
Precision Guided Munitions Transition to Production Product Manager
Maple Grove, MNFull-time$150–254K/yrSeen 5 days agoSeen in employer's feed 5 days ago
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The Precision Guided Munitions Transition to Production Product Manager works with Manufacturing Test and Operations Quality to represent program-office ownership and interests across PGM products, components, projects, and programs. The role advances cost reduction, lean manufacturing, product strategies, and manufacturing flows while managing lifecycle risks, suppliers, stakeholders, and compliance. It also supports long-term business and supplier strategies and represents the company in supplier, customer, and sponsor meetings.
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Job Description
The Precision Guided Munitions (PGM) Transition to Production Product Manager works Manufacturing Test and Operations Quality to represent program office ownership and interests for PGM products, components, projects, and programs to include:
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Leading value and lean cost reductions for margin expansion
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Responsible for lean manufacturing processes
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Ensuring high pass for component builds
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Creating and advancing products and manufacturing flows to optimize for cost
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Development, support and continuous improvement of product strategies
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Managing and protecting BAE Systems intellectual property and IP strategy
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Contributing to Munitions product, program and product line campaigns
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Contributing to plans for managing subcontractors
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Effective risks and opportunity management
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Administrative and compliance oversight of BAE Systems and lifecycle management (LCM) policies and procedures IAW USG policies and procedures
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Continuously improving program performance including capturing, evaluating, and sharing best practices
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Meeting financial commitments
Responsibilities and day-to-day activities within this role include the following:
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Managing value engineering for cost reduction (DTUPC)
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Managing product obsolescence
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Negotiate with and manage customer and stakeholder expectations across the entirety of the product lifecycle
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Ensure program/project risks are identified and proactively managed by developing the risk management plan, leading initial risk identification and mitigation planning, and ensuring team is properly trained in risk management and participating in monthly risk reviews
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Identify direct and indirect threats and opportunities, and implement actions to mitigate threats and capture opportunities
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Assess and identify quality, design, materials, facilities, and workforce requirements required to reduce manufacturing risk
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Initiates make/buy and make/where strategies to support programs
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Support development of long-term supplier strategy, multi-year strategic plan for the business area, and BAE Systems PGM strategy, identifying and developing new business opportunities
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Represent the company at appropriate supplier, customer or sponsor meetings
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Proactively keep upper management informed regarding proposal status and any technical, cost, schedule, or administrative problems within assigned proposals
Required Education, Experience, & Skills
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Bachelor's degree in a technical discipline or business management and 10 years of related experience or equivalent experience
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Active Secret Security Clearance or the ability to obtain
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Experience in:
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Aerospace & Defense Engineering Development
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Engineering/Technical Program/Project Management
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Relevant Development/Agile Program Management or managing the startup of similarly complex, high dollar value, strategic programs for the Department of War (DoW)
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Leading complex Engineering Programs, Matrixed Teams, Program Lifecycle Reviews, and Financial reporting and analysis
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Leading Program Risk and Opportunity (R&O) management activities to include identification and development of risk mitigation plans, scope management, program/project plans specifying goals, staffing, scheduling, identification of risks, contingency plans, and allocation of available resources
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Knowledge of:
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Department of War (DoW) acquisition and process to transition to program of record
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Manufacturing/Production, Operational Excellence (OE), reducing AUPC through early implementation of DTUPC best practices
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Competitive Proposal Development, Capture Management, and Earned Value Management Systems (EVMS) within Firm Fixed Price Environment
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Scope Management and Cost Estimating including estimate to complete/estimate at completion (ETC/EAC), and Design to Unit Cost (DTUPC) and Standard Cost processes for components
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Program/Project Management methodologies, toolsets, process, and governance
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Ability to effectively manage program complexities and structuring activities in times of ambiguity; manage and influence with internal and external stakeholders; operate independently and proactively
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Customer focus and relationship building skills; strong communication skills, written and verbal; highly effective critical thinking skills
Preferred Education, Experience, & Skills
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Active Secret Security Clearance
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Graduate Degree
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PMP Certification or similar
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Experience in Lifecycle Management (LCM)
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Experience as Control Account Manager (CAM) and/or Integrated Product Team (IPT)
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Experience in Oracle or ERP
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Advanced Excel skills
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Lean Six Sigma or Blackbelt
Pay Information
Full-Time Salary Range: $149603 - $254317
Please note: This range is based on our market pay structures. However, individual salaries are determined by a variety of factors including, but not limited to: business considerations, local market conditions, and internal equity, as well as candidate qualifications, such as skills, education, and experience.
Employee Benefits: At BAE Systems, we support our employees in all aspects of their life, including their health and financial well-being. Regular employees scheduled to work 20 hours per week are offered: health, dental, and vision insurance; health savings accounts; a 401(k) savings plan; disability coverage; and life and accident insurance. We also have an employee assistance program, a legal plan, and other perks including discounts on things like home, auto, and pet insurance. Our leave programs include paid time off, paid holidays, as well as other types of leave, including paid parental, military, bereavement, and any applicable federal and state sick leave. Employees may participate in the company recognition program to receive monetary or non-monetary recognition awards. Other incentives may be available based on position level and/or job specifics.
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How this job compares
Set against the 9,789 open Product Management jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 27, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$150–254K/yr
- Minnesota median$126–206K/yr174 salary ranges
- US median$143–221K/yr7,896 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $202K, is 24% above the Minnesota median midpoint ($163K) — in the top quarter of Product Management salary ranges in Minnesota.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 201 open Product Management jobs in Minnesota and 9,789 across the US. 9% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Minnesota
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 10 years of experience — more than three in four Product Management postings that state a minimum ask for (median 7 years, across 8,274 postings).
- Education
- 3,315 of the 9,789 open Product Management jobs (34%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 27, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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