Senior Director of Program Excellence

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available

CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: Yes

CLEARANCE TYPE: Secret

TRAVEL: Yes, 50% of the Time

Description

At Northrop Grumman, our employees have incredible opportunities to work on revolutionary systems that impact people's lives around the world today, and for generations to come. Our pioneering and inventive spirit has enabled us to be at the forefront of many technological advancements in our nation's history - from the first flight across the Atlantic Ocean, to stealth bombers, to landing on the moon. We look for people who have bold new ideas, courage and a pioneering spirit to join forces to invent the future, and have fun along the way. Our culture thrives on intellectual curiosity, cognitive diversity and bringing your whole self to work — and we have an insatiable drive to do what others think is impossible. Our employees are not only part of history, they're making history.

Northrop Grumman, Mission Systems is looking for a Senior Director of Program Excellence to lead the Multidomain Sensing, Targeting & Survivability (MSTS) division program execution team. The position reports to the GM of MSTS and can be located in the Baltimore, MD area or Rolling Meadows, IL. The primary objectives will be the leadership of program management discipline and captures, and driving the division’s digital transformation forward. The individual will lead a team focused on continuous improvement of division program execution, serve as the division lead for achieving program execution results, driving adoption of agile tools and practices, and identifying and performing digital transformation projects. This individual will be the division point of contact to the enterprise Digital Transformation Office.

The individual is responsible for Program Management / Program Execution process, tools, innovation and leadership development across the division and in coordination with enterprise and sector frameworks. The individual will support the coordination and management of all phases of execution, from inception (proposal development) through completion (contract closeout).

Primary focus areas will include, but are not limited to:

• Lead independent reviews on programs across the division

• Awareness, education and implementation of internal processes for Program Management

• Oversee the agile transformation for the MSTS division

• Enable cross-functional Integrated Product Team (IPT) program teams

• Increased application of robust Integrated Master Schedules (IMS) across programs

• Awareness of, compliance to, and implementation of the One NG Earned Value Management (EVM) methodology

• Effectiveness of risk & opportunity (R&O) management practices across programs to include the identification of R&O, the quantification of R&O and the mitigation / realization of R&O, to include application of common tools across division programs

• Continuous improvement of internal reporting systems (i.e. IPRS) and associated metrics to provide key insights to management

• Ensuring proficiency on Contract Change Management across division programs

• Development and delivery of presentations to sector, division, and program stakeholders

• Understanding of execution strategies for a variety of proposals and contract types (FFP, CPFF)

• Support process and gate reviews of proposals and strategic business focus

• Advise teams on negotiation strategies and negotiation tactics

• Maintains strategy and roadmap for transitioning division to agile approaches in line with vision set by General Manager and in coordination with Digital Transformation Office.

• Maintains strategy and roadmap for participating in Digital Transformation pilots and projects, in coordination with Digital Transformation Office.

• Leads the efforts to digitize division DLT operations, with particular focus on high-value dashboards and automated data synthesis to ensure timely, transparent information that is a single source of truth, to enable local data analytics of sector performance drivers,  and to reduce manual, headquarters-driven data/information calls.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree and 12 (10 or more years with a Master's degree) or more years of related experience in program management, engineering, project management or related field

• Demonstrated experience supporting Department of Defense/War or Government contracts

• Familiarity and application of NG Program Management processes and tools on programs

• Experience leading the performance of tasks on schedule,