Job DescriptionWe are seeking an experienced
Program Manager to provide leadership and oversight for a large-scale federal IT modernization program supporting the
Center for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS). The Program Manager will be responsible for ensuring all program objectives are achieved on time, within scope, and within budget, while maintaining high standards of quality and compliance with federal regulations and TRIA delivery practices.
The ideal candidate has extensive experience managing complex federal IT programs, collaborating with multiple stakeholders, and leading diverse technical and functional teams in support of mission-critical systems.
Basic Requirements: - Must have one of the following:
- Bachelor's degree in business, finance, or a related discipline with a minimum of 15 years' experience supporting U.S. Government contracts and customers and/or project management in other industries
- Master's degree in business, finance, or a related discipline with a minimum of 13 years' experience supporting U.S. Government contracts and customers and/or project management in other industries
- Business Acumen: The ability to apply knowledge, insights and understanding of business and financial concepts, tools, and processes to the benefit of program decisions, actions, and performance.
- Capture Management: Insight into customer technical and business (financial, political, cultural) requirements and the ability to shape customer expectations with a solution that satisfies their needs and is advantageous to the company.
- Program Growth: The ability to recognize and respond to customer needs to develop additional sales supporting organizational objectives.
- Customer intimacy: Consistently available to seek and incorporate input from customers and understand their expectations. Demonstrates commitment and energy to meet customer needs. Builds strong relationships with strategic partners and key suppliers. Guides program team and support functions on how to satisfy customer expectations.
- Proposal Management: The ability to define proposal strategy, lead proposal teams, analyze and shape RFPs, produce and deliver winning proposals, effectively track, and incorporate Review Team comments and findings, and manage post-proposal submittals (orals, finding responses).
Preferred Qualifications: - Communications: The ability to manage communications with stakeholders through organized processes to ensure that program information is defined, collected, shared, understood, stored, and retrieved in a manner that effectively meets program and stakeholder needs.
- Issue & Problem Resolution: The ability to identify and address program impacts through a systematic, proactive, approach to issue and problem resolution that identifies, communicates, monitors, and promptly resolves conflicts across all levels of the program.
Role & Responsibilities:- Cultivating customer relationships and intimacy to develop further opportunities within the customer community
- Developing new business opportunities through long term strategic planning, capture planning, and development of proposals and business plans
- Establishing a program organization that effectively addresses customer requirements and incorporates the necessary internal and external sub-organizations
- Leading and directing cross-functional Integrated Program Teams (IPT) to meet program cost, schedule, and technical performance objectives
- Measuring and reporting program performance
- Delivering presentations to customers, executive management, and other program stakeholders
- Participating in the negotiation of contracts, contract changes, specifications, operating budgets, schedule milestones, and key terms and conditions
- Establishing design concepts, criteria, and engineering efforts for product research, development, integration, and test
- Creation, review, and finalization of the program Statement of Work
- Identification, distribution, tracking, and completion of program requirements
- Establishment and management of the program and subordinate baselines
- Development and adherence to budget baselines utilizing Earned Value Management (EVM) or similar cost & schedule control methodologies and tools
- Identifying, allocating and managing program resources, including workforce planning
- Managing suppliers to meet program objectives
- Adherence to all internal processes, policies, and applicable industry standards
- Ensuring program team understands and adheres to contract scope, and manages change through control board activities
- Development and adherence to master plans and schedules
- Conducting thorough risk & opportunity management practices including identification, mitigation, and realization
Public Trust Clearance: This role will require the hired candidate to go through public trust clearance. A minimum of 3 years of stay in the U.S. within the last 5 years is required to be eligible to qualify for public trust clearance sponsorship.
