Senior Program Manager, Defense Projects (Secret Clearance)

Raytheon; Goleta (CA); On-site; USD 146,000 - 277,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

401(k) match

Flexible schedules

Paid time off

Holidays

Employee Scholar Program

Job summary

RTX in Goleta, CA seeks a Senior Program Manager to lead a fast-moving sustainment portfolio across development, production, and support. You will direct customer interactions, proposals, negotiations, and cross-functional leadership with Engineering, Operations, Mission Assurance, Supply Chain, Finance, and Contracts.

The role emphasizes profit and loss accountability, risk management, and program execution, with domestic travel and a focus on securing strong customer relationships and

Qualifications

• Typically requires a Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience and minimum 10 years of prior relevant experience, or an Advanced degree in a related field and minimum 17 years’ experience.
• Program management or leadership experience.
• Experience working sustainment program.
• Experience with reporting metrics through EAC reviews and/or customer Program Management Reviews.
• Experience managing proposals, negotiations, and/or BOE’s.
• Active and transferable Secret U.S. government issued security clearance is required prior to start date with the ability to obtain program access after start

Responsibilities

• Understand and represent customer needs to leadership while building and maintaining excellent relationships with customers and key suppliers.
• Accountability for profit and loss, EAC inputs, and program execution including risk and opportunity, cost, quality, and schedule performance.
• Set program priorities, resolve conflicts and barriers, support internal and external reviews with leadership and the customer(s).
• Provide leadership and direction to a cross functional team across multiple Raytheon sites.
• Identifies and reacts to problems and supports solutions, such as allocation of resources and operational execution.
• Manage and grow the customer relationship and ensure customer satisfaction.
• Lead proposal and negotiation activities with domestic customers, industry partners and suppliers.
• Expected to support domestic travel as needed.

Skills

Program management

Leadership

Sustainment

Proposals

EAC reviews

Customer relations

Negotiations

Travel

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Advanced degree

Job description

RTX in Goleta, CA seeks a Senior Program Manager to lead a fast-moving sustainment portfolio across development, production, and support. You will direct customer interactions, proposals, negotiations, and cross-functional leadership with Engineering, Operations, Mission Assurance, Supply Chain, Finance, and Contracts.

The role emphasizes profit and loss accountability, risk management, and program execution, with domestic travel and a focus on securing strong customer relationships and