Program Management Manager

SAIC is looking for a Senior Program Manager (PM) to support a fast-paced, dynamic customer environment with broad impact to the customer’s mission, located in San Diego, CA. This position will support the customer group and is
responsible for providing a broad array of support to executive leadership. The ideal candidate must have strong problem solving skills with the ability to identify and anticipate requirements, while providing creative solutions to the team.

Position Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

Project Management:

• Builds and maintains working relationships with customers, team members, vendors, and other stakeholders.
• Responsible for the staffing, management, quality, and performance on the contract.
• Develop major concepts, initiatives, processes, procedures, PM tools and programs.
• Assess and enhance programs: Requirements Definition, Strategic Planning, and Stakeholder Analysis.
• Generate Project Charter, Project Management Plan, and After Action Reports.
• Prepare and facilitate informal workshops briefing and applying project Customer Project Processes, Procedures, and Program Management best practices for Government audiences.
• Drive the organization towards meeting customer requirements and strategic initiatives. Align team to program/customer vision and expectations.
• Ensure contract deliverables are submitted on a timeline basis.
• Responsible for all corporate financial and technical reviews of program performance.
• Provides leadership, guidance, training and resources to the contract leads, program team leads and individuals performers on their team.

Process Improvement:

• Guide and define business improvement and organizational process to drive critical functional areas to success.
• Develop and present needs assessments, briefings, position papers, and reports.
• Utilize business process tools and specialized expertise to streamline initiatives and integrate disparate rules, policy, and technologies.
• Leverage leadership team and problem-solving methodologies to foster solutions alleviating strategic roadblocks and create innovative solutions for ambiguous problem-sets.
• Facilitate meetings, informal workshops and brown-bag-type sessions related to customer initiatives, methodologies, and programs for audiences up to the executive level.

REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelors and fifteen (15) years or more of related experience; Masters and thirteen (13) years or more experience; PhD or JD and ten (10) years or more experience.
• Must be a U.S. Citizen.
• Must have an Active Secret Clearance at start.
• 5 years of experience as a personnel manager, Deputy PM, Technical Lead or Project Manager on contracts of a team of similar size, scope and complexity.
• PMP Certification.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• Excellent communication – Oral and Written.
• Proficient with Microsoft applications and programs (Visio, Project, Publisher, SharePoint, Outlook, Excel).
• Comprehensive and thorough knowledge of: Best Practices Studies, Business Case Analysis, Creative Problem Solving, Decision Briefing, Project Management Processes, Project Activity Implementation, and Risk Management, Strategic Planning.

DESIRED SKILLS:

• Experience with DoD Tactical Networks.
• Financial management and Financial Planning.
• Operational or analytic production experience.
• Knowledge of: Change management, Facilitation, Organizational Assessment, Process Modeling, Business Planning, Business Process Reengineering, Consensus Building, Organizational Restructure, Design, and Implementation, Project Management Processes, Data Modeling, and Benchmarking/metrics.
• Demonstrated ability to quickly ramp up to support customer’s needs, clearly communicate (orally and written) ideas, take initiative to provide creative solutions to challenges and/or systemic problems.