Manager Programs 2
About The Position
Northrop Grumman Mission Systems is hiring a Manager Programs 2 for the Multidomain Sensing, Targeting, and Survivability Division’s Amherst Systems Operating Unit in Buffalo, New York. Amherst Systems develops and delivers threat simulation systems used to test and train electronic warfare systems worldwide. Reporting to an Amherst Systems customer portfolio lead, the Program Manager is responsible for cost, schedule, technical, and contractual performance across one or more complex engineering development, production, lab infrastructure, logistics, and sustainment activities. The role integrates evolving hardware and software baselines, multiple contract vehicles, and interdependent development and production programs. The manager establishes executable plans, manages cross-program dependencies and risks, and ensures engineering change, lab readiness, and logistics services support customer and business commitments.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree and at least 8 years of related professional or military experience, or a master’s degree and at least 6 years of related professional or military experience; alternatively, at least 12 years of relevant experience in lieu of a degree.
- Experience leading complex development, engineering services, production, logistics, sustainment, or other technically complex programs, with direct ownership of cost, schedule, and technical requirements.
- Experience working in a cross-functional execution environment.
- Experience managing programs using financial management and reporting tools, including Earned Value Management and Risk & Opportunity Management.
- Experience managing customer-facing execution.
- Ability to obtain and maintain a Secret-level government clearance.
Nice To Haves
- Experience managing complex systems through development, production, fielding, and sustainment.
- Experience managing fixed-price and cost-type contracts and applying programmatic and contractual discipline amid evolving requirements.
- Experience integrating hardware and software development across multiple contracts or organizational boundaries.
- Experience planning and executing laboratory, integration, test, or other technical infrastructure.
- Program leadership experience using an Integrated Product Team (IPT) execution framework.
- Experience with logistics, sustainment, and lifecycle support.
- Experience leading large-scale proposal development and contract change efforts.
- Experience leading complex programs with multifaceted scope, including production, fielding, and sustainment.
- Active Secret-level government clearance.
Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end execution of complex programs.
- Manage dependencies across programs.
- Build customer relationships through transparency, disciplined execution, and clear communication about risks, dependencies, and tradeoffs.
- Provide senior leadership in requirements definition, proposal development, contract negotiations, and change management.
- Establish programmatic control of engineering changes, assessing technical, cost, schedule, contractual, and downstream production impacts before commitments are made.
- Maintain awareness of execution across programs, remove barriers, resolve cross-program conflicts, and drive closure of critical issues.
- Forecast and achieve portfolio financial objectives while maintaining contractual scope discipline.
- Prepare and present briefings to senior internal and external stakeholders.
- Monitor program health across functions and proactively address barriers before they affect customer and business commitments.
- Promote a culture focused on outcomes, execution discipline, open communication, cross-functional alignment, accountability, and continuous improvement.
- Challenge requirements or commitments that create unacceptable program, technical, or business risk, while respecting organizational and contractual boundaries.
- Make timely, risk-informed decisions using facts and sound judgment when information is incomplete.
- Build customer confidence through transparency and consistent execution.
- Address difficult issues directly and professionally.
Benefits
- Health plan and health insurance coverage
- Savings plan
- Paid time off, including vacation and personal business
- Company-paid holidays
- Education assistance
- Training and development
- 9/80 work schedule where available
- Life and disability insurance
- Potential eligibility for overtime, shift differential, and discretionary bonus, depending on position
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
