F-35 Proposal Manager Project Management 3

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available

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 F-35 Proposal Manager Project Management 3 to join our team of qualified and diverse individuals within our F-35 Business Unit (BU). This leadership role is located onsite in Redondo Beach, California.

We offer flexible work arrangements, 9/80 work schedule with every other Friday off, phenomenal learning opportunities, exposure to a wide variety of projects and customers, and a very friendly team environment. We are looking for self-motivated, proactive, and goal-oriented people to help us grow our services and become even better at what we do.

Our Leaders at Northrop Grumman live our values daily and encourage our teams to do the same. We do the right thing: upholding the highest ethical standards and facilitating a safe and respectful environment that attracts, retains, and inspires a diverse and engaged team. We do what we promise: holding yourself and others accountable to meet predictable and balanced results. We commit to shared success: operating as OneNG and removing barriers for our teams. Finally, We pioneer: setting a vision that shapes the future and inspires others. 

As a Manager Project Management 3, you will be responsible for all F-35 Proposal submittals from receipt of request to submittal to the customer, you will apply proven proposal planning and execution strategies and processes to lead teams across the F-35 BU to develop successful, compliant, integrated, compelling, and on time proposal submissions. This role will report directly through the Program Office to the Program Change & Execution Director. The proposals you will lead include major long-term Production follow-on efforts, Support Equipment follow-on and growth efforts, Development, Field Support Services, Major A/B Change Requests and all other F-35 proposals. Candidates for this position will demonstrate a broad skill set that is balanced across leadership, collaboration, innovation, communication, project management, stakeholder management, change management, risk management, and proposal-based capabilities.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Manage a direct team of proposal leads as well as a matrix team of Contracts, Pricing & Estimating, Master Planning Integration, Air Systems Integration, Global Supply Chain, Production Operations, Engineering, and Mission Assurance in support of all four Operating Units (OUs) across the F-35 BU

• Develop efficient and effective proposal preparation and development plans in response to complex solicitations from the external customer, Lockheed Martin Aeronautics

• Lead collaborative proposal kick-offs with relevant program and functional stakeholders to ensure communication of proposal strategy, requirements and schedule

• Manage engaged teams to develop, review, and submit proposals that effectively represent our strategy, baseline and requirements

• Deploy support functions in accordance with program priorities and objectives to provide timely inputs for complete and comprehensive proposal estimates, schedules and SOW integrated into proposal volumes

• Coordinate with Program Management and all functions on proposal issues and drive proposal and estimating task completions to closure in support of program milestones

• Provide clear direction on schedule requirements and changes of all proposals

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree and 8 years of related experience as defined below OR a Masters degree and 6 years of related experience as defined below

• Related experience includes professional and/or military experience to include a backg