Project Portfolio Manager_Senior

OBXtek Inc.•Mclean, VA

3d•$150,000 - $180,000

About The Position

OBXtek seeks a Senior Project Portfolio Manager to lead assigned federal customer programs, contracts, and task orders, with accountability for delivery, employee development and retention, customer relationships, financial results, and growth. The role 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 manager partners with Operations, Finance, Human Resources, Recruiting, Contracts, and Business Development to set measurable goals, maintain reliable records, and address risks early. The position is evaluated across Program Execution, Customer Satisfaction, Financial Performance, Organic Growth, and Support of New Business Growth Strategy. The role leads delivery across assigned programs and task orders, manages contractual requirements, schedules, deliverables, quality, staffing, risks, and corrective actions, and maintains accurate program reviews and timely compliance with company policies and reporting deadlines. It serves as a trusted customer and prime-contractor interface, manages financial objectives and forecasts, identifies funded opportunities to grow existing work, and contributes substantively to captures, recompetes, proposals, and related business-development efforts. The manager also builds and retains a stable team through hiring, coaching, issue resolution, development, and succession planning, while documenting results for regular cross-functional reviews. The stated annual salary range is $150,000–$180,000. Actual compensation depends on factors including experience, education, skills, certifications, geographic location, project budget, contract requirements, and market conditions. The position requires a Public Trust clearance. Prospective and new employees must comply with OBXtek’s vaccination policy; onsite customer work may also be subject to customer vaccination-related requirements.

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.

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 customer and prime-contractor interface; set expectations, communicate performance and risks, resolve escalations, and document 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 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, including 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 to new-business efforts.
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.