Program Manager IV
Frontgrade Technologies
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Frontgrade Technologies is seeking a Program Manager IV – Proposal Execution to lead proposal content from assessment to submission, coordinating inputs across BD, Engineering, Operations, and Manufacturing to deliver executable program plans and customer value.
You will validate readiness, manage risks, and align strategies with Frontgrade growth objectives while supporting bid/no-bid decisions in a highly regulated environment.
Qualifications
- Minimum eight (8) years of experience in a specialized functional discipline.
- Experience leading cross-functional planning activities that translate customer requirements into executable schedules, resource plans, program strategies, and business solutions.
- Experience evaluating technical, operational, schedule, and execution risk; proposal management experience in aerospace, defense, manufacturing, or another highly regulated industry strongly preferred.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the Proposal Content Lead from opportunity assessment through proposal submission, ensuring all required functional inputs are identified, coordinated, completed, and integrated.
- Lead the development and validation of executable program plans, resource-loaded schedules, and planning assumptions for production, development, and NPI opportunities.
- Validate organizational readiness by coordinating functional assessment of resource availability, manufacturing capacity, material lead times, operational constraints, and execution feasibility.
- Partner with Business Development, Engineering, Operations, and other functional leaders to ensure proposal strategies align customer missions, priorities, and desired outcomes with Frontgrade growth objectives.
- Facilitate cross-functional evaluation of proposed solutions to ensure they strengthen customer relationships, maximize customer value, and remain executable within organizational capabilities.
- Support bid/no-bid decisions by ensuring customer value, technical performance, cost, schedule, execution risk, and organizational capability are fully considered.
Skills
Education
Job description
The Program Manager IV – Proposal Execution serves as the Proposal Content Lead for all Exeter program proposals. This role ensures alignment between Bid & Proposal activities and program execution by developing executable program plans that deliver customer value and reflect organizational capabilities. The Program Manager IV partners across Business Development, Program Management, Engineering, Operations, Finance, Supply Chain, and Manufacturing to validate customer requirements, schedules, resources, costs, and risks before commitments are made.
- Serve as the Proposal Content Lead from opportunity assessment through proposal submission, ensuring all required functional inputs are identified, coordinated, completed, and integrated.
- Lead the development and validation of executable program plans, resource-loaded schedules, and planning assumptions for production, development, and NPI opportunities.
- Validate organizational readiness by coordinating functional assessment of resource availability, manufacturing capacity, material lead times, operational constraints, and execution feasibility.
- Partner with Business Development, Engineering, Operations, and other functional leaders to ensure proposal strategies align customer missions, priorities, and desired outcomes with Frontgrade growth objectives.
- Facilitate cross-functional evaluation of proposed solutions to ensure they strengthen customer relationships, maximize customer value, and remain executable within organizational capabilities.
- Support bid/no-bid decisions by ensuring customer value, technical performance, cost, schedule, execution risk, and organizational capability are fully considered.
- Partner with Business Development, Engineering, Operations, and other functional leaders to ensure proposal strategies align customer missions, priorities, and desired outcomes with Frontgrade growth objectives.
- Facilitate cross-functional evaluation of proposed solutions to ensure they strengthen customer relationships, maximize customer value, and remain executable within organizational capabilities.
- Support bid/no-bid decisions by ensuring customer value, technical performance, cost, schedule, execution risk, and organizational capability are fully considered.
- Ensure customer requirements, statements of work, specifications, and contractual obligations are reviewed, understood, addressed, and traceable to proposal plans.
- Coordinate the development and review of proposal planning inputs, including Basis of Estimates, work breakdown structures, execution assumptions, schedules, and resource plans.
- Facilitate identification, assessment, communication, and mitigation of technical, schedule, operational, supply chain, and resource risks while maintaining proposal competitiveness.
- Coordinate proposal activities across Engineering, Operations, Manufacturing, Quality, Supply Chain, Finance, and Business Development to ensure functional inputs are complete and aligned.
- Lead proposal planning reviews, present integrated execution assessments, and drive closure of action items through proposal approval gates.
- Analyze proposal and program performance with functional stakeholders to improve planning accuracy, execution success, and schedule predictability.
- Capture and implement lessons learned from proposal development and program execution activities.
- Improve proposal planning processes, scheduling methodologies, and execution readiness standards.
- Minimum eight (8) years of experience in a specialized functional discipline. OR (12) years of experience may be considered in lieu of a Bachelors Degree. OR (6) years of experience may be considered with a Masters Degree. OR (3) years of experience may be considered with a PhD.
- Demonstrated experience leading cross-functional planning activities that translate customer requirements into executable schedules, resource plans, program strategies, and business solutions.
- Experience evaluating technical, operational, schedule, and execution risk; proposal management experience in aerospace, defense, manufacturing, or another highly regulated industry strongly preferred.
At Frontgrade, we build mission-critical electronics that perform without compromise in the world’s most demanding environments, from deep space to national defense. With decades of proven heritage, we deliver high-reliability components, subsystems, and integrated solutions trusted when failure is not an option. But our strength is not just in what we build. It is in the people who make it possible. From engineers and product managers to sales teams, marketers, and skilled manufacturing professionals, every role plays a direct part in enabling missions that protect, explore, and connect our world. We move with purpose, collaborate across disciplines, and take pride in delivering solutions our customers rely on in the highest-stakes environments. If you want your work, whatever your specialty, to contribute to something bigger, you will find your place at Frontgrade.
We believe mission success starts with taking care of our people. That’s why we offer competitive health, wealth, and wellbeing benefits from day one. You’ll also find real opportunities to learn, grow, and advance, whether you’re building technical expertise, leading teams, or expanding into new areas. Here, your growth is part of the mission.
This position may require access to technology, materials, software or hardware that is controlled by either ITAR or EAR U.S. export laws. As a condition of any job offer, in order to be employed in this position, you may need to obtain a U.S. Government export license(s), as required by law.
- Immediate Medical (FSA and HSA), Dental, and Vision
- 401K Match with 100% immediate vesting
- 9X80 compressed work schedule for qualifying roles
- Career Opportunity and Growth
- Tuition Reimbursement/Student Loan Repayment
- Generous PTO and 11 paid Holidays per year (9 designated holidays and 2 floating holidays)
- 8 weeks of 100% Paid Family Leave
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