Director Programs 1

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available

CLEARANCE TYPE: Top Secret

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 Sector is seeking a Director 1 Program Manager within the Strike Division to lead a Survivability and Mission Engineering (SME) team on a restricted program.  This position may be located in Melbourne, FL or Palmdale, CA. This Director will lead a multi-function IPT collaborating with multiple internal technical and program management stakeholders and US Government teams to complete an engineering, manufacturing and development effort.

As the selected Director, you will be responsible for both cost, schedule and technical program execution and program-related business development and proposal activities. The primary focus of this role is leading a diverse team through a balanced execution of the design, development and test to close out our development effort. The selected candidate is responsible for closure of SME related technical requirements, within cost and schedule, while balancing program priorities and creating customer intimacy to support value creation strategies and actions. This position will have full exposure to the breadth of complexity found in portfolio management as it will navigate the program through concurrent program life cycle phases.

Key responsibilities include:

• Responsible for delivery of integrated financial results, to include Profit & Loss and program requirements and objectives
• Overall cost, schedule and technical accountability for multiple technologies and teams
• Responsible for the strategy and execution of multiple connected projects to deliver on Program objectives
• 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
• Advance program and NG strategic objectives by identifying and building advocacy for solutions in NG and customer forums
• Build and maintain trusted relationships with customers and other Enterprise stakeholders
• Approve proposals, estimates and engineering change proposals that fall within program signature authority. Lead approval coordination for new business efforts that require higher-level sign-off
• Act as primary customer contact for program activities and lead program review sessions with customer and/or NG leadership to address Profit & Loss and other program requirements and objectives
• Effectively coordinate and collaborate with functional and IPT leadership across NG to ensure required staffing, processes and infrastructure are available to efficiently execute the contract
• Balance program priorities for overall warfighter benefit

A successful candidate for this role will have:

• Demonstrated ability to lead multi-functional teams through development, production and test leading to a successful program closure
• Demonstrated ability to shape and execute new business efforts, including proposal execution
• Have excellent interpersonal skills, a collaborative management style, and an inherent drive to deliver on commitments
• Experience in Survivability, Operations analysis and Virtual Simulation

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.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in STEM