Senior Director, Air Force Special Programs Business Unit

Own Your Future. Modern Technology Solutions, Inc. (MTSI) is seeking a Senior Director for MTSI's Air Force Special Programs Business Unit. CONUS location required with a proximity to MTSI centers of gravity desired (National Capitol Region or Dayton, Ohio). Frequent travel to the National Capital Region and other business unit customer and performance locations will be expected.

Why is MTSI known as a Great Place to Work?

• Interesting Work: Our co-workers support some of the most important and critical programs to our national defense and security.
• Values: Our first core value is that employees come first. We challenge our co-workers to provide the highest level of support and service, and reward them with some of the best benefits in the industry.
• 100% Employee Ownership: we have a stake in each other's success, and the success of our customers. It's also nice to know what's going on across the company; we have company wide town-hall meetings three times a year.
• Great Benefits - Most Full-Time Staff Are Eligible for:
  • Starting PTO accrual of 20 days PTO/year + 10 holidays/year
  • Flexible schedules
  • 6% 401k match with immediate vesting
  • Semi-annual bonus eligibility (July and December)
  • Company funded Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) - a separate qualified retirement account
  • Up to $10,000 in annual tuition reimbursement
  • Other company funded benefits, like life and disability insurance
  • Optional zero deductible Blue Cross/Blue Shield health insurance plan
• Track Record of Success: We have grown every year since our founding in 1993

Modern Technology Solutions, Inc. (MTSI) is a 100% employee-owned engineering services and solutions company that provides high-demand technical expertise in Digital Transformation, Modeling and Simulation, Rapid Capability Development, Test and Evaluation, Artificial Intelligence, Autonomy, Cybersecurity and Mission Assurance.

MTSI delivers capabilities to solve problems of global importance. Founded in 1993, MTSI today has employees at over 20 offices and field sites worldwide.

For more information about MTSI, please visit www.mtsi-va.com .

Responsibilities:

The Senior Director for MTSI's Air Force Special Programs Business Unit must possess a willingness and capacity to understand the totality of MTSI's business interests and capabilities and collaboratively realize opportunities for synergy across the Division and enterprise.

The Senior Director must be capable of leading a business unit dispersed across multiple locations, providing a diverse portfolio of services (e.g., cybersecurity, systems engineering, technology transition, test & evaluation, program management, electronic warfare, and special access program expertise), to multiple Department of Defense (DoD) and commercial customers.

Essential job experience and functions will include but not be limited to:

• Possess a broad expertise across the DoD and Intelligence Community (IC) with a detailed understanding of special programs and cybersecurity organizations providing acquisition program management, systems engineering, and technology transition, including special access program (SAP) expertise, and have experience building and leading government or industry teams.
• Responsible for providing technical direction and oversight to high-performing teams of contractor personnel, both on government sites and in remote locations.
• Initiate, grow, maintain, and strengthen customer relationships while effectively managing a portfolio of multiple projects for continued business unit growth.
• Provide tactical and strategic direction to all members of the business unit while communicating a vision for continued success and growth within the MTSI framework of core competencies and differentiated skill areas.
• Uphold and instill the highest of moral and ethical standards of conduct throughout the workforce, living by and fostering MTSI's core values.
• Have a passion for developing and nurturing the workforce, providing coaching and mentoring at all levels of the organization.
• Identify new customer targets for business development, initiate capture efforts within the MTSI business development/program development framework, build fully resourced execution plans, and initiate/participate in proposal activities to protect current customer base and further MTSI growth.
• Work collaboratively across all DSD business units, headquarters and infrastructure organizations, and across all 3 MTSI operational divisions, building alliances and relationships to not only grow the Air Force Special Programs Business Unit, but MTSI overall.
• Have excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Oversee all contract project managers in the business unit to ensure winning profit and loss manag ement.

