Program Manager

Description

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Leidos’ Defense Systems Land Systems Business Area is seeking a Program Manager to join our growing Counter-Unmanned Aircraft Systems (C-UAS) team in Huntsville, Alabama. This role will report directly to the Portfolio Manager and will have a large impact on developing relevant solutions for our nation’s warfighters.

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Leidos Defense Systems Sector provides a diverse portfolio of systems, solutions, and services covering land, sea, air, space, and cyberspace for customers worldwide. Solutions for Defense include enterprise and mission IT, large-scale intelligence systems, command and control, geospatial and data analytics, cybersecurity, logistics, training, and intelligence analysis and operations support. Our team is solving the world’s toughest security challenges for customers with “can’t fail” missions. To explore and learn more, click here!

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Primary Responsibilities

The Program Manager will have a key impact on program execution and will:

• Lead IPT meetings and set expectations for project team
• Routinely evaluate programmatic metrics to ensure successful execution
• Manage risk and identify opportunities at the IPT level including working with the IPT to develop mitigation strategies and plans to realize opportunities
• Identify capability or process gaps and provide recommendations for improvement
• Foster intra-project coordination and communication
• Create program plans and objectives
• Define tasks and required resources
• Work with program schedulers to maintain schedule
• Support earned value management cost reporting to the customer
• Development, management, coordination and presentation of various informational products to support:
  • Weekly management meetings
  • Monthly internal and external programmatic reviews
  • Tracking and providing status of internal and external action items

Basic Qualifications

• BS degree in Business or Engineering from an accredited school and a minimum of eight (8) years of leadership experience, or an MS degree from an accredited school and six (6) years of leadership experience
• Cost estimating and Budget management
• Leading a large and diverse team including suppliers and subcontractors
• Disciplined metric-driven program management
• Proven experience managing and meeting tight schedules
• Effective communication of information between various functional disciplines as well as strong briefing skills with senior customer and corporate
• Proficient using Microsoft Excel, Word, Project, and PowerPoint
• Proven leadership skills including working in a team environment, fostering communication, listening to teammate concerns and reconciling internal issues or differences
• Proven ability to solicit and process complex information and data to solve complex problems and make sound decisions
• Analytical and strong organizational skills, with excellent verbal and written ability
• US Citizenship required
• Candidate must be a resident of the North Alabama area or willing to relocate to the Huntsville – North Alabama, AL, area

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting a multi-year development/production program valuing more than $100M
• Experience with data analysis tools, scheduling, and financial tracking systems is a plus
• Exposure or general knowledge of Earned Value Management

Original Posting:

June 24, 2025

For U.S. Positions: 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:

Pay Range $126,100.00 - $227,950.00

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.