Req 72892 Senior Project Manager

MountainOne; Pittsfield, Northern (MA, KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

General Dynamics Mission Systems in the United States seeks a Senior Project Manager to lead execution of surface ship systems integration and test programs, coordinating across engineering, manufacturing, marketing, sales, and service to meet schedule, cost, and quality objectives.

The role emphasizes leadership, risk management, and clear communication with customers and suppliers, with occasional travel to support programs and field activities across Defense initiatives.

Qualifications

• Experience leading defense or government-related projects.
• Ability to develop and manage product/program strategies and roadmaps.
• Strong skills in risk management, forecasting, and cost control.
• Proven capability to work with cross-functional teams across engineering, manufacturing, and sales.
• Excellent communication and customer coordination skills.

Responsibilities

• Develops and implements product strategies and roadmaps for target products.
• Manages market analysis and coordinates with research, manufacturing, marketing, sales, and service to meet objectives.
• Interfaces with customers to capture requirements and translate into Market/Product Requirements Documents.
• Guides sales with product knowledge and marketing materials.
• Creates and maintains project configurations, data sheets, and baselines.
• Develops and executes proposal plans to achieve long-term program goals.
• Leads risk mitigation and opportunities across projects.
• Ensures alignment of resources with project goals and schedules.

Skills

Senior project management

Risk & opportunity management

Cross-functional leadership

Contract/Proposal knowledge

Customer coordination

Financial reporting

WBS & scheduling

Product / program strategy

Communication (written and verbal)

Tools

MS Project

Excel

PowerPoint

Word

Job description

General Dynamics Mission Systems has an immediate opening for a Senior Project Manager. The position provides an opportunity to enhance the performance and profitability of an organization that supports some of our nation’s fundamental defense services. General Dynamics Mission Systems employees work closely with esteemed customers to develop solutions that allow them to carry out high-stakes national security missions.

Duties will be focused on maintaining execution and growing the Surface Ship Systems Integration and Test portfolio within the Maritime and Strategic Systems Line of Business. Desired skills include: Navy vessel production experience, earned value management, technical requirements analysis, work load forecasting, managing risk and opportunities, financial reporting, contract geometry knowledge, proposal development, market research, and confidence with industry and Government customer coordination.
As aspiring leaders, General Dynamics Mission Systems (GDMS) believes there are several enabling behaviors which will influence your success. These behaviors will also serve as leading indicators of likely success (or difficulty), and will be used by your manager in evaluating your performance and growth as a leader, and will serve to build trust from your teams, your customer, and the organization. These behaviors are:

• Develop yourself
• Develop others
• Be a team player
• Communicate effectively
• Develop and sustain the relationships you need to be successful
• Shape culture and positively impact the morale, motivation, and engagement of those around you
• Operate at the right level and deliver on your commitments
• Think and act strategically
• Confront reality
• Take reasonable, managed risks

It is expected the successful candidate will utilize these tenets so they can build on their own essential skills and traits.

REPRESENTATIVE DUTIES AND TASKS:

• Develops & implements product strategies and roadmaps for a specific target product
• Analyzes markets and drives/maintains product acceptance in the market by integrating the work of research and development, manufacturing, marketing, sales, and service functions to solve market problems to meet corporate business objectives relating to revenue, margin, quality, and time-to-market to meet corporate business objectives relating to revenue, margin, quality, and time-to-market
• Interfaces with customer to gain and maintain market specific knowledge and understanding of product use in the field to formulate their requirements in a Market / Product Requirements Document
• Works with marketing team in activities related to the products including competitive analysis and pricing, product requirements, development of marketing materials, and analysis of market trends
• Provides guidance and assistance to sales in selling the product
• Responsible for product configurations and data sheets
• Uses proposal plans and strategies to develop, define, and implement cohesive, integrated program, subcontractor, and material plans that achieve overall current and long term objectives of the program, business unit, and division
• Develops WBS and WBS dictionary as baseline for scope definition and effective integrated cost/schedule management of the project
• Authorizes the work, organizes interdepartmental activities, and tracks work accomplished to baseline plans to ensure rate of work completion is sufficient to meet schedules
• Conducts reviews to drill down into issues on products/projects, identify risks, develop corrective actions, and communicate issues, impacts and corrective actions to project teams
• Works with the engineering and operations team to ensure appropriate alignment of resources to attain product/project goals
• Forecasts product/project completion as required based on performance trends
• Supports customers on technical questions regarding the project/product(s)
• Leads team to identify and quantify risks and opportunities; leads risk mitigation / opportunity capture activities
• Balances product/project plans, risks, and opportunities with executable strategies to meet technical requirements and budgets General Dynamics Proprietary Information
• Identifies scope changes and develops product/project positions for equitable cost and schedule adjustments
• Responsible for the profit and loss of products/projects
• Develops and executes proposal plans and strategies
• Develops customer relationships and develops new business within the market/project
• Develops negotiation plans
• Leads customer negotiations for products/projects

KNOWLEDGE SKILLS AND ABILITIES:

• Ability to negotiate win-win solutions
• Proficient knowledge of company products, competitive products and services
• Proficient knowledge of target customer markets
• Outstanding relationship management and marketing skills
• Ability to perform product demonstrations and training for sales
• Ability to develop marketing material for the product
• Technical understanding of product(s)
• Proficient knowledge of work estimating, allocation, scheduling, and authorization
• Ability to use proposal plans and strategies to implement executable, cohesive program plans
• Ability to develop and implement a product oriented WBS and WBS Dictionary
• Proficient understanding of basic philosophy of program schedules, risk areas, slack time, and critical path
• Proficient ability to generate cohesive project plans
• Proficient ability to track work accomplished to baseline plans to ensure rate of work completion is sufficient to meet schedules
• Proficient ability to identify issues, track progress, and follow through on effective corrective actions based on data analysis and trends
• Proficient ability to understand and analyze project financial data
• Ability to evaluate quality of work product to ensure satisfaction of customer requirements
• Proficient understanding of the fundamentals of risk and opportunity management and ability to apply them to projects
• Proficient ability to lead teams in matrix organization to achieve schedule, cost, and technical performance objectives
• Ability to communicate clearly, both written and verbal
• Ability to make sound, proactive decisions
• Ability to develop and execute proposal plans and strategies
• Proficient understanding of value propositions and ability to make effective trades within project trade spaces
• Skilled in the development and implementation of product/project strategy and tactics
• Proficient in MS Project, Excel, Word, PowerPoint
• May be required to travel