Qualifications:

• 20+ years' experience across the DoD, IC and/or industry in leading, executing, and growing (1) efforts advancing Air Force cybersecurity, systems engineering, acquisition program management, technology transition, electronic warfare, and (2) highly specialized and classified efforts for major DoD and IC systems and technologies.
• A strategic thinker with the vision and ability to lead new business development efforts to achieve division growth objectives for the business unit. Demonstrated history of revenue growth and profit target achievement.
• Ability to lead a 100+ person organization and attain $30M-$50M in growth, with a demonstrated track record of profit and loss success.
• A demonstrated ability to represent and articulate MTSI's core values, including a history of excellent ethical business conduct.
• A well-organized and self-directed individual who is a team player and has a track record of effective internal and external collaboration and team building.
• An individual with a demonstrated passion for developing future MTSI leaders to include new supervisors, project managers, and program managers who can, in time, compete for MTSI senior leadership positions.
• Ability to provide strategic guidance for existing and prospective large IDIQ contracts with projects/task orders supporting multiple customers as well as managing multiple contracts in subcontractor capacities.
• A recognized and respected expert within the cybersecurity, systems engineering, program management support, research & development, lifecycle acquisition & sustainment, or acquisition community with a strong reputation with key business unit customers - Air Force Special Programs (SAF/AQL), Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI/PJ), Weapon System Cybersecurity, Transition Partners, Defense Department, HQ USAF, COCOM and MAJCOM R&D or engineering directorates.
• Ability to maintain and perform technical program billable work (approximately 25%, dependent on ability to develop and win new business).
• Excellent communication and leadership skills with a proven ability to interface internally and externally at executive levels, and ability to gain support and buy-in from all levels of leadership.

REQUIRED SKILL SET

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Demonstrable ability to work in fast-changing environments.
• Expert capture manager and proposal writer/reviewer with track record of delivering high proposal win rates as P&L leader.
• Highly motivated, organized and possessing the ability to multi-task.
• Customer-oriented focus.
• Ability to build, motivate and retain a strong team of performers.
• Professional and positive approach, self-motivated, team player, creative with the ability to work on own initiative.
• Exceptional interpersonal skills to establish and maintain effective relationships with clients, teammates, and the internal team.

LEADERSHIP CHARACTERISTICS

Acting with Honor and Character

• Must be a person of high character; is consistent and acts in line with a clear and visible set of our core values and beliefs; deals and talks straight; walks his/her talk; is direct and truthful but at the same time can keep confidences. 100% alignment with company core values.

Understanding the Business

• Knows the business and the mission-critical technical and functional skills needed to do the job; understands various types of business propositions and understands how businesses operate in general; learns new methods and technologies easily.

Getting Work Done Through Others

• Manages people well; gets the most and best out of the people he/she has; sets and communicates guiding goals; measures accomplishments, holds people accountable, and gives useful feedback; delegates and develops; keeps people informed; provides coaching for today and for the future.

Focusing on the Bottom Line

• Attacks everything with drive and energy with an eye on the bottom line; not afraid to initiate action based on informed intuition and past experiences before all the facts are known; drives to finish everything he/she starts.

Communicating Effectively

• Writes and presents effectively; adjusts to fit the audience and the message; strongly gets a message across.

Relating Skills

• Warm, friendly, and interpersonally agile; easy to approach and talk to; relates well to all kinds of people; makes a pleasant first impression and builds solid relationships.

Low Ego

• Puts needs of the business ahead of him/herself. Operates in a transparent fashion without a personal agenda. Possesses a well-developed sense of humor and listens first.

Self-starter

• Able to challenge the status-quo sensitively and constructively. Intellectually agile, self-confident, and highly articulate.

Strong Intellect

• Bright individual, with ability to combine analytical reasoning, creativity, and judgment. Quick study, able to handle complex matters, with multiple initiatives going on simultaneously. Able to deal effectively with strategic issues, as well as tactical operational details.

EDUCATION REQUIRED:

• Bachelor's degree in a technical discipline
• Advanced degree (MBA or related field) is preferred.

SECURITY CLEARANCE:

• Active Secret clearance is required
• SAP experience, TS/SCI clearance eligibility highly desired
• US. citizenship is required for this position.

LOCATION:

Remote or on-site position. CONUS required with a proximity to MTSI centers of gravity desired (National Capitol Region or Dayton, Ohio). Frequent travel to the National Capital Region and other business unit customer and performance locations will be expected.

TRAVEL:

The position requires moderate travel (25%-35%) to customer and office locations across the United States

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