Project Portfolio Manager_Senior

OBXtek•McLean, VA

2d•$150,000 - $180,000

About The Position

OBXtek seeks a Senior Project Portfolio Manager to lead assigned federal customer programs, contracts, and task orders. The role is accountable for delivery, employee development and retention, customer relationships, financial results, and growth. The position combines disciplined program execution with business leadership, including meeting contractual commitments, building stable teams, achieving revenue and margin objectives, expanding existing work, and supporting captures, recompetes, and proposals. The Senior Project Portfolio Manager partners with Operations, Finance, Human Resources, Recruiting, Contracts, and Business Development to establish measurable goals, maintain reliable supporting records, and address risks early. The role is expected to deliver across five Program Manager Incentive Plan categories: Program Execution, Customer Satisfaction, Financial Performance, Organic Growth, and Support of New Business Growth Strategy. The listed salary range is $150,000–$180,000 per year. Actual compensation depends on factors including experience, education, skills, certifications, geographic location, project budget, contract requirements, and market conditions. A bachelor’s degree in a relevant field and 10 years of progressively responsible federal program or portfolio management experience are required. PMP or equivalent program management certification is preferred. Public Trust clearance is listed. Prospective and new employees must comply with OBXtek’s vaccination policy; full vaccination must be verified before employment starts unless an accommodation is approved. Employees onsite at customer locations must follow the customer’s vaccination requirements, which may include social distancing, masks, vaccination-status statements, and testing.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Management, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.
10 years of progressively responsible federal program or portfolio management experience, with accountability for delivery, staffing, customer relationships, and financial results.
Demonstrated success delivering concurrent contractual commitments, meeting quality and staffing requirements, managing risks, and maintaining corporate and contract compliance.
Experience managing revenue, direct margin, budgets, forecasts, estimates at completion, and funding constraints; ability to explain variances and drive corrective action with Finance and Contracts.
Ability to lead customer and executive discussions, collaborate across functions, address difficult issues candidly, and resolve escalations, supported by CPARS or equivalent documented customer feedback.
Demonstrated team leadership in recruiting, onboarding, retention, coaching, employee development, and succession planning.
Documented contributions to funded account growth and capture, recompete, proposal, solution, staffing, transition, or oral-presentation efforts, with clear examples of individual responsibilities and results.
Experience using measurable goals, dashboards, financial reports, risk registers, and opportunity records to drive decisions and quarterly reviews.
Public Trust clearance.
Compliance with OBXtek’s vaccination policy; full vaccination must be verified before employment starts unless an accommodation request is approved.
Compliance with customer vaccination requirements when working onsite at a customer location.

Nice To Haves

PMP or equivalent program management certification.

Responsibilities

Lead delivery across assigned programs and task orders, managing contractual requirements, schedules, deliverables, quality, Performance Requirements Summary results, staffing, risks, and corrective actions.
Maintain accurate program reviews and ensure timely compliance with company policies, timesheets, training, recruiting actions, and reporting deadlines.
Serve as a trusted customer and prime-contractor interface; set clear expectations, communicate performance and risks, resolve escalations promptly, and document customer feedback and corrective-action closure.
Support Satisfactory or better CPARS outcomes, or equivalent prime-contractor feedback when CPARS are unavailable.
Manage approved revenue, direct margin, and cost-control objectives; prepare accurate forecasts and estimates at completion; monitor staffing costs, funding, and financial risks; and coordinate with Finance and Contracts on billing, collections, and corrective actions.
Identify and shape opportunities to expand existing customer work through funded scope expansion, task order growth, customer-funded enhancements, follow-on work, and option support.
Partner with Business Development and Contracts to document growth opportunities and validate funded results through executed contract actions and Finance records.
Support assigned captures, recompetes, proposals, customer shaping, and adjacent opportunities by contributing management approaches, staffing and transition plans, solution artifacts, past-performance inputs, subject matter expertise, and oral-presentation preparation; maintain evidence of contributions.
Build and retain a stable team through timely hiring, coaching, employee issue resolution, development, and succession planning.
Set measurable annual goals, maintain monthly program and financial reporting, and document results for at least quarterly cross-functional reviews.