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Plays a key role in tactical business planning, identifying new product lines and services to enhance program relevance. Manages the efficient use of resources, reviews contracts and contractor performance. Guides program offerings from introduction to obsolescence, adjusting plans to align with industry and organizational requirements. Oversees day-to-day operations, allocates resources strategically, and contributes to the achievement of the Consortium's, SAE ITC's, and SAE International's goals. Leads recruitment efforts, reviews usage data, and maintains customer relationships. Engages in external activities to promote program offerings. Manages marketing and communications strategies and conducts user-experience research for product and service development.ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONSResponsible for revenue and expense budgets for a program and related products and services under areas of responsibility. Revenues and/or expenses comprise important segment of program revenue stream or expenses.\n\nContributes to fiscal management and strategic planning by developing and annually updating short- and long-term forecasts of the program, including business and financial projections.\n\nParticipates in tactical business planning process. Contributes to the tactical planning process through the identification of new product lines and/or services that expand program's relevance to users and customers, with an emphasis on new issues and solutions. Manages tactical phases to achieve annual business plans that meet organization-wide objectives for responsible products and services. Adjusts program plans addressing products and services to align with industry and organizational requirements and best practices.\n\nManages the efficient and effective use of volunteers, contractors/ vendors and consultants. Review and negotiate contracts, as applicable. Review contractor performance and escalate shortcomings.\n\nManages and contributes to program and department product and service offerings from introduction through obsolescence and evaluates new technologies. Manages product and service development. Adjusts program and department product and service plans to align with strategy.\n\nOversees day-to-day operations of program or area of responsibility. Manages how, where and when approved staff, budget and resources are allocated across program, product and service lines to ensure successful results and attainment of departments objectives.\n\nContribute to the achievement of the Consortium's, SAE ITC's, and SAE International's goals. Additional special projects as assigned.\n\nRecruitment of potential members and sponsors and promotion of membership and sponsorship opportunities. Reviews program as well as product and service usage, and satisfaction data and maintains an ongoing dialog with customers and internal stakeholders, particularly sales & responsible director, on trends, risks and opportunities. Maintains key customer and other stakeholder relationships at senior manager levels. Spends time on external activities with customers and managers in industry and government to promote program related products and services. Communications include running meetings, attending forums and conferences and issuing regular correspondence at senior levels. Manages marketing and communications strategies and plans. Defines user-experience research to identify obstacles, improve ease-of-use, customer satisfaction and inform future product and service development.\n\nMINIMUM REQUIREMENTS\n\n8 years’ experience in technical engineering, project management, or business management positions, or combination.\n\nBachelor’s degree in engineering, quality, science, or business management.\n\nContributes to fiscal management and strategic planning by developing and annually updating short- and long-term forecasts of the program, including business and financial projections.\n\nTechnical/engineering expertise with experience in the areas of responsibility for position.\n\nStrong interpersonal and communications skills along with excellent analytical, writing and editing and presentation skills.\n\nAbility to organize effectively, carry out independent action, work on simultaneous assignments, and perform functions of a confidential manner.\n\nStrong project management skills and proficient with planning software and tools.\n\nGlobal and cultural sensitivities.\n\nAttention to detail.\n\nStrong team development, collaboration and problem-solving skills.\n\nUnderstanding of trade association operations.\n\nStrong leadership skills developing and achieving organizational long- and short-range business plans and goals.\n\nAbility to work with high-level executives, industry (commercial, government, military, academic) leaders.\n\nPREFERRED QUALIFICATIONSMaster’s Degree in engineering, science, quality, finance, or business management.\nStrong computer skills including MS Office and typical office application software; Knowledge of software and database systems.\n\nWORKING CONDITIONS AND PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS\nStandard business hours with flexibility for global meetings.\n\nRemote office with reliable, secure internet connection and proper ergonomic setup.\n\nFrequent virtual meetings; occasional travel (up to 30%) for technical conferences or committee sessions.\n\nMust maintain a confidential and secure workspace and comply with company data security policies.\n\n#ITCABOUT THE ORGANIZATIONSAE Industry Technologies Consortia® (SAE ITC) enables organizations to define and pilot best practices. SAE ITC industry stakeholders are able to work together to effectively solve common problems, achieve mutual benefit for industry, and create business value.\nThe Performance Review Institute® (PRI) is the world leader in facilitating collaborative supply chain oversight programs, quality management systems approvals, and professional development in industries where safety and quality are shared values.\nSAE International® (SAEI) is a global organization serving the mobility sector, predominantly in the aerospace, automotive and commercial-vehicle industries, fostering innovation, and enabling engineering professionals. Since 1905, SAE has harnessed the collective wisdom of engineers around the world to create industry-enabling standards. Likewise, SAE members have advanced their knowledge and understanding of mobility engineering through our information resources, professional development, and networking.\nFullsight is a shared services group working across three affiliate organizations, SAE ITC, SAE International, and Performance Review Institute (PRI), uniformly delivering HR, IT, Legal, Customer Success, Finance, and Procurement services, which enables us to distribute resources across all parts of our businesses.\nEEO CLAUSEFullsight provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.\nThis policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.\nOriginally posted on Himalayas","description_format":"text","description_chars":7720,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":8,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Professional development"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":[],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-02T06:08:55Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":23,"band":"cold","label":"Long shot","p_open":0.6,"p_active":0.709,"p_room":0.55,"age_days":35,"expected_fill_days":29,"reasons":["seen:35","win:tail"],"computed_at":"2026-11-06T05:58:05Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/sae-senior-program-operations-manager","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/sae-senior-program-operations-manager.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-07T05:18:32Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":12874,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-08T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":65151},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=65151"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fsae-senior-program-operations-manager"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fsae-senior-program-operations-manager"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fsae-senior-program-operations-manager"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/sae-senior-program-operations-manager\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fsae-senior-program-operations-manager"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":1666308}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"sae.org","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":1666308},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. 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