Strategic Program Manager

Job Description At GDIT, people are our differentiator. We are seeking a Strategic Capture/ Program Manager to join our CMS Sector, leading strategic capture and program delivery initiatives while ensuring excellence in day‑to‑day operational delivery. In this role, you will drive Medicare strategic program execution, account planning and organizational readiness, while also supporting growth through capture, proposal development, and growth‑enablement activities. You will be part of a high‑impact organization helping evolve and scale GDIT’s CMS portfolio. How You Will Make an Impact Engaging with cross‑functional technical and business teams to advance innovation strategy, modernization roadmaps, and implementation planning. Support daily operations within our CMS Sector, ensuring effective program execution, issue resolution, and performance tracking (approximately 50% workload). Supporting business development and capture efforts (approximately 50% workload), including opportunity shaping, proposal input, color team participation, and development of staffing plans. Initiating and managing job requisitions for key personnel aligned to capture and delivery needs. Administering and maintaining relevant SharePoint sites to ensure documentation integrity, collaboration access, and functional structure for Bid and Proposal and operational workflows. Providing executive‑level briefings, risk assessments, and strategic recommendations to senior leadership to support decision‑making and growth of the CMS Sector. What You’ll Need to Succeed Education: Master’s degree Required Experience: 5+ years of experience leading complex IT, cloud, or modernization programs Required Technical Skills: Ability to manage competing priorities across operational delivery and business development; understanding of capture processes, proposal development, and federal acquisition lifecycle; demonstrated expertise in CMS strategy, modernization initiatives, and enterprise transformation; experience with program management, P&L accountability, organizational leadership, and executive communication; familiarity with Agile transformation, DevSecOps and modernization methodologies; experience building or managing SharePoint sites in support of program or B&P activities Attributes for Success: Strategic thinker with the ability to translate complex challenges into actionable plans; highly organized with exceptional attention to detail; collaborative, people‑centric leadership style; ability to thrive in a fast paced, deadline‑driven environment; excellent communication and relationship building abilities; strong executive presence, stakeholder management capability, and team leadership skills. Preferred Skills: 10+ years’ experience; Federal Acquisition Certification; PMP Certification; experience with managing teams; familiarity with program transitions; prior Federal Experience with CMS a plus Location: Hybrid – working 1 day onsite at the Windsor Mill, MD office Security Clearance Level: Must be clearable for a Public Trust – applicants shall have lived in the United States at least 3 out of the last 5 years prior to going through the public trust background investigation and submitting an application for a Federal ID Card Work Visa: Will not be considered for this position Benefits The likely salary range for this position is $129,813 - $172,500. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range. Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post‑tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match. To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave. GDIT typically provides new employees with 15 days of paid leave per calendar year to be used for vacations, personal business, and illness and an additional 10 paid holidays per year. Paid leave and paid holidays are prorated based on the employee’s date of hire. The GDIT Paid Family Leave program provides a total of up to 160 hours of paid leave in a rolling 12 month period for eligible employees. To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long‑term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available. We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most. Equal Opportunity Employer / Individuals with Disabilities / Protected Veterans #J-18808-Ljbffr General Dynamics Information Technology