Senior Program Leader, Defense Radar Systems

Saab AB; New Woodstock (NY); On-site; USD 166,000 - 224,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, vision, and dental insurance

Generous paid time off including 8 USH

401(k) with employer contributions

Tuition assistance and student loanrep

Wellness and employee assistance

Employee stock purchase opportunities

Short-term and long-term disability

Job summary

Saab is seeking a Principal Program Manager to be responsible for the profitable execution of development programs within the Surveillance division, onsite at our East Syracuse, NY office.

The successful candidate will have demonstrated experience in the design, development and fielding of large scale radar systems for military or commercial use, and will manage multi-program portfolios with EVMS, budgets and schedules.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Engineering or related discipline.
• 10+ years of Program Management experience, $50M–$100M+ program lifecycle in aerospace/defense.
• Extensive experience negotiating multi-million dollar agreements with large Aerospace and Defense customers.
• Demonstrated track record leading large scale aerospace and defense business capture efforts.
• Must possess advanced knowledge of program management standards (scheduling, cost accounting, EVMS, Risk/Opportunity management).
• Willingness to travel up to 25% in support of program and business.

Responsibilities

• Establish and control program budgets aligned with program needs.
• Ensure all projects within assigned program are managed and executed within approved program management processes.
• Make personnel recommendations in support of business objectives.
• Drive Earned Value Management principles and initiatives within the business and use EVMS to report program status internally and externally.
• Identify and pursue significant new business opportunities.
• Work closely with Sales and Product Management personnel to maintain institutional knowledge of the competitive landscape in the assigned market segment.
• Develop high-quality competitive proposals that facilitate achievement of business segment objectives.
• Collaborate with all functions to leverage program execution and capture strategies, and resources through the design and manufacturing phases of the programs in the portfolio.
• Grow relationships in the customer community and with large industry primes to service existing programs and find new and unique ways to deploy our technology to meet customer needs.
• Provide consistent leadership to the program execution staff to ensure effective and efficient execution of assigned programs.
• Monitor and guide junior PMs to achieve delivery of distinctively high-quality products and services; to include performance, reliability, cost and on-time delivery.
• Contribute to the development and retention of program management talent.

Skills

Program management

Aerospace & defense

Negotiation

Communication

Travel willingness

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business, Engineering or related discipline

Job description

Saab is seeking a Principal Program Manager to be responsible for the profitable execution of development programs within the Surveillance division, onsite at our East Syracuse, NY office.

The successful candidate will have demonstrated experience in the design, development and fielding of large scale radar systems for military or commercial use, and will manage multi-program portfolios with EVMS, budgets and schedules.