Program Manager - Military Veterans

Description

Leidos is searching for a highly motivated Program Manager to lead an Enterprise Data Lake program for a new USDA customer. The role includes planning, executing, and managing resources while creating and maintaining relationship with the USDA customer. The PM responsibilities encompass ensuring program adherence to scope, schedule, and budget constraints, overseeing daily operations, communicating with support personnel to obtain status updates, and reporting as well as interfacing with Executive Leadership and functional leaders. This position will be based out of Washington, DC.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Organize, direct, and coordinate the planning and production of all contract activities.

• Lead team composed of Leidos team members and partners/subcontractors.

• Manage cost, schedule and performance delivery of contractual requirements.

• Ensure proper staffing to execute the program, and operate with the budget.  Identify and execute actions needed to mitigate any cost drivers.

• Support financial performance (revenue, operating income, margin) against the Annual Operating Plan, including a focus on maximizing profitability.

• Build and maintain a trusted advisor relationship with Customers while developing a deep understanding of their priorities.

• Work collaboratively with Business Development and other marketing/capture support personnel to enable growth on the contract.

• Coordinate, document, and communicate program status to both internal and external stakeholders.

• Manage and identify risks and opportunities, resolution and verification of effectiveness of corrective actions.

• Lead proposal activity as needed.

• Build a culture grounded in Leidos values, beliefs, and expectations and highest standards of ethical and respectful behavior.

Basic Qualifications:

• Active Project Management Institute (PMI) Project Management Professional (PMP) certification

• Ability to obtain a Public Trust Clearance.

• BA/BS degree in related field and 8+ years of prior relevant experience

• Experience serving as a Program Manager leading and supervising a large multi-disciplinary staff of various labor categories and skills. 

• Experience with Data Management

• Experience with Data Governance

• Experience with Data Lake Operations including storage and security

• Program Management experience of similar size/scope (~40M per year)

Preferred Qualifications:

• USDA customer experience

• Master's Degree in related field

• Experience with AI Operational Efficiencies

Original Posting Date:

While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

Pay Range:

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.