Modernization Program Manager

BAE Systems•Nashua, NH

6d•$153,377 - $260,743•Onsite

About The Position

BAE Systems’ Advanced Electronic Warfare Solutions (AEWS) Product Line is seeking a customer-focused Senior Program Manager to lead an established, high-performing, strategically important modernization program entering a period of growth. The Senior Program Manager will work as a leadership team with the existing Program Manager, who brings deep program knowledge and customer relationships. The role provides experience, mentorship, strategic perspective, and leadership while leveraging the existing PM’s expertise. The successful candidate will share leadership, develop talent, build partnerships, and strengthen the team rather than simply taking control. The position requires working fully onsite in a classified program environment and obtaining and maintaining the required SAP/SAR clearance level. BAE Systems describes its culture as performance-driven and values-led, emphasizing curiosity, creativity, collaboration, and work with an impact on national security and communities.

Requirements

Ability to work fully onsite in a classified program environment.
Ability to obtain and maintain the required SAP/SAR clearance level.
Track record of success planning and executing large, complex programs.
Ability to understand and communicate program performance status—including cost, schedule, resources, and risk—as well as performance against annual financial objectives to senior management.
Visible program leadership, leading by example and driving performance excellence.

Nice To Haves

Familiarity with electronic warfare.

Responsibilities

Provide leadership and accountability for a strategically important, complex, large modernization program.
Establish and maintain a disciplined program management operating rhythm, including integrated planning, risk and opportunity management, performance measurement, financial management, and executive communication.
Balance competing priorities and make fact-based decisions that protect the program, customer mission, and business objectives.
Communicate program status, issues, decisions, and recommendations clearly to senior leadership and customers.
Develop and maintain a high-performing program team based on accountability, trust, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
Mentor and develop the existing Program Manager through coaching, perspective, and opportunities to expand leadership responsibilities.
Build a complementary working relationship with the existing Program Manager, leveraging their program knowledge and customer relationships while providing additional leadership and strategic depth.
Create a unified leadership team with clear roles, mutual respect, and common objectives.