Senior Program Manager, Nz
1 week ago
Business Unit:
Cubic Transportation Systems
Company Details:
When you join Cubic, you become part of a company that creates and delivers technology solutions in transportation to make people’s lives easier by simplifying their daily journeys, and defense capabilities to help promote mission success and safety for those who serve their nation. Led by our talented teams around the world, Cubic is committed to solving global issues through innovation and service to our customers and partners.
Job Details:
Job Summary: Responsible for the management, performance and completion of single or multiple high technology programs that require the development (hardware and software), manufacture, and test of electronic and electro-mechanical systems. Assures that contractual obligations are met within assigned budget and schedule. Primary contact with customer on assigned programs that generally have a total value of $15-$50 million. Assignment will generally be to higher risk, higher value programs with responsibility at the total system level. This position typically works under limited supervision and direction. Incumbents of this position will regularly exercise discretionary and substantial decision-making authority.
Essential Job Duties and Responsibilities:
- Manages multiple programs in accordance with contracts and policies, procedures and department instructions
- Ensures that contracts are met in the most efficient and profitable manner
- Serves as primary contact for customers
- Leads program execution to meet technical performance within cost and schedule
- Manages, oversees, monitors and approves all elements of assigned program activities from inception to completion including proposal development, product design, procurement, subcontracting, manufacturing, testing, delivery, installation and acceptance of products
- Plans and directs integration of cross-functional program teams that represents various organizations within the Company.
- Effectively manages major programs ($10M or greater in sales)
- Performs program financial management to ensure that profit is earned and cash is collected
- Performs Earned Value management tasks
- Actively performs risk management and pursues risk reduction on assigned programs
- Identifies program issues with sufficient lead for timely resolution
- Works to grow the program through contract changes and preplanned product improvements
- Develops proposals for new business
- Reviews and approves technical approach, feasibility and cost estimates
- Leads proposal preparation, statements of work and specifications, estimation of product/service costs, negotiation and administration of contracts
- Participates in marketing new technology, developing potential new business, and responsible for obtaining follow-on business in conjunction with Business Development
- Mentors program managers in successful execution of programs
- May directly manage a team and as such team management responsibilities (performance management, reviews etc) may be required
General Duties and Responsibilities:
- Comply with Cubic’s Quality Management System
- Comply with Cubic Occupational Health, Safety and Environment policies and procedures
- Comply with security in accordance with established policies and procedures of the organisations
- Other duties as requested
Minimum Job Requirements:
**Qualifications**:
Essential:
- University degree or equivalent in Project Management, Information Systems and Technology Management, Computer Science or other relevant discipline
- Project Management Certification in Prince2 or PMBOK
Skills/Experience/Knowledge
Essential:
- Minimum 10 years’ experience in delivering projects, including complex programs
- Must have appropriate customer experience. This will vary depending on the program
- Proven ability to manage multiple, high value projects at one time, including associated project teams
- Proven ability to be a decisive and pro-active leader, with an ability to people manage effectively
- Proven ability to input into business development processes
Personal Qualities
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to communicate new ideas/issues to internal and external customers
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
- Strong commercial acumen
- Good influencing and negotiation skills
- Highly driven, self-motivated, and able to work unsupervised
- Takes ownership of problem and sees it through to the end
- Establishes priorities and meet multiple deadlines
- Able to work at a detailed level and step back to a strategic level as required
- Able to deal with ambiguity and establish structure to provide clarity
- Adaptable and embraces change
Condition of Employment:
Successful outcome of a National Police Check
- The description provided above is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all job duties, responsibilities and requirements. Duties, responsibilities and requirements may change over time and
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