Subcontract Program Manager, Sr

Subcontract Program Manager, Sr

This is an opportunity to be at the forefront of managing critical partnerships for key discriminating deliverables that drive the success of a quickly growing business area with tremendous opportunity for advancement. The IC3 Subcontract Program Manager Sr position is an exceptional opportunity for high potential program managers, engineers, business operations leaders, and subcontract managers to expand their skillset to include subcontractor proposal management, negotiations, and portfolio execution. This SPM role in particular provides proven multidisciplinary professionals with a path to program manager that sets them apart from their peers since suppliers often provide the most critical payloads to our customers and it gives aspiring PMs a leg up in negotiation and contract terms and conditions shaping.

You have internalized that an SPM plays a dual leadership role on a programan initiator to compel the supplier and the program to meet commitments. You are equally comfortable balancing risk between LM and Subcontractors, during negotiations and execution, to deliver an efficient custom solution. You understand that as an SPM you will use both LM and supplier schedules, requirement needs, and giver / receiver exchanges to push each party to drive program execution. For those with program management or supply chain backgrounds : You are a strategic, pro-active, leader with demonstrated experience in subcontract management, supplier performance, proposal support, and supplier negotiations. For those with production, operations, or engineering backgrounds : You are a strategic, pro-active, leader with demonstrated experience in your operational or technical field. You have a proven background creating clarity with vision and strategy that you have communicated to all levels (technician to senior leadership). You will develop practical solutions to a range of complex problems while working under general direction and participating in determining assignment objectives. Your work is done independently and is reviewed at critical points.

As a P224 Subcontract Program Manager Sr, you will oversee all cost, schedule, and technical performance aspects of our subcontractors and suppliers. You will be the lead of a portfolio of various contract types, ensuring that every facet of subcontract management from request for proposal (RFP) to delivery aligns with program objectives and performance goals. Your leadership will drive the collaboration between Subcontract Managers, Subcontract Administrators, engineering, specialties, and suppliers to ensure compliant execution within cost and schedule constraints.

Key responsibilities include :

• Leading a portfolio of various subcontract types to develop and maintain a consistent business rhythm, ensuring that all costs, quality, schedule, financial and technical objectives are met.
• Ensuring subcontractor performance aligns with program specifications, including cost, schedule, quality, and earned value requirements.
• Identifying, forecasting, and resolving issues impacting subcontractor performance, ensuring continuous progress and delivery.
• Leading programmatic and technical meetings with subcontractors and internal engineering teams, fostering clear communication and accountability.
• Establishing milestone objectives and managing performance to committed schedules and contractual specifications.
• Leading process improvement efforts as identified.
• Overseeing the end-to-end subcontracting process, including RFP activities, negotiations, awards, and performance management.
• Managing and releasing deliverables, including Statements of Work (SOWs) and Sub.
• Travel will be primarily domestic, but could be international. Travel is expected to be minimal, e.g., for monthly 1-day PMRsbut could surge to 50-75% Mon-Fri if suppliers performance falters. As the responsible SPM, the ability to represent LM on-site at a supplier is required.

To be effective, ideally, you should also have :

$20M, AND / OR, Technical Professionals : Experience in the development, production, or maintenance of hardware.

50% or higher risk, including Fixed Price and Cost Type Contract Structures.

By applying to this job, you are expressing interest in this position and could be considered for other career opportunities where similar skills and requirements have been identified as a match. Should this match be identified you may be contacted for this and future openings.

This position requires a government security clearance, you must be a US Citizen for consideration.