Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. RTX, the world's largest aerospace and defense company, is seeking a Digital Technologies Senior Manager - Project Management. This role involves leading significant business technology projects, focusing on application development and modernization while blending traditional project management with Agile methodologies.
Responsibilities
- Lead & drive large-scale, complex DT projects, showing up with a proactive, entrepreneurial, demonstrating a strong sense of urgency and ownership, as if you were investing your own money in the project’s results
- Understand and support the Strategic Vision of the organization and ensure strategic alignment as a trusted advisor
- Foster trust and build collaborative relationships with digital and functional executive sponsors, ensuring a deep understanding of their strategic interests & viewpoints
- Ability to seamlessly navigate the political landscape amongst senior leaders in the function and DT
- Oversee all the normal PM fundamentals: project schedule, key decisions, resources, financials, requirements, issues, risks, dependencies
- Drive the project’s delivery cadence and maintain momentum and accountability, blending agile & waterfall techniques as needed
- Continuously demonstrate progress, provide status reports/briefings. Create compelling materials to effectively communicate with senior/executive leaders the value delivery story for the project
- Efficiently shepherd your projects through our phase-gated project governance framework. Maintain the team’s focus on critical cyber, architecture, and compliance artifacts and secure relevant approvals at each gate
- With grit and tenacity, attack complex issues and challenges for your project. You will need to initiate and skillfully navigate tactful executive escalations to drive critical decisions while preserving trust, maintaining relationships, and fostering a constructive path forward
- In addition to delivering exceptional results on your assigned project, you’ll participate in efforts to continuously enhance and mature our PM services while evolving our value management capabilities
- Ability to travel ~20% within US
Skills
- Typically a university degree and 10 years prior relevant experience OR an Advanced Degree in related field and minimum 7 years' experience OR in absence of a degree, 14+ years of relevant experience is required
- 5+ years of experience with project management oversight of DT software development or infrastructure initiatives
- 3+ years of proven experience managing large scale projects involving complex enterprise systems, such as ERP, Payroll, Data Repository, or Engineering systems
- 3+ years of a demonstrated ability to interface and collaborate with concurrent Enterprise projects, managing dependencies, resources, and schedule
- 3+ years of experience building and managing schedules in MS Project
- Experience working in a government and/or large, complex corporate/industrial environment
- Expert in creating visually appealing, executive-level PowerPoint presentations
- Experience developing & managing financial business cases & cost/benefit analyses for DT projects
- Experience with integrating multiple project methodologies including waterfall & Agile frameworks like SAFe
- Role model in exhibiting and intentionally developing leadership behaviors in yourself & others by Driving Results, Instilling Trust, Collaborating and Communicating Effectively, maintaining Customer Focus and demonstrating Courage and Strategic Vision
- Project Management certification (PMP, etc.) and SAFe or similar agile certifications
Benefits
- Healthcare
- Wellness
- Retirement and work/life benefits
- Career development and recognition programs
- Parental (including paternal) leave
- Flexible work schedules
- Achievement awards
- Educational assistance
- Child/adult backup care
- Hired applicants may be eligible for benefits, including but not limited to, medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability, 401(k) match, flexible spending accounts, flexible work schedules, employee assistance program, Employee Scholar Program, parental leave, paid time off, and holidays.
- Hired applicants may be eligible for annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation programs depending on the level of the position and whether or not it is covered by a collective-bargaining agreement.
- Payments under these annual programs are not guaranteed and are dependent upon a variety of factors including, but not limited to, individual performance, business unit performance, and/or the company’s performance.
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