Senior Project Manager - Business Resiliency

Standard Job Description

We are seeking an experienced Senior Project Manager to help establish and mature an Enterprise Business Resiliency Operations capability focused on protecting mission-critical operations and strengthening the enterprise’s ability to anticipate, prepare for, respond to, and recover from operational disruption.

This role is central to advancing the enterprise’s wartime preparedness posture, requiring a leader who can apply military strategic planning principles and operational readiness disciplines to business continuity and enterprise resiliency in an evolving threat environment.

The successful candidate will be a builder, integrator, and execution leader who thrives in an emerging environment, creates structure from ambiguity, connects capabilities and organizations across the enterprise, and translates strategic vision into an executable resiliency framework. Ideal candidates will bring experience in military strategic planning, operational readiness, defense mobilization planning, or similar disciplines, with the ability to translate those principles into an Enterprise Business Resiliency framework.

The Senior Project Manager will serve as a key partner in developing the overarching operating model, governance, integrated roadmap, business rhythms, performance framework, and cross-functional integration necessary to establish an enduring enterprise resiliency capability.

The role will initially operate through a highly matrixed model, partnering with existing capability owners, functional leaders, Business Areas, and enterprise stakeholders to define how capabilities integrate and collectively support Enterprise Business Resiliency objectives.

Key Responsibilities

• Partner with the Director of Business Resiliency to translate the enterprise resiliency vision and strategy into an executable project roadmap

• Help establish the overarching operating model, governance structure, decision framework, roles and interfaces, business rhythms, and performance framework for Enterprise Business Resiliency

• Coordinate across existing enterprise capabilities and functional stakeholders to establish an integrated approach to resiliency planning, preparedness, response and recovery

• Develop and manage an integrated master plan encompassing capability development, organizational milestones, dependencies, risks, resources, and executive decision points

• Create repeatable frameworks, standards, playbooks, and processes that enable consistent resiliency execution across the enterprise

• Establish common standards, tiering definitions, activation criteria, escalation paths, decision trees, and response and recovery frameworks

• Define data, information, and decision-support requirements necessary to improve enterprise operational awareness and resiliency

• Identify capability gaps and develop prioritized recommendations for organizational, technology, data, staffing, and investment decisions.

• Lead scenario planning, tabletop exercises, prototyping, and war-gaming to validate governance, decision frameworks, and enterprise readiness

• Establish mechanisms to measure resiliency maturity, readiness, performance, and continuous improvement

This virtual position should be in close proximity to any domestic Lockheed Martin facility.

Oversees and manages the operational aspects of ongoing projects and serves as liaison between project management and planning, project team, and line management. Reviews status of projects and budgets; manages schedules and prepares status reports. Assesses project issues and develops resolutions to meet productivity, quality, and client-satisfaction goals and objectives. Develops mechanisms for monitoring project progress and for intervention and problem solving with project managers, line managers, and clients.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree with 10+ years of relevant professional experience, or equivalent combination of education and experience.

• Demonstrated experience leading large, complex programs or enterprise-level initiatives involving multiple organizations, functions, or stakeholder groups.

• Experience developing and implementing operating models, governance structures, integrated plans, processes, and/or performance management frameworks.

• Demonstrated ability to lead through a matrixed environment, influencing outcomes across organizations without direct authority over participating resources.

• Experience translating strategic objectives into executable plans, milestones, requirements, and measurable outcomes.

• Demonstrated experience identifying and managing cross-functional dependencies, risks, issues, and organizational interfaces.

• Experience facilitating senior-level working groups, decision forums, planning sessions, or executive reviews.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to develop and present complex information to senior and executive leadership.

• Demonstrated ability to operate effectively in an ambiguous, rapidly evolving environment and establish structure where processes or organizational constructs are still developing.

• Experience in business resiliency, continuity of operations, crisis management, operational readiness, emergency management, enterprise risk, or related disciplines.

• Military or government experience involving strategic planning, operational planning, readiness, mobilization, contingency planning, or command-and-control concepts.

• Experience developing or supporting scenario-based planning, tabletop exercises, simulations, or war-gaming.

Desired Skills

• Experience establishing enterprise governance, decision frameworks, escalation models, or operational business rhythms.

• Experience integrating data, analytics, visualization, or decision-support capabilities into operational planning and executive decision-making.

• Experience working within the aerospace, defense, national security, or other mission-critical environment.

• Familiarity with recognized resiliency, continuity, emergency management, or risk-management frameworks.

• Program/project management certification such as PMP, or relevant continuity/resiliency/emergency-management certifications.

Pay Information

GeoZone Definition: GeoZones are geographic groupings created by Lockheed Martin to align compensation ranges with regional labor markets and cost-of-labor differences across the United States. Locations are assigned a Geo Zone based on the primary work location of the role.

• Full-time salary range (GEOZONE 1): $161300.00 - $299500.00

• Includes metropolitan areas such as Sunnyvale CA; Pal Alto, CA; New York City metropolitan area; Newark, New Jersey; etc.

• Full-time salary range (GEOZONE 2): $145100.00 - $269500.00

• Includes metropolitan areas such as Denver, CO; King of Prussia, PA; Stratford, CT; Moorestown, NJ; etc.

• Full-time salary range (GEOZONE 3): $129000.00 - $239600.00

• Includes metropolitan areas such as Dallas–Fort Worth, TX; Orlando, FL; Grand Prairie, TX; Marietta, GA; etc.

• Full-time salary range (GEOZONE 4): $116100.00 - $215700.00

• Includes metropolitan areas such as Camden, AR; Lexington, KY; Lufkin, TX; etc.

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The salary range for this position is as listed on the requisition. Please note that the salary information listed is a general guideline only.

Lockheed Martin considers factors such as (but not limited to) scope and responsibilities of the position, candidate's work experience, education/ training, key skills as well as market(work location) and business considerations when extending an offer.

Benefits offered: Medical, Dental, Vision, Flexible work arrangements and schedules (e.g., 4x10), 401(k) match, Paid time off, Holidays, Parental Leave, EAP, Flexible Spending Accounts, Education Assistance, Life Insurance, Short-Term Disability, and Long-Term Disability.

• Annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation programs may be offered depending on the position. Payments under these annual programs are not guaranteed and can vary from year to year and are tied to a range of performance metrics.

• For (Washington state applicants only) Non-represented full-time employees: accrue at least 10 hours per month of Paid Time Off (PTO) to be used for incidental absences and other reasons; receive at least 90 hours for holidays. Represented full time employees accrue 6.67 hours of Vacation per month; accrue up to 52 hours of sick leave annually; receive at least 96 hours for holidays. PTO, Vacation, sick leave, and holiday hours are prorated based on start date during the calendar year.

Lockheed Martin is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified candidates will be considered without regard to legally protected characteristics.