates, scheduling interviews, making travel arrangements, etc.
• Conduct reference and background checks and may initiate job offers.
• May schedule and/or conduct new employee onboarding processes.

Senior Specialist, Human Resources

• Responsible for the cradle to grave management of all assigned US Government contract requirements and financial deliverables.
• Provides experienced and knowledgeable administration support of government and defense contractor resellers contracts.
• Maintains, and as needed, can recommend systems, policies, and procedures compliant with the contract requirements.
• Prepares, submits and maintains all necessary contract approval requests, invoices and ensures all other deliverables and reports are submitted in a timely fashion.
• Generates and negotiates supporting contractual documents, such as non-disclosure agreements and teaming agreements.
• Acts as liaison with customers for proposal or contract matters, communicating status of open contract matters frequently.

Manager, Contracts – Grade P12

Security Engineer

• Prevent, Detect and Respond to Cyber events to ensure the organization can continue to operate in a contested environment.
• Secure, monitor, and respond to threats using a variety of tools including: DefenderXDR, Splunk, Palo Alto, Zscaler, Fortinet, Crowdstrike, and IRIS.
• Analyze anomalous activity to determine methods and impact on systems.
• Serve as Subject Matter Expert (SME) on penetration testing for corporate cyber and programs cyber.
• Participate in organizational cyber security assessments, and continuous monitoring.
• Lead Incident Response and digital forensics efforts.
• Preparing internal cyber security reports in a timely manner.
• Collaborate and support cross-functional engineering team.
• Understand and support Zero Trust Architecture and implementation.
• Support the hardening of critical infrastructure, site visit and validations (NOCs/SACs).

Cyber Security Engineer

• Manage and direct the daily execution of contract requirements to ensure cost, schedule, and performance goals are met on assigned portfolio of contracts to US Government or indirect customers servicing Government end-users
• The scope of contracts may include concurrent multi-satellite capacity-only and/or regional managed end-to-end services and networks leveraging GEO, MEO, and/or LEO constellations
• Develop and implement plans and schedules that provide the roadmap to meeting customer contract requirements on-time and within-budget
• Allocate and control budgets for labor, material, travel and purchased services
• Formally identify, assess, monitor, and mitigate risk throughout the program life cycle.
• Obtain management approval prior to making decisions that will cause deterioration of established program, cost, and schedule objectives.
• Perform variance analysis of schedule and cost on a formal and informal basis and present them to senior management (i.e. earned value management system)
• Develop and implement corrective action plans when deviations from budgets and/or schedules are evident.
• Seek senior management assistance to resolve problems as they arise
• Assure a timely closeout of completed programs to ensure that all obligations are satisfied, and program documentation is properly recorded
• Promote project management standards and best practices across programs to include communications, quality, and risk assessment strategies
• While representing Company’s interests, assure that conduct of contract requirements is executed in accordance with appropriate regulations and corporate policies and procedures (i.e. federal acquisition regulations)
• Prepare for and participate in contract/subcontract negotiations.
• Interface with key vendors in coordination with company procurement/subcontracts to ensure requirements are delivered on-time and within budget
• Manage program profit & loss (P&L)
• Understand and apply program planning (i.e.: develop a Bill of Materials and Basis of Estimate)
• Understand cash flow management principles
• Lead meetings and the integrated product team from kick-off through project close
• Work closely with assigned government agencies, vendors, and internal staff to oversee and coordinate all functions related to client programs
• Assure communication and cooperation among team members to resolve areas of conflict
• Support, communicate, reinforce, and defend corporate and PMO vision, mission, and values
• Provide interface, communications, and coordination with internal and external customers on matters pertaining to existing contracts and bid and proposal activities
• Coordinate with Contracts on issues pertaining to contract requirements, changes, and interpretations.
• Coordinate with other departments to resolve contractual problems with the customer
• Thru exceptional customer relations, promote business development and identify growth and new sales opportunities within customer programs.
• Posture SES Space & Defense to win every recompete
• Participate as a team member on bid and proposal activities.
• Ensure that the requirements of the request for proposal are met in the preparation and documentation of bids and proposals
• Interface with company senior management pertaining to assigned programs to report program (technical and financial) performance.
• Report program status to senior management monthly
• Represent management at program reviews, meetings, seminars, etc.
• Understand and apply process improvement principles (i.e.: ITIL, Lean Six Sigma); develop/improve program management processes and procedures within customer programs
• Understand and develop leading versus lagging indicators
• Effectively manage inventory
• Support Internal Research and Development projects

Manager, PMO

Director

• Provide strategic and operational leadership for planning, execution, and delivery from initial design through launch and operational transition
• Own program performance, including scope, schedule, cost, risk, quality, and technical execution
• Lead the development, baseline, and management of the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) and Integrated Master Schedule (IMS)
• Ensure timely execution of all program phases, including Hot Start (if applicable), design, manufacture, test, integration, and deployment
• Manage program profit & loss (P&L), including budgets, forecasts, estimate-at-Completion (EAC)/Estimate-to-Completion (ETC), revenue recognition, cash flow, and margin performance
• Serve as the primary customer interface, maintaining strong relationships, managing expectations, negotiating program changes, and ensuring timely communication of risks and progress
• Manage major subcontractors including statement of work (SOW) definition, performance monitoring, milestone tracking, and risk mitigation
• Lead integrated product teams (IPTs) across engineering, operations, systems engineering, supply chain, contracts, finance, and product development
• Establish and maintain a program risk and opportunity management framework

Director, PMO – Grade M13

Business Development Rep

• Promote and foster continued business development opportunities with existing US government customers
• Expand and grow business base by developing new customer relationships & strategic partnerships
• Support the Company's short and long-term strategic plan to meet or exceed their Bookings forecast under the direction of senior leadership
• Overall responsibility for the accuracy and achievement of their Bookings Forecast and Plan
• Visit prospective, new, and existing customers on a regular basis to support new and existing products and programs
• Perform competitive market analysis and monitor competitive activity to identify evolving customer needs and develop business cases
• Assist in the development of the planning, designing, and implementing of business plans, such as, capture plans, proposal activities
• Work cross-functionally with other departments and/or functions within SES Space & Defense (e.g. Program Management, Engineering, Manufacturing, etc) to coordinate customer activities, market strategies, and solutions development
• Facilitate presentations on Company portfolio of products and services
• Attend business meetings and trade shows as requested