SDS Subcontract Management Team Director 1

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available

CLEARANCE TYPE: Secret

TRAVEL: Yes, 10% 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’s Defense Systems sector is looking for a Subcontract Management Team Director 1 to lead the Strategic Deterrent Systems division’s Subcontract Management Teams (SMT), located at the division headquarters in Roy, UT.  

As the division SMT Director, you will partner with the program executives, Global Supply Chain, Mission Assurance and other stakeholders, to lead a homeroom of SMT Leaders who shape subcontract strategy and manage subcontractor execution across a portfolio of strategic deterrent programs. 

You’ll report directly to the Division Engineering Vice President and focus on engineering and execution excellence, ensuring that our subcontractors not only meet, but exceed cost, schedule, and performance metrics. Additionally, as a functional homeroom director, you will have the ability to drive standardization in training, processes, and tools. 

Primary responsibilities are the management of cost, schedule, and technical performance of subcontractors and include, but are not limited to: 

• Cultivating subcontractor relationships and intimacy to develop further opportunities within the Global Supply Chain community 

• Supporting strategic sourcing planning, capture planning, and development of subcontract proposals and business plans 

• Leading and directing cross-functional SMTs to meet program cost, schedule and technical performance objectives 

• Measuring and reporting subcontract program performance 

• Delivering presentations to subcontractors, executive management and other program stakeholders 

• Participating in the negotiation of subcontracts, subcontract changes, specifications, operating budgets, schedule milestones, and key terms and conditions 

• Creation, review and finalization of the Subcontract Statements of Work (SSOW) 

• Identification, distribution, tracking, and completion of program requirements 

• Establishment and management of the program and subordinate baselines 

• Development and adherence to budget baselines utilizing Earned Value Management (EVM) or similar cost & schedule control methodologies and tools 

• Identifying, allocating and managing program resources, including workforce planning within SMTs 

• Ensuring SMTs understand and adhere to subcontract scope, and manage change through control board activities   

• Development and adherence to master plans and schedules 

• Conducting thorough risk & opportunity management practices including identification, mitigation and realization 

• Partnering with Global Supply Chain to shape make/buy plans, and procurement and subcontract strategies 

• Coordinating cross-functional as it pertains to supplier management, specifically with Operations, Quality Mission Excellence (QME), Procurement, and PMO IPT  

• Briefing Program and Executive management and Customer on the status and issues affecting Supplier performance and cost 

As a full-time employee of Northrop Grumman Defense Systems, you are eligible for our robust benefits package including:
- Medical, Dental & Vision coverage
- 401k
- Educational Assistance
- Life Insurance
- Employee Assistance Programs & Work/Life Solutions
- Paid Time Off
- Health & Wellness Resources
- Employee Discounts
 

This position’s standard work schedule is a 9/80. The 9/80 schedule allows employees who work a nine-hour day Monday through Thursday to take every other Friday off. This role may offer a competitive relocation assistance package.

You’ll Bring These Qualifications: 

• Bachelor’s Degree and 10 years’ experience supporting U.S. Government contracts and c