CIDO Business Strategy Lead

Northrop Grumman•New York, NY

1d•$146,300 - $219,500•Remote

About The Position

Northrop Grumman’s Corporate Sector Chief Information & Digital Office (CIDO) is seeking a Staff Business Process Analyst to serve as the CIDO Business Strategy Lead within the Strategy and Architecture portfolio in the Governance & Strategy organization. The role defines strategic direction, priorities, and business framing, ensuring business priorities, transformation direction, investment framing, and decision logic are established before architecture, operations, performance, and delivery execution move forward. Reporting to the Head of Strategy and Architecture, the role shapes strategic context, frames enterprise priorities, develops decision-ready options, and connects leadership intent to business outcomes, operating-model implications, and transformation sequencing. It is a peer to the enterprise technical and enterprise business architecture leads and partners closely with those leads and Ops & Performance Management while maintaining direct alignment to the Head of Strategy and Architecture. The position may be performed as a virtual telecommuting role. The employee must live within 90 miles of a major Northrop Grumman location for ad hoc onsite meetings. Travel is 10% of the time. Relocation assistance is not available. The candidate must be able to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government Secret security clearance as a condition of continued employment. The role supports executive decision-making through strategic analysis, briefing content, roadmap framing, and cross-functional prioritization. The salary range is $146,300 to $219,500. Depending on the position, employees may also be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus. Benefits include health insurance, life and disability insurance, a savings plan, company-paid holidays, and paid time off. The company also describes flexible work arrangements, learning opportunities, a 9/80 work schedule option, and a 401(k) matching program.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Business, Strategy, Finance, Information Systems, or a related field and 12 or more years of relevant experience; alternatively, a master’s degree and 10 or more years, or a PhD and 8 or more years.
Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government Secret security clearance as a condition of continued employment.
Demonstrated experience in business strategy, enterprise planning, IT/business strategic analysis, transformation planning, chief-of-staff, business management, or closely related roles.
Strong ability to frame business priorities, strategic options, operating-model implications, and transformation trade-offs for senior leaders.
Experience developing executive-ready decision materials, strategic roadmaps, briefing content, or enterprise planning artifacts.
Demonstrated ability to work across business and technical stakeholders and connect strategy to architecture, execution, and measurable outcomes.
Strong written and verbal communication skills, including facilitation, synthesis, and executive-level communication.
Experience leading enterprise or functional strategy development and execution in large matrixed organizations.
Strong executive presence and ability to turn ambiguity into structured decisions, options, and action paths.

Nice To Haves

Experience supporting IT/Digital strategy, governance, transformation, or planning functions in a large enterprise environment or regulated industry.
Experience in defense, aerospace, federal, or other regulated environments.
Experience working with enterprise architecture, operating-model design, modernization planning, or portfolio governance functions.
Experience shaping cross-functional priorities spanning business, technology, analytics, and performance-management stakeholders.
Experience producing board-, vice-president-, or executive-staff-level strategic materials.
Exposure to enterprise architecture.

Responsibilities

Serve as the CIDO Business Strategy lead within Strategy and Architecture.
Translate enterprise context, leadership intent, business drivers, and transformation goals into coherent strategy framing for the portfolio.
Develop strategic narratives, option analyses, and decision-ready materials clarifying priorities, trade-offs, sequencing, and expected outcomes.
Help define portfolio priorities, transformation themes, and business-value framing across architecture, operations, analytics, and AI-readiness efforts.
Partner with the Enterprise Technical Architecture Lead, Enterprise Business Architecture Lead, and Ops & Performance Management to align strategy, architecture direction, governance, and measurable execution outcomes.
Clarify how enterprise strategy choices affect the operating model, business capability priorities, investment focus, modernization timing, and leadership decision thresholds.
Support executive and stakeholder decision-making by framing strategic implications, business rationale, dependencies, risks, and organizational impacts.
Develop and maintain repeatable strategy artifacts, including strategic summaries, roadmap framing, issue papers, briefing content, and decision-support packages.
Identify misalignment among strategy, business priorities, architecture direction, and performance measures, and recommend corrective framing.
Represent the strategy lane in senior leadership discussions, planning forums, and transformation working sessions.