Program Director

Job Opportunity : Program Manager For Department Of Defense Projects

San Diego, California, US Full-Time Yes - May Consider Occasional / Part Time Teleworking for this position $158582.82 - $317165.63

Bring your expertise and critical thinking skills to make an impact towards our military defense by your new role supporting complex mission critical projects. Serco supports the Department of Defense as prime contractor supporting complex DoD modernization and sustainment projects. The team executes on multiple programs / contracts to ensure that modernization and sustainment projects are completed to allow for operational missions to successfully executed with limited impacts to operational readiness.

This position is contingent upon your ability to maintain / transfer your Secret clearance. You will lead a team of Program Managers to ensure successful execution of complex DoD modernization and sustainment projects, maintaining contractual performance standards, driving cost efficiency, fostering customer relationships for organic growth, and leading new business pursuits.

In this role, you will :

• Manage a diverse DoD portfolio, responsible for a P&L of over $70M annually with a staff of over 75 people.
• Oversee Program Managers and their teams to drive successful execution multiple complex Department of Defense Modernization and Sustainment projects / programs, with a focus on In-Service Engineering Activities.
• Be responsible for the profit and loss performance of all programs assigned to their portfolio.
• Be responsible for implementation of cost efficiency programs that will result in improving contract profitability.
• Be responsible for ensuring that all programs within the portfolio execute their defined contractual requirements and result in Contractual Performance Assessment Ratings (CPARS) of Satisfactory or above for all categories.
• Drive regular effective internal and external communications to ensure program status and issues are communicated in a timely manner. Expected to establish and maintain customer relationships to allow for the identification of opportunities for organic growth.
• Ensure that all internal and external contractual performance reporting requirements are completed in accordance with established guidelines.
• Expected to provide recommended solutions to resolve any identified program execution issues, while also ensuring corrective actions are executed.
• Be responsible for driving organic growth opportunities on all programs assigned to the portfolio.
• Be responsible for identifying new business opportunities to drive growth within the portfolio. Act as the operational lead in the capture and proposal for new business opportunity pursuits.
• Be responsible driving a 5% or greater YoY growth within the portfolio.

To be successful in this role, you must have :