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Establish ground rules and assumptions and ensure the baseline is supported by the technical and business teams responsible for execution.\nTranslate architecture into execution. Partner with Technical Architects and Engineering to translate solution architectures into development plans, work packages, milestones, deliverables, and integrated program schedules.\nSupport product strategy and reuse. Evaluate opportunities to leverage existing and in-development products and identify where new reusable capabilities may be required versus customer-specific development. Provide program-level insight to Product leadership to inform roadmap and investment decisions.\nDrive proposal development. Provide the programmatic and execution content required for customer proposals, including Statements of Work, schedules, cost estimates, risks, assumptions, staffing plans, and execution approaches.\nSupport contract definitization. Partner with Contracts and business leadership during customer negotiations to ensure scope, requirements, deliverables, schedule, assumptions, and contractual commitments are consistent with the planned execution baseline.\nLead Make/Buy and supplier planning. Coordinate Make/Buy trades with Product, Engineering, and Supply Chain and establish supplier scope, requirements, cost, schedule, and assumptions required to support the program baseline.\nOwn program readiness and transition. Ensure awarded programs transition into execution with a clear SOW, requirements baseline, budget, integrated schedule, risk register, supplier commitments, ground rules and assumptions, and Program Management Plan.\nSupport early execution. Remain engaged with the execution Program Manager and Engineering team through transition and early program milestones, including SRR, to resolve gaps between the proposed, contracted, and executable baselines.\nProvide program assurance. Identify and drive resolution of technical, cost, schedule, contractual, and execution risks before they become downstream program issues. Ensure commitments made during capture and proposal are understood, achievable, and appropriately baselined.\nIntegrate across functions. 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