Human Resources Director 1

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available

CLEARANCE TYPE: Top 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 Mission Systems is currently seeking a Director of Human Resources – Level 1 to join our HR team supporting both the Engineering & Sciences (E&S) and Emerging Capabilities Development (ECD) team.   

The selected candidate will be the Human Resources (HR) Director located on-site in Baltimore, MD and will be the primary strategic partner for the E&S and ECD organizations within Northrop Grumman’s Mission Systems sector.  The HR Director will lead a team of HR business partners who support over 11, 000 employees across four geographically dispersed business divisions.

We are seeking a proven human resources leader to provide thought leadership and demonstrated ability to coach and influence at the executive level.   The selected candidate will assist in the development and implementation of HR strategic priorities and will partner with executive leaders to build organizational capability to meet financial and strategic goals, including leading through change to drive cultural and people changes in support of the business strategy. The ideal candidate will be capable of supporting a large and complex aerospace & defense company in an ever-changing landscape and be able to lead others in a matrixed environment.

The selected candidate will be expected to develop and deploy a human capital & technical development strategy across the organizations.  The candidate must have strong relationship building skills and a proven track record of building collaborative partnerships to influence direction and drive change across complex organizations.  Responsibilities of this role include but are not limited to:  talent strategy and deployment; talent management and succession planning; change management; project management; leadership & technical development; staffing and talent acquisition; employee engagement; compensation oversight; and employee relations.

Key Leadership Traits:

• Unwavering ethics and values; trusted partner to leadership, peers and employees
• Strong team player; focused on organizational and team success
• Decisive and action oriented; acts with a thoughtful sense of urgency
• Innovative; regularly advocates and drives meaningful change & improvements
• Excellent business acumen
• Leverages HR processes and tools to accelerate business results
• Strong people leader, manager, collaborator and business partner
• Solution-oriented and comfortable using qualitative and quantitative data to inform recommendations and decisions

In this job, you will:

• Lead a team of HR professionals by providing guidance, flow-down, coaching and support to optimize their performance.
• Effectively communicate and partner with internal and external stakeholders to influence and guide our engineering and technical talent teams.
• Be responsible for creating innovative higher level talent strategies but also the tools and processes to put them into execution to produce business outcomes across a large functional homeroom.
• Partner with our CTO and early technology R&D teams to understand emerging technology trends and skills needed to win and perform work now and in the future in support of customer needs.
• Understand critical skills & proficiencies levels across the technical population to identify trends and inform development actions.
• Understand supply/demand needs of the business to inform external and internal talent deployment strategies.
• Leverage data insights and trends to inform decisions, identify business challenges and proactively partner with and influence leadership to strategize