Description

Are you ready to get in on the ground floor of Amazon’s long-term initiative to design, launch and maintain a constellation of Low Earth Orbit satellites to provide low-latency, high-speed broadband connectivity to unserved and underserved communities around the world? It’s Day 1 for Amazon’s next billion-dollar business and the Kuiper Government Solutions (KGS) business is looking for an entrepreneurial minded Sr. Manager of Program Planning to work in a start-up environment who is passionate about technology, who thinks/acts globally, and has the ability to create and implement solutions, processes and controls with a focus on the public sector. The KGS team is focused on Government customers around the world, including U.S. DoD and other national security customers.

The successful candidate will be responsible for building the program planning function within KGS, providing qualitative and quantitative data analysis for program performance management, ensuring the business meets critical deliverables, program schedules (Integrated Master Schedule), as well as risk and opportunity tracking, management, and mitigation. This leader will work cross functionally alongside the program finance team, as well as the program management and engineering teams to ensure Government funded programs are tracked and performed on cost and schedule. As KGS grows and takes on more complex contract types, the successful candidate will be responsible for leading Earned Value Management (EVM) activities. This includes recommending the tools needed for the business to meet EVM requirements including initial IBRs and delivering IPMRs on a monthly basis amongst other requirements. The Head of Program Planning must prepare the organization to support DCMA surveillance audits as required. While still in the start-up phase, KGS will be tracking EVM “lite” metrics from an internal management perspective for program performance. The program planning organization will have responsibility for aligning our product roadmaps with Kuiper availability, ensuring we have products Government customers can use when Kuiper service comes online. The planning organization will also be responsible for creating integrated schedules that lay in both government program commitments as well as internal deadlines, and then align with Kuiper commercial on product availability and dependencies.

Key job responsibilities

• Work with KGS program managers, engineering staff, and finance to standardize development of KGS program schedules (resource loaded)

• Support KGS program managers and capture managers on development of proposal schedules in an ambiguous environment (outlining tasks, milestones, dependencies, and deliverables).

• Work with KGS program managers and engineering staff on scheduling approaches for program dependencies

• Develop, implement and report key financial and operating metrics and performance indicators to measure overall business performance, help develop the financials associated with internal and external review meetings and provide insights to finance and business leadership

• Develop processes and tool suites that automate program planning in support of RFx responses, new program stand-up, and annual budget submission

• Develop integrated KGS portfolio schedule that tracks key milestones and dependencies across all KGS programs

• Build “what-if” scheduling tools/processes that support KGS program risk assessments and program trade studies

• Security Clearance: Preferred for candidates to have an active US Government security clearance of TS/SCI or higher and be able to maintain a TS/SCI security clearance, so you must be a U.S. citizen for consideration.

Basic Qualifications

• 12+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience

• 10+ years of positions that require analysis and reporting financial results experience

• 8+ years of applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses experience

• 8+ years of creating process improvements with automation and analysis experience

• 4+ years of hiring, leading and developing teams experience

• Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting or related field

• 10+ years of US Government contract program planning experience

• Experience with integrated planning and scheduling

• Experience with scheduling software such as Microsoft Project, Deltek Open Plan, Oracle Primavera or similar scheduling software

• Experience with executive level project briefings

• Ability to build strong relationships and work cross functionally (Program Management, Product Management, Finance, Subcontractors)

• Experience with capture and proposal management process, and leading the development of program schedules for proposals

• Experience with cost and schedule integration and Earned Value Management

• Strong ability to deal with Ambiguity

Preferred Qualifications

• 8+ years of participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results experience

• 5+ years of working with senior staff (e.g. c-suite) experience

• MBA, or CPA

• Risk and Opportunity Management tracking and reporting experience

• Integrated Master planning experience

• Advanced skills in Microsoft Office products, especially Excel and PowerPoint

• Experience with agile program schedules

• DCMA surveillance reporting experience

• Experience implementing business policies and procedures

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