Director of Program Excellence I

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available

CLEARANCE TYPE: None

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’s Armament Systems Business Unit (ASBU) is seeking a Director of Program Excellence I located in Plymouth MN.

As a member of the Armament Systems executive leadership team, the AS Program Excellence Director is responsible for enhancing program performance by leveraging processes, tools, coaching and PM Development resources across the Business Unit. This position will require the selected candidate to span the program excellence arena from digging into complex program execution issues to help drive solutions through developing program excellence strategies applicable to a broad set of program types and complexities.  The position will also play a key role in program proposal strategy and will develop and support strategies to scale the business to enable program acceleration of the Business Unit Long Range Strategic Plan.   

Primary roles and responsibilities include:

• Transform and drive program execution rigor to enable sustainable profitable growth and consistently meet customer and company commitments

• Mitigate current and near-term programmatic risk while building long-term program excellence capability and culture.

• Develop world class program managers by investing in tools, processes, knowledge, and skill building enabling results driven decision making.

• Lead efforts to instill a culture of performance and program execution excellence throughout the Business Unit

• Operate as Independent oversight with implementation authority & process accountability.

• Partner with the Division Program Excellence team on developing and instilling best practices

• Work with programs leadership to develop proposal strategies that will lead to profitable and executable programs

• Work with executive and program leadership to develop and execute strategies to accelerate the scaling of our business across our factories, suppliers, and through organizational and staffing strategies

• Lead the Armament Systems Program Management Council

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s or higher degree in a related field and minimum of 10 years of program management experience (3 – 5) years in a formal management role

• Expertise in program execution, earned value management, change management, risk management, and stakeholder management

• Experience managing complex projects / programs across with different customers across multiple phases of the program lifecycle

• Experience briefing executives and managing expectations

• Demonstrated ability to operate in complex environment and challenging situations

• Willingness to travel up to 25% per month.

• Able to acquire a Secret Clearance

• Must be a US Citizen

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience as a member of a senior executive management team

• Strong execution track record as a PM on a large complex program

• Experience in start up or recovery situations that required review and enhancement of metrics, processes, ops tempo, and decision making tools/products

• Active Secret Clearance or higher

Salary Range: $207,400.00 - $311,000.00

The above salary range represents a general guideline; however, Northrop Grumman considers a number of factors when determining base salary offers such as the scope and responsibilities of the position and the candidate's experience, education, skills and current market conditions.

Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay. Annual bonuses are designed to reward individual contributions as well as allow employees to share in company results. Employees in Vice President or Director positions may be eligible for Long Term Incentives. In addition, Northrop Grumman provides a variety of benefits including health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, savings plan, Company paid holidays and paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business.

The application period for the job is estimated to be 20 days from the job posting date. However, this timeline may be shortened or extended depending on business needs and the availability of qualified candidates.

Northrop Grumman is an Equal Opportunity Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected class. For our complete EEO and pay transparency statement, please visit http://www.northropgrumman.com/EEO. U.S. Citizenship is required for all positions with a government clearance and certain other restricted positions.