Manager Programs 3

Northrop Grumman • Buffalo, NY

1d • $175,500 - $263,300

About The Position

Northrop Grumman Mission Systems is seeking a Senior Program Manager for the Multidomain Sensing, Targeting, and Survivability Division’s Amherst Systems Operating Unit in Buffalo, New York. Amherst Systems develops and delivers realistic threat simulation systems for testing and training electronic warfare systems worldwide. The role reports directly to Amherst Systems’ site leadership and is responsible for cost, schedule, technical, and contractual performance across a complex portfolio spanning engineering development, production, laboratory infrastructure, logistics, and sustainment.

The Senior Program Manager integrates evolving hardware and software baselines, multiple contract vehicles, and interdependent development and production programs. The position establishes executable plans, manages cross-program dependencies and risk, and ensures engineering change, laboratory readiness, and logistics services support customer and business commitments. The role also leads customer engagement, requirements and proposal work, contract negotiations and change management, financial performance, and executive communications, while promoting disciplined execution and accountability.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree and at least 8 years of program management leadership experience; or a master’s degree and at least 6 years of program management leadership experience; or 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 operating 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)-focused 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 a complex portfolio of programs.
• Manage dependencies across other portfolios.
• Build customer relationships through transparency, disciplined execution, and clear communication of risks, dependencies, and tradeoffs.
• Lead 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 subordinate programs; remove barriers, resolve cross-program conflicts, and drive closure of critical issues.
• Forecast and achieve portfolio financial performance objectives while maintaining contractual scope discipline.
• Prepare and present executive-level briefings to internal and external stakeholders.
• Monitor program health across functions and proactively address barriers before they affect customer and business commitments.
• Promote outcomes-focused execution, open communication, cross-functional alignment, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Establish clear decision rights within organizational and contractual boundaries and challenge requirements or commitments that pose unacceptable risk.
• 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 for vacation and/or personal business.
• Education assistance.
• Training and development.
• 9/80 work schedule where available.
• Life and disability insurance.
• Company-paid holidays.
• Potential eligibility for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus, depending on the position.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior