European Production Program Manager

Role Overview

• Foster and ensure a strong compliance environment within Global Trade, Releasability, and USG/European partner organizations
• Own the partner interface for your program, fostering a collaborative "One Team" culture with European production partners, NSPA, and CONUS Stinger teams, ensuring exemplary standards of service and value proposition.
• Drive team accountability while promoting a culture of innovation, continuous improvement, and excellence
• Lead and develop a high-performing team, fostering professional growth, mentorship, and talent development.
• Lead multiple internal and geographically dispersed team members, ensuring consistent and effective communication to drive programs and issues to resolution.
• Effectively manage financial controls (EVMS), Risk and Opportunity and RLPM to drive execution excellence, process and consistency across programs
• Develop and implement continuous improvement initiatives, leveraging RLPM and CORE
• Deliver projects on time and on schedule through leadership of cross-matrixed teams
• Establish, drive, and maintain key programmatic metrics, define milestones and critical path, monitor adherence to program budgets and schedules, and direct work to achieve these metrics
• Develop and present the program Annual Operating Plan (AOP) and financial forecasts outlook and commits to specific financial goals and obligations
• Accountable for program EACs, PMRs and business forecasting reviews.
• Interface with multiple internal and geographically dispersed team members, ensuring consistent and effective communication.
• Lead cross functional team to establish and execute a sourcing strategy for European Stinger production potential partners
• Ability to travel 50% of the time as needed

Requirements

• Typically requires a Bachelor’s degree and minimum of 12 years of relevant experience OR an Advanced degree and minimum 10 years of experience is required
• Experience in Program Management and Risk & Opportunity Measures
• Experience with production programs
• Working knowledge of EX/IM and Security requirements
• CORE certification or process improvement equivalent
• PMX Certification Level 3, or ability to obtain within 12 months
• Experience with financial analysis tools and project management tools and/or systems
• The ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government issued security clearance is required.
• U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance

Benefits

• medical
• dental
• vision
• life insurance
• short-term disability
• long-term disability
• 401(k) match
• flexible spending accounts
• flexible work schedules
• employee assistance program
• Employee Scholar Program
• parental leave
• paid time off
• holidays