Sr. Director for Missile Defense and Navy Weapon System Research & Development

MTSI is searching for a highly skilled Sr. Director for Missile Defense and Navy Weapon System Research & Development based in our Huntsville AL, Dahlgren, VA, or Alexandria, VA locations. 

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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

For additional company information, please visit: www.mtsi-va.com

Responsibilities:

The AMD Senior Director for Missile Defense and Navy Weapon System Research & Development is an experienced growth and portfolio management executive responsible for providing senior leadership in the capture, development, integration, and execution of MTSI business opportunities in Missile Defense and Navy Weapon System Research and Development (R&D).  This senior leader partners with the AMD EVP and senior AMD and corporate leadership to create and implement integrated, capability-driven growth in the missile defense and Navy weapon system R&D markets. 

Responsibilities include:

• Identifying and capturing future growth opportunities in the Missile Defense and Navy Weapon System R&D markets including opportunities associated with the Missile Defense Agency (MDA), Army Aviation and Missile Center (AvMC), U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command (SMDC), Naval Surface Warfare Centers (Crane, Dahlgren, etc.), Navy PEO Integrated Weapon Systems (IWS), Navy Strategic Systems Program (SSP) and Conventional Prompt Strike (CPS), Naval Research Lab (NRL), Department of Energy Labs (LLNL, LANL, SNL), and Combatant Commands working integrated missile defense capabilities (ballistic, cruise, and hypersonic missile defense).
• Executing successful program development and ongoing expansion of current AMD missile defense and Navy weapon system R&D efforts.
• Providing technical leadership and contract management oversight for AMD engineers and analysts supporting missile defense and Navy weapon system R&D at MTSI facilities in Huntsville, AL; Colorado Springs, CO; Crane, IN; and Alexandria, VA.
• Helping define MTSI R&D laboratory infrastructure requirements and recommending differentiated capability enhancements/upgrades to foster continued contract expansion, new business wins, and increased MTSI multi-level security facility utilization.

Qualifications:

• Embraces MTSI culture and exhibits MTSI Core Values.
• 20 years’ experience in leadership roles in Missile Defense and Navy Weapon System R&D technologies and markets.
• Demonstrated understanding of Missile Defense and Navy Weapon System components to include sensors, command and control, fire control, interceptors, lethality technologies and foreign threats.
• Awareness of current industry capabilities in terms of modeling & simulation, digital engineering, software engineering, algorithm development, and lethality.
• Previous leadership role with significant profit and loss (>$25M) and/or overseeing an organization exceeding 200 staff members.
• Senior leader with a consistent track record of achieving significant business growth through personal leadership in the planning, development, integration, and sales of highly differentiated services and solutions.

REQUIRED SKILL SET

• Strong engineering and technical skills who has high credibility with senior decision makers in the missile defense and Navy weapon system R&D markets
• Outstanding communication skills, both oral and written as well as a history of presentation skills to clients, industry partners, and boards.
• Ability to open conversations and close deals / opportunities
• Track record of revenue growth and profit target achievement
• Demonstrable ability to work in fast-changing environments
• Extensive knowledge of strategic planning, business development, and customer relationships in the MDA and Navy sectors.
• 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 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.

Clearance

• US Citizenship required. Current Active TS Clearance is required. 
• SAP experience, TS/SCI clearance eligibility highly desired.

Education

Bachelor or MS degree in hard sciences (mathematics, physics, engineering, computer science) will be considered.

Travel

The position requires moderate travel (10%-20%) to customer and office locations across the United States

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