JOB DESCRIPTION

What’s it like working for a company where you are treated as more than a number? Empowering. Joining our Enterprise Shared Services team means you are the backbone behind managing all the technology aspects for multiple contracts and programs that help keep nations safe. With the diversity of our offerings and work, you’ll get to take on new challenges while your career reaches new heights.
BAE Systems, Inc. Enterprise Shared Services (ESS) is looking for an experienced and results-driven Portfolio Director to join our team, overseeing technology programs and projects for our Space & Mission Systems sector. The role will report into our ESS Project Management Office (PMO) with dotted line accountability to the SMS Business Technology Officer (BTO).

PREFERRED EDUCATION, EXPERIENCE, & SKILLS

• Masters degree.
• Agile Certification.
• IT experience in the aerospace & defense industry

Required Education, Experience, & Skills

• Bachelor’s Degree and minimum 12 years work experience.
• Minimum 10 years direct experience leading complex technology programs as a Project or Program Manager.
• PMP Certification
• Enhanced servant leadership skills.
• Effective customer ownership, customer centricity.
• Effective design and development of P3 execution strategies.
• Effective leadership of program / project execution, program/project success.
• Hands-on experience with agile project execution, release agility.
• A high degree of political sensitivity and astuteness.
• Strong stakeholder management skills. Detail oriented, organized, disciplined. Proactive, problem solving skills, innovative, change champion.
• Business and strategic plan development. Project finance management experience. Earned Value Management experience.
• Process development experience. Executive level communication and presentation skills.
• Learning agility, relentless improvement mindset.
• Expertise in Microsoft Project, Excel, Word, PowerPoint

• Acts as the primary liaison between the PMO and the BTO organization in shaping project demands to successfully execute against sector IT roadmaps. Understand the short- and long-term roadmaps for the portfolio and adjust execution plans as priorities change.
• Collaborate across business and technology functions to monitor dependencies and provide centralized visibility across the initiatives.
• Provide IT functional leaders with demand views that enable the ability to appropriately plan resource assignments and needs and understand demand versus capacity.
• Manage issues and risks within the portfolio. Make key tradeoff decisions to do the “right” thing for the portfolio, considering all perspectives.
• Ensure consistency and excellence in the execution and efficiency of workflow across methodologies and frameworks within the portfolio.
• Serve as a member of the PMO leadership team, accountable for collaborating with peers and business partner to shape the PMO roadmap to meet future organizational needs. Stay current with business and technology trends. Champion change and innovation and socialize a forward-thinking roadmap.
• Supervise a team of Project Managers in successful delivery of sector technology projects. Provide coaching, mentoring, and career development support of team members.
• Supports organizational and ESS leadership in overseeing, managing and applying the BAE Life-Cycle Management framework to achieve the organization’s goals and objectives.
  The candidate shall be highly customer focused, meeting customer expectation and responsive to feedback. The ideal candidate shall leverage servant leadership, emotional intelligence, strong communication and decision making skills to navigate effectively across all functional areas and organizational levels.

Required Education, Experience, & Skills

• Bachelor’s Degree and minimum 12 years work experience.
• Minimum 10 years direct experience leading complex technology programs as a Project or Program Manager.
• PMP Certification
• Enhanced servant leadership skills.
• Effective customer ownership, customer centricity.
• Effective design and development of P3 execution strategies.
• Effective leadership of program / project execution, program/project success.
• Hands-on experience with agile project execution, release agility.
• A high degree of political sensitivity and astuteness.
• Strong stakeholder management skills. Detail oriented, organized, disciplined. Proactive, problem solving skills, innovative, change champion.
• Business and strategic plan development. Project finance management experience. Earned Value Management experience.
• Process development experience. Executive level communication and presentation skills.
• Learning agility, relentless improvement mindset.
• Expertise in Microsoft Project, Excel, Word, PowerPoint.