Program Analyst Sr. (Deputy PM)

Job Description
We are seeking a highly skilled and detail-oriented Program Analyst to join our team. The successful candidate will be responsible for performing a wide range of tasks across the Project Management processes, including initiating, organizing, integrating, planning, managing, and controlling projects or programs. This role will involve driving successful project and program outcomes against financial, schedule, technical, and/or new business performance objectives.

Key Responsibilities:

Under Direction of the assigned Program Manager/Director

• Perform tasks across the Project Management processes, including:
  • Initiating: Define project scope, objectives, and deliverables
  • Coordinating: Work with production, planning, contracts, supply chain, finance, etc. to ensure successful project planning and execution
  • Integrating: coordinating project activities, deliverables, action items and stakeholders
  • Planning: developing project schedules, budgets, and resource plans
  • Change: Assist with managing the change process, ensuring changes are quickly incorporated and funded
  • Execute: Perform processes and develop management plans with operations, anticipating and resolving schedule and budget deviations to meet management and project requirements
  • Controlling: monitoring and controlling project scope, schedule, budget, and quality
  • Developing and completing: Drive outcomes through collaboration delivering project results and documenting lessons learned
• Track progress against financial, schedule, technical, and/or new business performance objectives, including:
  • Monitoring and reporting on project metrics and key performance indicators (KPIs) including budget and schedule and prepare status reports and recovery plans using EVMS practices to inform leadership and customers
  • Identifying and addressing project risks and issues
  • Developing and implementing corrective actions to ensure project success
• Manage conflict collaboratively and support meetings and tasks assigned by the applicable Program Manager and/or Director of Programs

Required Education, Experience, & Skills

• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Operations Management, or related field and or relevant industry equivalent experience
• 3+ years of experience in project management, program management, or a related field
• "Yes If" problem solving mentality
• Strong knowledge of project management principles, methods, and tools
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills
• Proficiency in project management software and tools (e.g. MS Project, OpenPlan, Primavera)
• Experience with data analysis and reporting tools (e.g. Excel, Tableau)
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, Microsoft Teams, and SharePoint
• Ability to work collaboratively, independent and self-motivate in a fast paced environment while prioritizing multiple projects and tasks.
• Comprehension - ability to understand problems and to collaborate to explore identification of solutions.
• Organization - ability to organize and prioritize own work schedule on short-term, and/or long-term basis, both for self and others.
• Reasoning & Decision Making - ability to prioritize work projects and requirements; ability to develop concepts, plans and work schedules and communicate them to others, and/or to subordinate employees.
• Communication - regular requirements to use written and oral communication skills; interact with managers, staff, co-workers and others encountered in the course of work; ability to compose materials such as detailed reports and work related documents and communicate substantively about them either verbally or in writing; communicate interactively & make presentations effectively.
• Mathematics - ability to compute, analyze and interpret numerical and/or statistical data for reporting purposes

Preferred Education, Experience, & Skills

• Project Management Professional (PMP) or similar certification
• Earned Value Management (EVM) or similar certification
• Experience in Defense or Maritime Industries
• Experience with business development and new business initiatives
• Familiarity with financial planning and analysis tools (e.g. financial modeling software)
• Strong understanding of business operations and processes
• Government/Commercial New Construction Shipbuilding or Ship Repair experience
• Positive attitude, Team-oriented approach to problem solving

Pay Information
Full-Time Salary Range: $71600 - $121700

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 Platforms & Services
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.

The Platforms & Services (P&S) sector under BAE Systems, Inc does the big stuff: the armored combat vehicles, naval guns, missile launchers, and naval ship repair...just to name a few. Our employees take pride in the work they do and why they do it. They are on the front lines every day, building our products to protect the lives of those who serve. We may be biased, but we think P&S does some of the coolest work around, and we think you will too.