Subcontract Program Manager, Senior

Subcontract Program Manager, Senior | Lockheed Martin

Space is a critical domain, connecting our technologies, our security and our humanity. While others view space as a destination, we see it as a realm of possibilities, where we can do more we can innovate, invest, inspire and integrate our capabilities to transform the future. We are a dynamic team at the cutting edge of National Security Space dedicated to developing innovative technologies that address the most unique and pressing customer challenges. Our collaborative culture fosters creativity, teamwork, and the pursuit of excellence for our programs and our suppliers.

This is an opportunity to be at the forefront of managing critical partnerships for key discriminating deliverables that drive the success of a quickly growing business area with tremendous opportunity for advancement. The Subcontract Program Manager Sr position is an exceptional opportunity for high potential program managers, engineers, operations leaders, and subcontract managers to expand their skillset to include subcontractor proposal management, negotiations, and portfolio execution. This SPM role in particular provides proven multidisciplinary professionals with a path to program manager that sets them apart from their peers since suppliers often provide the most critical payloads to our customers and it gives aspiring PMs a leg up in negotiation and contract terms and conditions shaping.

You have internalized that an SPM plays a dual leadership role on a programan initiator to compel the supplier and the program to meet commitments. You are equally comfortable balancing risk between LM and Subcontractors, during negotiations and execution, to deliver an efficient custom solution. You understand that as an SPM you will use both LM and supplier schedules, requirement needs, and giver/receiver exchanges to push each party to drive program execution. You are a strategic, pro-active, contributor with experience in subcontract management, supplier performance, proposal support, and supplier negotiations.

As a Subcontract Program Manager Sr, you will oversee all cost, schedule, and technical performance aspects of our subcontractors and suppliers. You will be a part of the Subcontract Management Team (SMT), ensuring that every facet of subcontract management from request for proposal (RFP) to delivery aligns with program objectives and performance goals. Your leadership will drive the collaboration between Subcontract Managers, Subcontract Administrators, engineering, specialties, and suppliers to ensure compliant execution within cost and schedule constraints.

Key Responsibilities:

• Support the Subcontract Management Team (SMT) to develop and maintain a consistent business rhythm, ensuring that cost, schedule, and technical objectives are met.
• Oversee the end-to-end subcontracting process, including RFP activities, negotiations, awards, and performance management.
• Ensure subcontractor performance aligns with program specifications, including cost, schedule, quality, and earned value requirements.
• Manage and release deliverables, including Statements of Work (SOWs) and Subcontract Data Requirements Lists (SDRLs).
• Support programmatic and technical meetings with subcontractors and internal engineering teams, fostering clear communication and accountability.
• Identify and resolve issues impacting subcontractor performance, ensuring continuous progress and delivery.

To be effective, ideally, you should also have:

• Proven ability to operate in various capacities and levels in a fast-paced competitive environment.
• Understanding in the field. Working knowledge in navigating the processes, procedures, negotiation, and management of all phases of the subcontract lifecycle across programmatic and technical disciplines internally and at the supplier.
• Work is performed with nominal guidance and direction to help assess, interpret cost/schedule/technical data and risks/opportunities as the scope owner or CAM and implement and communicate strategic execution/recovery plans.
• Manages increasingly complex assignments, exercises reasonable latitude to accomplish objectives and readily requests support prior to exercising unusual approaches.
• Understands, inspires, learns, and coaches the team to make more effective decisions in within across functional, and accountable, environment.
• Communicates at all levels both internally and externally with impact (including as high as LM and Supplier Program Management Team, with occasional Executive and End customer interaction).
• At a minimum successfully manages a portfolio of Complexity level 2&3, with occasional Complexity level 1 suppliers, with NRE < 20% or higher risk, including Fixed Price and Cost Type Contract Structures.
• Supports tactical initiatives within global supply chain.
• Engineering Professionals: Experience as a Certified Principal Engineer or Responsible Subsystem Engineer
• Engineering Professionals: understanding of requirements language, flow downs, and mission assurance
• Supply Chain Professionals: Experience with Commercial Acquisition Procedures (CAP) and Lockheed Martin Acquisition Policies (LMAP)

By applying to this job, you are expressing interest in this position and could be considered for other career opportunities, within Lockheed Martin, where similar skills and requirements have been identified as a match. Should this match be identified you may be contacted for this and future openings. Applicants selected will be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.