Manager Programs 3 - DARC Program Manager

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available

CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: Yes

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 Space Superiority Division (SSD) is seeking a Program Manager for the DARC Site 1 program to direct all phases of a large development and deployment program.
 

As the selected DARC Site 1 Program Manager, you will provide the programmatic, technical and people leadership necessary to develop, integrate, and deliver complex radar capabilities to distributed operational sites. You will help manage and set organization objectives for multiple Integrated Product Teams (IPTs) that combine to form a multidisciplinary team of over 150 dedicated, diverse professionals consisting of NG and subcontractor personnel from multiple partners. Your leadership will be instrumental in ensuring NG delivers on our contractual commitments, provides the best OneNG solutions possible, advances our strategic objectives, and provides effective and engaged leadership to the DARC program. You are responsible for ensuring appropriate staffing, resources, processes, tools, training, etc. are provided to support successful program execution as well as proactively providing program direction to best leverage NG capabilities. You will report functionally to the DARC Portfolio Director. The DARC Portfolio is a part of the Resiliency Technology & Products Operating Unit (RTP OU) and the Emerging Capabilities & Sensing Business Unit (ECS BU). The DARC Portfolio is headquartered in Colorado Springs, Colorado and has a substantial presence at other Northrop Grumman facilities across the country and internationally.

Key responsibilities include:

• Manage the cost, schedule and technical performance of DARC projects across multiple simultaneous program phases (e.g., development through delivery and installation of fully integrated radar systems).

• Advance program and NG strategic objectives by building and maintaining trusted relationships with customers and other stakeholders and by engaging in internal and customer forums related to the program’s goals.

• Establish milestones, produce roadmaps, and monitor adherence to master plans and schedules.

• Ensure effective identification and management of issues, risks and opportunities. Drive issues and decisions to closure considering competing points of view, constraints, customer/stakeholder priorities and company strategic objectives.

• Leverage NG’s mission, architecture, and engineering expertise to provide forward-thinking solutions that conform to customer constraints (funding, capabilities of related systems, etc.).

• Build and sustain an effective, engaged, and integrated team in a complex, geographically dispersed, partner-rich, and dynamic environment.

• Direct large and small subcontractors and suppliers, driving towards alignment on common program objectives.

• Lead the preparation of proposals, business plans, proposal work statements and specifications, operating budgets and financial terms/conditions of contract.

• Approve proposals, ROMs and ECPs that fall within program signature authority. Lead approval coordination for new business efforts that require OU or higher-level sign-off.

• Participate and support our Contracts organization in the negotiation of contracts and contract changes. Ensure any ramifications to scope are fully understood and coordinated.

• Act as primary customer contact for program activities and lead program review sessions with customer and/or NG leadership to address cost, schedule, and technical performance.

• Effectively coordinate and collaborate with functional and P&L leadership across NGC to ensure required staffing, processes and infrastructure are available to efficiently execute the contract.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree and 10 years, or master’s degree and 8 years experience su