Senior Program Director

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available

CLEARANCE TYPE: 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.

Join Northrop Grumman on our continued mission to push the boundaries of possible across land, sea, air, space, and cyberspace. Enjoy a culture where your voice is valued and start contributing to our team of passionate professionals providing real-life solutions to our world’s biggest challenges. We take pride in creating purposeful work and allowing our employees to grow and achieve their goals every day by Defining Possible. With our competitive pay and comprehensive benefits, we have the right opportunities to fit your life and launch your career today.

Northrop Grumman Mission System’s Navigation, Targeting and Survivability Division has an immediate opening for a Senior Program Director position located at our Rolling Meadows, IL facility, requiring travel to other Northrop Grumman facilities, customer, and supplier sites as needed. This position reports directly to the Aircraft Survivability Business Unit Vice President and will be a full-time onsite position.

As the portfolio lead for the Survivability Production Programs Operating Unit, the director will be tasked with ensuring successful execution of the portfolio of both restricted and nonrestricted development programs within the Aircraft Survivability Business Unit.

In addition, the director will be responsible for the management and leadership of a cross-functional team that leads the various programs and pursuits in the portfolio. This is a leadership position with daily executive interactions internally and externally, and the successful candidate must display consistent impeccable judgment and embody Northrop Grumman leadership behaviors. The successful candidate should thrive in a fast-paced work environment with high expectations, significantly diverse assignments, and collaborative/team settings across all levels and geographically dispersed teams and customers, including executive leadership. Key skills needed include:

• Business Acumen:  The ability to apply knowledge, insights and understanding of business and financial concepts, tools and processes to the benefit of strategic and program decisions, actions, and performance. Develop and direct new business models and strategic partnerships.
• Issue & Problem Resolution:  The ability to identify and quickly address program impacts through a systematic, proactive, approach to issue and problem resolution that identifies, communicates, monitors, and promptly resolves conflicts across all levels of the program.
• Program Growth:  The ability to recognize and respond to customer needs proactively in order to develop additional awards and sales that support business growth objectives.  Develops new business and capture strategies.  Coordinate investments and makes strategic business decisions.
• Program Integration:  The ability to identify, orchestrate, coordinate and control the management activities and processes that integrate program interdependencies throughout their life cycle to achieve successful proposal, capture, and program completion.
• Resources:  The ability to plan for, identify, estimate, cost, acquire, schedule, and retire resources needed to satisfy program requirements within organizational constraints.  Demonstrates cross-cultural skills to retain, attract, grow and transform the organization across multiple functions to create a culture of innovation, growth and risk-taking.
• Customer intimacy: Consistently makes time to seek and incorporate input from customers and understand their expectations. Demonstrates commitment and energy to meet customer needs and develops key messaging for customer engagements. Builds strong relationships with strategic partners and key suppliers. Guides program team and support functions on