Position Overview:
OBXtek seeks a Senior Project Portfolio Manager to lead assigned federal customer programs, contracts, and task orders with accountability for delivery, employee development and retention, customer relationships, financial results, and growth. The ideal candidate combines disciplined program execution with business leadership: delivering contractual commitments, building stable teams, achieving revenue and margin objectives, expanding existing work, and contributing to capture, recompetes, and proposals. This role partners with Operations, Finance, Human Resources, Recruiting, Contracts, and Business Development to establish measurable goals, maintain reliable supporting records, and address risks early. The candidate should be prepared to deliver across the five Program Manager Incentive Plan (PMIP) categories: Program Execution, Customer Satisfaction, Financial Performance, Organic Growth, and Support of New Business Growth Strategy.

Key Responsibilities:

• Program Execution: Lead delivery across assigned programs and task orders; manage contractual requirements, schedules, deliverables, quality, Performance Requirements Summary results, staffing, risks, and corrective actions. Maintain accurate program reviews and ensure timely compliance with company policies, timesheets, training, recruiting actions, and reporting deadlines.
• Customer Satisfaction: Serve as a trusted customer and prime-contractor interface; establish clear expectations, communicate performance and risks candidly, resolve escalations promptly, and document customer feedback and corrective-action closure. Support Satisfactory or better CPARS outcomes, or equivalent prime-contractor feedback when CPARS are not available.
• Financial Performance: Manage approved revenue, direct margin, and cost-control objectives; prepare accurate forecasts and estimates at completion; monitor staffing costs, funding, and financial risks; and coordinate with Finance and Contracts on billing, collections, and timely corrective actions.
• Organic Growth: Identify and shape opportunities to expand existing customer work through funded scope expansion, task order growth, customer-funded enhancements, follow-on work, and option support. Partner with Business Development and Contracts to document opportunities and validate funded results through executed contract actions and Finance records.
• Support New Business Growth Strategy: Provide substantive support to assigned captures, recompetes, proposals, customer shaping, and adjacent opportunities. Contribute management approaches, staffing and transition plans, solution artifacts, past-performance inputs, subject matter expertise, and oral presentation preparation; maintain evidence of completed contributions.
• People Leadership and Accountability: Build and retain a stable team through timely hiring, coaching, employee issue resolution, development, and succession planning. Set measurable annual goals, maintain monthly program and financial reporting, and document results for at least quarterly cross-functional reviews.

Salary Range:  $150,000 - $180,000 per year. The salary range listed for this position represents a good-faith estimate of the expected compensation at the time of posting. Actual compensation will be determined based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to; the candidate's experience, education, skills, certifications, geographic location, project budget, contract requirements, and current market conditions.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Management, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.
• 10 years of progressively responsible federal program or portfolio management experience, with accountability for delivery, staffing, customer relationships, and financial results.
• Demonstrated success delivering concurrent contractual commitments, meeting quality and staffing requirements, managing risks, and maintaining corporate and contract compliance.
• Experience managing revenue, direct margin, budgets, forecasts, estimates at completion, and funding constraints; able to explain variances and drive corrective action with Finance and Contracts.
• Ability to lead customer and executive discussions, collaborate across functions, address difficult issues candidly, and resolve escalations, supported by CPARS or equivalent documented customer feedback.
• Demonstrated team leadership in recruiting, onboarding, retention, coaching, employee development, and succession planning.
• Documented contributions to funded account growth and capture, recompete, proposal, solution, staffing, transition, or oral presentation efforts, with clear examples of individual responsibilities and results.
• Experience using measurable goals, dashboards, financial reports, risk registers, and opportunity records to drive decisions and quarterly reviews. PMP or equivalent program management certification preferred.

COVID Policy: Prospective and/or new employees will be required to adhere with OBXtek’s vaccination policy. Full vaccination will be required and verified before the start of employment unless an accommodation request is approved.  Employees working onsite at a customer location must comply with customer vaccination requirements which may include any or all the following: social distancing, masks, mandatory statements regarding one's vaccination status and mandatory testing.

Headquartered in McLean, Virginia and founded in 2009, OBXtek is a fast-growing leader in the government contracting field. Our mission is Our People…Our Reputation. Our people are trained professionals who enhance our customers’ knowledge and innovation using technology, collaboration, and education.

We offer a robust suite of benefits including comprehensive medical, dental and vision plans, Flexible Spending Accounts, matching 401K, paid time off, tuition reimbursement plans and much more.

As a prime contractor for 93% of our current work, OBXtek pairs lessons learned across disciplines with industry standard quality practices such as CMMI-Dev Level III, ITIL, 6Sigma, PMI, and ISO. Our rapid growth has been recognized by INC500, the Washington Business Journal, and Washington Technology magazine.

OBXtek is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, gender identity, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation or any other classification protected by federal, state or local law.