Director of Program Excellence I

Northrop Grumman

90d • $217,000 - $325,900

About The Position

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 Advanced Weapons Business Unit (AWBU) is seeking a Director of Program Excellence 1 located in Northridge CA. As a member of the Advanced Weapons executive leadership team, the AW 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.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or higher degree in a related field
• 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 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 obtain a Secret Clearance
• Must be a US Citizen

Nice To Haves

• Experience as a member of a senior executive management team
• Strong execution track record as a PM on a large complex program
• Experience in startup or recovery situations that required review and enhancement of metrics, processes, ops tempo, and decision-making tools/products

Responsibilities

• 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
• Establish and lead the Advanced Weapons Program Management Council

Benefits

• Health insurance coverage
• Life and disability insurance
• Savings plan
• Company paid holidays
• Paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree