Principal Strategic Planner

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available

CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: No

CLEARANCE TYPE: None

TRAVEL: Yes, 25% 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 Aeronautics Systems has an opening for a Principal Strategic Planner to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals with our Strategy and Growth organization to support emerging programs. This role is located in El Segundo, CA, or Falls Church, VA.

The Principal Strategic Planner will collect, research, and analyze customer and competitor intelligence for Aeronautics capture opportunities – providing insight on customer buying behavior, competitor win strategies, and delivering targeted recommendations to capture, division, and sector leadership.

  

Key Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Provide strategic and tactical competitive insights to capture and campaign teams; primarily focused on Enterprise and Sector Priority Win pursuits

• Customer Intelligence: Acquisition approach, funding forecast, award behaviors, stakeholder analysis, evaluation criteria

• Competitor Intelligence: Strategy, leadership, technical solutions, execution approach, SWOT, shaping objectives

• Ad hoc projects as assigned, including various deep dive projects to support win themes and ghosting and inform business cases and competitive pricing

• Develop, organize, and lead teams to successfully execute workshops, strategy reviews, targeted analyses – including Customer/Competitor Black Hats, Consultant engagement and third-party studies, and technical assessments

• Refine or innovate new team processes to improve efficiency and analysis quality

• Ability to focus, (re)prioritize, and multitask to deliver on commitments

Basic Qualifications

• Must either have 4 years’ experience with a bachelor’s degree or 2 years’ experience with a master’s degree or 0 years’ experience with a PhD

• Strong working knowledge of defense aeronautics market, defense acquisition process, industry portfolios

• Experience contributing to competitive assessments or strategy projects

• Ability to obtain and maintain special program access within a reasonable period of time as determined by the needs of the business

• Must have the ability to obtain and maintain a DoD Secret clearance within a reasonable amount of time as determined by business needs

Preferred Qualifications

• Active DoD Secret or Top-Secret clearance and SAP eligibility

• Graduate degree in business or engineering

• Experience leading, executing, or contributing to a variety of competitive assessments or program/capture strategies on major aeronautics opportunities

• Working knowledge of priority captures and Business Acquisition Process

• Experience developing executive-level presentations and using data analytics in a creative and productive way

• Demonstrated ability to effectively collaborate with programs, business management, strategy, supply chain, engineering, and other functions

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Primary Level Salary Range: $103,600.00 - $155,400.00

The above salary range represents a general guideline; however, Northrop Grumman considers a number of factors when determining base salary offers such as the scope and responsibilities of the position and the candidate's experience, education, skills and current market conditions.

Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay. Annual bonuses are designed to reward individual contributions as well as allow employees to share in company results. Employees in Vice President or Director positions may be eligible for Long Term Incentives. In addition, Northrop Grumman provides a variety of benefits including health insurance coverage,