Job ID: 714980BR Date posted: Jan. 19, 2026
Description:Program Management Senior Manager

The Program Management Senior Manager will represent the LM Aero IFG T-50 Program as the primary point of contact with U.S. and international customers, partners, and subcontractors. This role provides comprehensive program leadership and oversight to ensure customer requirements are executed in alignment with approved strategies, commitments, and contractual objectives, including 100% on-time delivery of program end items.

The Senior Manager will provide strategic direction for the T-50 Program, overseeing program execution, financial performance, staffing, and risk management. This position requires proactive leadership to drive affordability, operational excellence, and sound business decisions while fostering collaboration across internal and external stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities:

Serve as the primary interface with U.S. and international customers, foreign government representatives, partners, and subcontractor leadership.

Provide strategic program direction and oversight for the T-50 Program, ensuring execution aligns with business strategy, customer commitments, and contractual requirements.

Lead and oversee Lockheed Martin team performance, including risk identification, assessment, and mitigation.

Manage program financials and staffing cost elements to achieve performance targets and affordability objectives.

Drive proactive engagement across the Lockheed Martin team to ensure disciplined program execution and continuous improvement.

Advise, influence, and guide staffing decisions to develop innovative solutions and support sound business outcomes.

Demonstrate strong leadership through effective communication, timely feedback, and consistent support to management and program teams.

Model Lockheed Martin Critical Behaviors, foster a positive and collaborative team environment, and promote open communication across all stakeholders.
Basic Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree or higher, or equivalent related experience

Program and business management experience leading multidisciplinary teams

Experience communicating and working with foreign nationals

Business strategy and financial analysis experience supporting capture efforts and program execution

Active Secret clearance
Desired Skills:
Bachelor’s degree or higher with a minimum of 10 years of relevant experience.

Demonstrated experience leading multi-disciplinary teams, providing program and business management direction across Lockheed Martin teams and external partners/subcontractors.

Proven experience interfacing with U.S. and foreign government customers, partner and subcontractor leadership at all levels, and LM Aero senior management.

Experience managing program budgets, with working knowledge of foreign taxes, customs, and import/export regulations preferred.

Demonstrated ability to lead teams through change management initiatives, including execution of “what-if” analyses and trade studies to support sound business decisions.
Security Clearance Statement: This position requires a government security clearance, you must be a US Citizen for consideration.
Clearance Level: Secret
Other Important Information You Should Know
Expression of Interest: By applying to this job, you are expressing interest in this position and could be considered for other career opportunities where similar skills and requirements have been identified as a match. Should this match be identified you may be contacted for this and future openings.
Ability to Work Remotely: Part-time Remote Telework: The employee selected for this position will work part of their work schedule remotely and part of their work schedule at a designated Lockheed Martin facility. The specific weekly schedule will be discussed during the hiring process.
Work Schedules: Lockheed Martin supports a variety of alternate work schedules that provide additional flexibility to our employees. Schedules range from standard 40 hours over a five day work week while others may be condensed. These condensed schedules provide employees with additional time away from the office and are in addition to our Paid Time off benefits.
Schedule for this Position: 4x10 hour day, 3 days off per week
Lockheed Martin is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified candidates will be considered without regard to legally protected characteristics.
The application window will close in 90 days; applicants are encouraged to apply within 5 - 30 days of the requisition posting date in order to receive optimal consideration.
Join us at Lockheed Martin, where your mission is ours. Our customers tackle the hardest missions. Those that demand extraordinary amounts of courage, resilience and precision. They’re dangerous. Critical. Sometimes they even provide an opportunity to change the world and save lives. Those are the missions we care about.

As a leading technology innovation company, Lockheed Martin’s vast team works with partners around the world to bring proven performance to our customers’ toughest challenges. Lockheed Martin has employees based in many states throughout the U.S., and Internationally, with business locations in many nations and territories.
Experience Level: Experienced Professional
Business Unit: AERONAUTICS COMPANY
Relocation Available: Possible
Career Area: Program Management
Type: Full-Time
Shift: First