IT Portfolio Director (Project Director I - Tech) * Remote worker opening

Job Description
What's it like working for a company where you are treated as more than a number? Empowering. Joining our Enterprise Shared Services team means you are the backbone behind managing all the technology aspects for multiple contracts and programs that help keep nations safe. With the diversity of our offerings and work, you'll get to take on new challenges while your career reaches new heights.
BAE Systems, Inc. Enterprise Shared Services (ESS) is looking for an experienced and results-driven Portfolio Director to join our team, overseeing technology programs and projects for our Space & Mission Systems sector. The role will report into our ESS Project Management Office (PMO) with dotted line accountability to the SMS Business Technology Officer (BTO).
Key responsibilities include:

• Acts as the primary liaison between the PMO and the BTO organization in shaping project demands to successfully execute against sector IT roadmaps. Understand the short- and long-term roadmaps for the portfolio and adjust execution plans as priorities change.
• Collaborate across business and technology functions to monitor dependencies and provide centralized visibility across the initiatives.
• Provide IT functional leaders with demand views that enable the ability to appropriately plan resource assignments and needs and understand demand versus capacity.
• Manage issues and risks within the portfolio. Make key tradeoff decisions to do the "right" thing for the portfolio, considering all perspectives.
• Ensure consistency and excellence in the execution and efficiency of workflow across methodologies and frameworks within the portfolio.
• Serve as a member of the PMO leadership team, accountable for collaborating with peers and business partner to shape the PMO roadmap to meet future organizational needs. Stay current with business and technology trends. Champion change and innovation and socialize a forward-thinking roadmap.
• Supervise a team of Project Managers in successful delivery of sector technology projects. Provide coaching, mentoring, and career development support of team members.
• Supports organizational and ESS leadership in overseeing, managing and applying the BAE Life-Cycle Management framework to achieve the organization's goals and objectives.

The candidate shall be highly customer focused, meeting customer expectation and responsive to feedback. The ideal candidate shall leverage servant leadership, emotional intelligence, strong communication and decision making skills to navigate effectively across all functional areas and organizational levels.
Required Education, Experience, & Skills
- Bachelor's Degree and minimum 12 years work experience.
- Minimum 10 years direct experience leading complex technology programs as a Project or Program Manager.
- PMP Certification

• Enhanced servant leadership skills.
• Effective customer ownership, customer centricity.
• Effective design and development of P3 execution strategies.
• Effective leadership of program / project execution, program/project success.
• Hands-on experience with agile project execution, release agility.
• A high degree of political sensitivity and astuteness.
• Strong stakeholder management skills. Detail oriented, organized, disciplined. Proactive, problem solving skills, innovative, change champion.
• Business and strategic plan development. Project finance management experience. Earned Value Management experience.
• Process development experience. Executive level communication and presentation skills.
• Learning agility, relentless improvement mindset.
• Expertise in Microsoft Project, Excel, Word, PowerPoint.

Preferred Education, Experience, & Skills

• Masters degree.
• Agile Certification.
• IT experience in the aerospace & defense industry

Pay Information
Full-Time Salary Range: $150370 - $255630
Please note: This range is based on our market pay structures. However, individual salaries are determined by a variety of factors including, but not limited to: business considerations, local market conditions, and internal equity, as well as candidate qualifications, such as skills, education, and experience.
Employee Benefits: At BAE Systems, we support our employees in all aspects of their life, including their health and financial well-being. Regular employees scheduled to work 20+ hours per week are offered: health, dental, and vision insurance; health savings accounts; a 401(k) savings plan; disability coverage; and life and accident insurance. We also have an employee assistance program, a legal plan, and other perks including discounts on things like home, auto, and pet insurance. Our leave programs include paid time off, paid holidays, as well as other types of leave, including paid parental, military, bereavement, and any applicable federal and state sick leave. Employees may participate in the company recognition program to receive monetary or non-monetary recognition awards. Other incentives may be available based on position level and/or job specifics.
About BAE Systems, Inc.
BAE Systems, Inc. is the U.S. subsidiary of BAE Systems plc, an international defense, aerospace and security company which delivers a full range of products and services for air, land and naval forces, as well as advanced electronics, security, information technology solutions and customer support services. Improving the future and protecting lives is an ambitious mission, but it's what we do at BAE Systems. Working here means using your passion and ingenuity where it counts - defending national security with breakthrough technology, superior products, and intelligence solutions. As you develop the latest technology and defend national security, you will continually hone your skills on a team-making a big impact on a global scale. At BAE Systems, you'll find a rewarding career that truly makes a difference.
This position will be posted for at least 5 calendar days. The posting will remain active until the position is filled, or a qualified pool of candidates is identified.