SME Project Manager-DLA

Xenith Solutions is seeking a Subject Matter Expert Project Manager to lead support for the Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support Clothing and Textiles supply chain. This high-priority Key Personnel role oversees strategic planning, process improvement, analytics, JDA-enabled planning, and program execution supporting Warfighter readiness.

Why this role matters DLA Clothing and Textiles manages a portfolio of more than 50,000 items used to outfit service members, federal agencies, and partner nations. The organization must balance customer demand, industrial-base capacity, inventory, budgets, product transitions, system modernization, and service objectives. This role keeps the contractor team aligned and converts those priorities into well-managed initiatives and measurable results.

What You Will Do

• Oversee all contractor support across the PWS, including planning, organizing, staffing, directing, integrating, and controlling activities required to meet schedule and performance expectations
• Manage day-to-day operations, administrative activities, risks, assumptions, staffing issues, dependencies, and interpersonal conflicts
• Lead the management decision-making process and remain accountable for the duties and activities required for successful program and project delivery
• Coordinate strategic recommendations, senior-leadership briefings, special analyses, and supply-chain collaboration with DLA Clothing and Textiles stakeholders
• Guide demand-planning modernization, customer-relationship-management strategy, product lifecycle management, workload management, and performance tracking initiatives
• Support strategic inventory management, supply-planning alignment, sales and operations planning, cross-process optimization, systemic improvements, and user enablement
• Maintain project schedules in Microsoft Project and provide clear monthly reporting on work performed, milestones, significant actions, risks, and status
• Direct work involving JDA, EBS, DLA data and analytics environments, and related logistics processes

Required qualifications

• At least ten (10) years of IT or logistics project/program management experience, including EDI/XML experience and supervisory experience
• Experience with DoD logistics functions such as finance, supply, contract administration, transportation, or project management
• Experience using Microsoft Project
• JDA experience
• An active IT-II clearance or a favorably adjudicated National Agency Check with Local Agency Check, Credit Check, and Written Inquiries (NACLC) at proposal submission
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Common Access Card and satisfy applicable DLA IT-II privileged-access requirements

Preferred qualifications

• Eight or more years leading supply-chain, analytics, and process-transformation projects across multiple DLA Major Subordinate Commands or DLA Headquarters
• Eight or more years of leadership experience with DLA EBS, JDA, and DLA data and analytic systems
• Five or more years leading DLA Clothing and Textiles strategic initiatives relevant to the PWS
• Five or more years implementing and configuring JDA for DLA organizational clothing, individual equipment, and recruit-planning strategies
• Experience providing senior-leadership oversight of multiple DLA projects of similar scale and complexity