Director, Program Management - Spectral Solutions

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Job Title: Director, Program Management - Spectral Solutions

Job Code: 22625

Job Location: Fort Wayne, IN

Job Description

For the past 65 years, from the dawn of the Space Age, our L3Harris Spectral Solutions business has been an industry-leading provider of high-precision, space-based instruments for severe weather tracking and forecasting, and low latency, high-throughput ground systems providing command, control, communications, data processing, and spectrum management for domestic and international customers. In addition to a long legacy and continued growth in our civil weather mission, our differentiated solutions have also disrupted the Missile Defense market. Within the past 5 years, we now own a sizable share of our nation’s future missile defense architecture for the Department of Defense as an end-to-end mission Prime Contractor. We are looking for a strong leader to take on a vital role as Deputy Director, Spectral Solutions, responsible to the Spectral Solutions Vice President and General Manager (VP/GM), to drive measurable program execution, ensure organizational capacity, and increase business scalability in this rapidly growing portfolio. This role supports an annual revenue of nearly $1B, active contracts worth over $6B, and has been the primary organic growth engine within the Space and Airborne Systems Segment. This position will have a direct interface with internal/external customers, our team of key business contributors, and stakeholder leadership. The role includes responsibility for guiding L3Harris employees in their work and influencing them to deliver their best while acting within the L3Harris corporate values.

Essential Functions:

As Deputy Director, Spectral:

• Coordinate and support cross-product line initiatives including representing VP/GM in essential internal meetings and reviews as required
• Develop and execute on our scalability initiatives in Physical scale, Personnel Scale, and Process scale
• Coordinate with the Spectral Solutions staff and cross-functional teams to ensure all assigned projects are completed on time and within budget
• Coordinate with our Division Business Operations function and personnel including their essential strategic and tactical functions and related deliverables
• Manage high-level relationships with internal stakeholders
• Align Divisional Internal Research and Development priorities and technology roadmaps with divisional Chief Engineer and Sector/Segment budgets
• Align discretionary spend priorities with divisional Business Operations and Sector/Segment Business Development
• Participate in development of divisional joint strategic plan
• Prioritize resources, personnel, and workforce assignments
• Manage the cost, schedule, and performance requirements of Division-level projects through all phases from inception to completion
• Drive actions and mitigations to assure the Division achieves financial Annual Operating Plan objectives
• Support planning for and involvement in applicable trade shows

As Director, Program Management Function:

• Drive consistent Program Management processes across our programs and product lines, and implementation of common Program Management Excellence (PMX) toolsets
• Interface with L3Harris PMX organization as primary divisional point of contact
• Lead monthly operating review cadence for the division in compliance with PMX policies and practices
• Instrument the business for relevant, actionable, preventative leading indicators
• Enable career development, succession planning, performance management, coaching/mentoring, and hiring of required staff
• Support the preparation of proposals, business plans, proposal work statements and specifications, operating budget, and financial terms/conditions of contracts within divisional, and corporate standards
• Participate in overall marketing strategies, internal/external communications, and business planning in support of L3Harris initiatives and strategic corporate business pursuits as required
• Act as or support capture/proposal manager for strategic captures

As Deputy Fort Wayne Site Executive:

• Plan and execute annual capital spend allocation to scope, budget, and schedule commitments in support of business annual operating plan and three-year strategic plan objectives
• Manage the competing capitalization trades for our site
• Perform site executive responsibilities for managing Fort Wayne site infrastructure and seating capacity
• Lead and participate in employee engagement initiatives/strategy
• Lead and participate in local community ties to our company and workforce
• Drive Employee Engagement Survey action plans/initiatives

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree with a minimum of 15 years of prior related experience; Or, Graduate Degree with a minimum of 13 years of prior related experience; Or, in lieu of a degree, a minimum of 19 years of prior related experience

Preferred Additional Skills:

• Experience leading complex hardware and software development contracts with profit and loss responsibility
• Experience in both fixed price and cost-plus contract types with government entities
• 4+ years of experience with Earned Value Management Systems (EVMS)
• 4+ years of direct leadership experience
• 8+ years of related experience in engineering or program management
• Space programs experience via both Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) and Other Transactional Agreements (OTA)
• Familiarity with civil national weather and DoD missile defense enterprise, including knowledge of cognizant government and industry stakeholders 
• Experience in the acquiring/customer side of the markets we serve
• Experience in program growth through value-added change proposal activity
• Experience developing and executing a strategic plan
• Capture management and proposal experience
• Active Secret clearance or Top Secret/SCI with Polygraph

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