Senior Material Program Manager

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Join Collins Aerospace as a Senior Material Program Manager supporting the Resilient Connectivity Products portfolio, where you will play a central role in delivering critical supply chain outcomes for a high-visibility, growth-focused program. This position exists at the intersection of program execution and supplier strategy, ensuring material readiness, cost performance, and compliance across complex aerospace and defense initiatives. You will serve as a key link between suppliers, program leadership, and internal stakeholders, helping translate program requirements into executable supply chain strategies that support mission success.

In this role, you will lead supplier performance management, develop risk and mitigation plans, and drive material strategy across the full program lifecycle, from proposal through execution and contract closeout. You will oversee key activities such as make versus buy decisions, pricing strategy, and supplier negotiations, while ensuring alignment with regulatory and contractual requirements. Working closely with cross-functional teams, you will manage financial performance, support earned value activities, and coordinate logistics and production planning to meet technical, cost, and schedule objectives. This is an opportunity to take ownership of complex supply chain challenges and influence outcomes on programs that require both strategic thinking and disciplined execution.

What You Will Do:

• Lead supplier performance across cost, quality, and schedule, including development and execution of risk and mitigation plans
• Own end-to-end material strategy and execution across the program lifecycle, from proposal development through delivery and contract closeout
• Drive supply chain proposal activities, including basis of estimates, material pricing strategy, and alignment to price to win objectives
• Serve as the primary supply chain interface across program leadership, internal stakeholders, and customers
• Manage material flow across the integrated product team, ensuring on-time delivery through procurement, production, testing, and shipment
• Lead supplier negotiations, including claims and requests for adjustments
• Establish logistics, capacity, and supplier base strategies to support program and technology requirements
• Ensure accurate financial execution, including cost estimates, estimates at completion, and support for program reviews and gate activities
• Partner with Business Development and enterprise teams to support early program planning and strategic sourcing initiatives
• Define material requirements including lead times, critical path, and bill of material planning to support program execution

Qualifications You Must Have:

• Typically requires a University Degree and minimum 5 years of prior relevant experience, or an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 3 years of experience
• Demonstrated experience managing suppliers or subcontracts within a complex program environment
• Experience collaborating with internal stakeholders, customers, and external suppliers to support program execution
• Experience across supply chain functions such as procurement, material planning, production control, logistics, cost estimating, or finance

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Qualifications We Prefer:

• The ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government issued security clearance is preferred
• Experience with SAP, Ariba, Kinaxis, or similar supply chain and planning systems
• Experience with Earned Value Management or program financial management, including performance metrics and cost tracking
• Technical knowledge of circuit card assemblies and related manufacturing processes, including assembly, integration, and test
• Experience supporting development programs or transition to production, including material strategy and make versus buy decisions
• Experience with international sourcing, subcontract management, or global business operations, including direct commercial or foreign military sales
• Knowledge of U.S. Government acquisition regulations such as FAR and DFARS
• Experience working within an Integrated Product Team environment and leading or influencing cross functional teams
• Experience supporting supplier statements of work, translating customer requirements, and managing supplier performance
• Experience supporting program risk identification, mitigation planning, and issue resolution
• Strong analytical and project management skills, with the ability to use data to drive decisions and solve complex problems
• Program or Material Program Management certification or equivalent

What We Offer:

Some of our competitive benefits package includes: 

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance

• Three weeks of vacation for newly hired employees

• Generous 401(k) plan that includes employer matching funds and separate employer retirement contribution, including a Lifetime Income Strategy option

• Tuition reimbursement program

• Student Loan Repayment Program

• Life insurance and disability coverage

• Optional coverages you can buy pet insurance, home and auto insurance, additional life and accident insurance, critical illness insurance, group legal, ID theft protection

• Birth, adoption, parental leave benefits

• Ovia Health, fertility, and family planning

• Adoption Assistance         

• Autism Benefit

• Employee Assistance Plan, including up to 10 free counseling sessions

• Healthy You Incentives, wellness rewards program

• Doctor on Demand, virtual doctor visits

• Bright Horizons, child and elder care services

• Teladoc Medical Experts, second opinion program

• And more! 

Learn More & Apply Now!​

Do you want to be a part of something bigger? A team whose impact stretches across the world, and even beyond? At Collins Aerospace, our Mission Systems team helps civilian, military and government customers complete their most complex missions — whatever and wherever they may be. Our customers depend on us for intelligent and secure communications, missionized systems for specialized aircraft and spacecraft and collaborative space solutions. By joining our team, you’ll have your own critical part to play in ensuring our customer succeeds today while anticipating their needs for tomorrow. Are you up for the challenge? Join our mission today.

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