Senior Director Product Management For Display And Networking

Job Summary:

Mercury Systems is seeking a motivated, Senior Director Product Management for the Display and Networking Line of Business. The Line of Business is tasked with delivering mission-critical displays and cockpit management solutions for our aerospace and defense applications. Our comprehensive and proven avionics products offer world-class defense for high-value technology systems deployed in mission-critical applications.

This position reports to the Senior Vice President of the Processing Technologies Business Unit. The Senior Director for the Displays and Networking Line of Business will be responsible for leading a dynamic business area that is accountable for developing, integrating, sustaining, and modernizing mission capabilities that leverage the total capabilities of the broader Mercury business. This requires rapidly developing innovative solutions across the lifecycle that exceed our customer's mission requirements.

The ideal candidate shows up every day with realistic optimism and works within a high performing team that executes with a growth and integrated mindset. A "winning as a team" mentality that works with the other line of business peers as well as functional peers to be the highest performing processing technologies team in the industry is a must. The candidate must have excellent oral and written skills with a "can-do" and "partnering" attitude within the company, suppliers, partners and our customers. The candidate must be able to communicate with C-Level and throughout the organization including product management, program management, engineering and direct labor teams. A candidate that thrives on stress and leads the team to overcomes challenges to deliver results to the company, team, and customer is highly sought.

Job Responsibility:

The Senior Director will manage a portfolio of programs more than $60m/year delivering performance measured against the mission KPIs and long term financial and business goals. The position is accountable for driving business AOP performance and growth, leading a team comprised of a matrixed workforce. The Senior Director of this business develops the roadmaps to achieve the business vision, executes our strategic plans and direction, leads change and improvement efforts, and focuses and motivates the program area teams to achieve established goals. This role is also responsible for establishing and building strong domestic and international customers, partners, and subcontractor relationships to sustain the business.

The successful candidate will be a senior leader who is known and respected within defense and global markets, as well as the customer base of the program area. Having the technical understanding of the tactical cockpit solutions and capabilities is highly valuable in this role. This person will be a role model of integrity, leadership excellence, vision, and collaboration and will successfully execute technically complex, highly competitive programs of significant scope. This person will need to manage experimental, development, sustainment, and services programs within the portfolio and stay current with evolving technology trends.

The position is located in the Southeast and expected to travel and lead a multi-site team.

Required Qualification:

• B.S. degree in Engineering, Science, Mathematics, or business-related field is required. Master's degree, M.S. or MBA preferred.

• A minimum of 20 years of progressive experience in program management, preferably within the defense industry. Previous experience in a leadership role is essential.

• Progressive leadership experience managing a broad and expansive portfolio of programs and full life-cycle program execution to meet customer and business requirements.

• Experience with the tactical avionics mission with background in displays, tactical radios, cockpit instrumentation associated technologies.

• Experience and understanding of digital transformation technologies such as AI/ML, Agile/DevSecOps, Autonomy and/or Digital Engineering.

• Strategic thinker with capacity to manage business complexity and focus the organization on the critical top priorities.

• Experience leading collaboration across to fully leverage capability of business and support functions. Experience integrating regulatory, customer, political and market information into effective business strategies and plans.

• Successful experience developing and executing strategy for market and business

• growth.

• Demonstrated ability to establish, maintain, and or restore strong customer, business, partner, and stakeholder relationships.

• Successful experience managing change, building teams, developing leaders and mentoring others in a matrix structure.

• Possesses technical acumen; conversant and credible in discussing technical matters.

• Solid understanding of U.S. and International government procurement practices, prime contractor and subcontractor relationships, and decision points within the acquisition process.

• Demonstrated success with customers and external partners in business development, negotiations, capture and program execution.

• Program leadership, financial management: P&L experience of a significant organization, strong risk management and earned value management skills.

• Executive Level ability to communicate, influence and motivate a high performing team.

• Ability to operate effectively and creating bonds of trust and clear understanding of mutual

• interests.

• Must be able to travel as much as 30% of the time.

• U.S. Top Secret Clearance

• PMP Certification preferred.

"This position requires you to have or obtain a government security clearance. Security clearances may only be granted to U.S. citizens."

"This position requires you to access information that is subject to U.S. export regulations. You may only access such information if you are a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. government."