Vertex Inc

Sr. Program Manager for Growth, Modernization & Sustainment

Vertex Inc$100K — $130K *
Aerospace & Defense
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of relevant work experience in program management
  • 7+ years of experience in business development and capture management
  • 5+ years leading cross-functional teams through development to production
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience
  • Proven track record in system requirements management and team leadership
  • Strong entrepreneurial mindset with experience in business growth
  • Ability to effectively engage and communicate across various management levels

Responsibilities

  • Establish a vision for developing opportunities in Modernization and Sustainment
  • Lead and execute capture activities within timelines and budgets
  • Mentor and guide program managers in capture activities
  • Act as the company representative to senior customers, fostering dialogue for growth
  • Ensure compliance and address programmatic concerns promptly with customers
  • Facilitate technical collaboration with internal and external stakeholders
  • Prepare management briefing materials and organize stakeholder meetings

Benefits

  • Professional development opportunities
  • Collaborative work environment
  • Mentorship from experienced leaders
  • Engagement with high-level defense customers
  • Contribution to impactful defense modernization projects
Full Job Description
Overview

V2X is growing! V2X is looking for a Senior Program Manager to join our team! Modernization & Sustainment seeks a Program Manager (PM) supporting the Modernization and Sustainment business in Indianapolis. The PM leads a dynamic and multidiscipline team(s) across the Modernization and Sustainment business. In this role, the individual will enhance the business driving teams through strategy, planning, customer engagement and capture processes to win competitive business. Role will focus on shaping customer requirements, building winning teams, driving the total lifecycle of new business capture.

Responsibilities

This leader establishes the vision and strategic approach to develop opportunities and lead capture teams to grow the Modernization and Sustainment business. The successful candidate will provide lead and execute captures, ensuring execution within customer timelines, within negotiated budgets and mentor/lead other program managers to capture their own opportunities. The PM will be accountable for achieving all internal financial goals for growth and cost targets, supporting process improvement initiatives, and ensuring compliance to all applicable policies and procedures. The PM will be responsible to the customer to deliver compliant and executable solutions or services. The PM will work closely with customers across all service areas (USA, USAF, USMC, USN) to ensure programmatic concerns are addressed in a timely manner and foster a strong working relationship.

As required, the PM will lead/perform the following tasks:
  • Accountable to the business to achieve financial business goals for growth, cost and schedule
  • Provide mentoring and guidance to other program managers in executing capture activities
  • Act as the face of the company to senior customers for program creating an open dialog with the customer and using this rapport is able to create new growth opportunities.
  • Maintain relationship of trust and respect with internal stakeholders, customers, chief engineers, and other internal functional leaders.
  • Work with all functions (contracts, finance, engineering, supply chain, manufacturing, mission assurance, pricing) to successfully plan and execute opportunity capture.
  • Lead technical collaboration with internal and external customers looking for new opportunities.
  • Participate in internal and external Program Management Reviews (PMRs) and participate in TIMs with the customer and subcontractors as required.
  • Prepare status or briefings for management via collaboration with others to organize briefings and meetings for internal and external representatives.
  • Manage Risks and Opportunities.
  • Elevate issues and risks to appropriate levels within Program Office.
  • Effectively delegate tasking to the other PMO leaders/functional team while driving accountability
  • Coordinate customer communications with contracts, PMO and chief engineer.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications/Skills:
  • Ten (10) or more years of relevant work experience.
  • Seven (7) or more years successfully developing opportunities and leading capture of new business.
  • Five (5) or more years of successful leadership experience successfully leading a cross functional team of diverse individuals through development to transition to production.
  • Bachelor's degree or Eight (8) years of additional work experience in lieu of degree.
  • Experience leading development teams and system requirements management.
  • Entrepreneurially minded individual with demonstrated experience growing and executing a successful business, program and/or leadership of teams.
  • Demonstrated innovative 'out of the box' thinking to support business objectives.
  • Sound ethical values built upon trust, respect and 'doing the right thing'.
  • Experience utilizing program management practices including scheduling, earned value management systems (EVMS), financial systems and program control, risk and opportunity (R&O) management.
  • Effective oral, written, listening and computer skills to develop and present narratives and briefings using Microsoft Office.
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
  • Demonstrated ability to effectively work with and communicate with multiple levels of management and individual contributors on teams.
  • Experience with Microsoft Office suite of tools.
  • Must be a US Citizen with ability to obtain a DoD Secret level clearance.

Desired Qualifications/Skills:
  • Ten (10) or more years of successful Department of Defense (DoD) program management or Integrated Product Team (IPT) experience.
  • Capture Management Certification
  • Mechanical and/or electrical type product-based development leadership experience including interfaces to engineering, manufacturing, and suppliers of products.
  • Experience and understanding of the DoD 5000 lifecycle model, DoD uniform/civilian acquisition experience, and DoD development processes.
  • Experience on DoD Internal Research and Development (IRAD, Customer Research and Development (CRAD), Technical Demonstration (TD), System Development and Demonstration (SDD) or Engineering, Manufacturing, & Development (EMD) Programs.
  • Experience with weapon systems or special mission military platforms, architectures, capabilities, customers, and/or missions.
  • Familiarity with Counter Air Systems including Radar/EO-IR/RF detection, target tracking ,sensor fusion, RF effects,, kinetic/non-kinetic defeat, and networked kill-chain workflows.
  • Experience with domestic & international allied customers.
  • Science, Technology, Engineering or Math (STEM) degree and/or experience.
  • Master's Degree or other graduate degree.

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About Vertex Inc

Vertex Inc is a leading provider of tax technology and services, enabling companies of all sizes to realize the full strategic potential of the tax function by automating and integrating tax processes, while leveraging advanced and predictive analytics of tax data. Vertex provides cloud-based and on-premise solutions that can be tailored to specific industries for every major line of tax, including income, sales and consumer use, value added and payroll. Vertex also offers solutions for tax data management, compliance and reporting, tax research, and planning and analysis. The company was founded in 1978 and is headquartered in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania.
Learn more about Vertex Inc
Size
1,200 employees
Market Cap
$2.2 billion
Industry
Net Income
-$78.9 million
Founded
1978
Revenue
$374.6 million
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