Principal Supply Chain Planning Specialist

Northrop Grumman•Linthicum Heights, MD

3d•$89,900 - $134,900•Onsite

About The Position

Northrop Grumman Mission Systems has an opening for a Principal Supply Chain Planning Specialist to join our team of qualified and diverse individuals in our Linthicum, MD location supporting the Maritime Electronic & Information Warfare (MEIW) Operating Unit under the Land & Maritime Sensors (LMS) Business Unit. We are looking for a data-driven Planning Specialist supporting the Global Supply Chain (GSC) organization to coordinate and execute assigned tasks within established constraints, while also being flexible to ever evolving program requirements. This is an incredible opportunity for an individual to work hand-in-hand with Program Managers, Contracts/Subcontracts, Operations, Business Management, Quality and Engineering! The selected individual should thrive in a fast-paced work environment with high expectations, significantly diverse assignments, collaborative team settings across all levels and perform with limited management oversight.

Requirements

Bachelors degree and a minimum of 5 years experience in Supply Chain, Procurement, and/or Program GSC experience; Masters degree and a minimum of 3 years experience in Supply Chain, Procurement, and/or Program GSC experience
Experience working in SAP
Experience managing suppliers
Ability to travel 25% of the time
U.S. Citizenship
Ability to obtain and maintain a secret Clearance

Nice To Haves

ASCM/APICS Supply Chain Certification
Six Sigma or Lean certifications
Previous Proposal experience
Previous CAM experience
PMP trained or certified
Experience with program management, manufacturing, or quality assurance.
Current active DOD Secret Clearance

Responsibilities

Develop supply chain strategy and leads activities for GSC in all phases of the Northrop Grumman Business Acquisition Process (BAP), working with program team members from requirements establishment through final material deliveries
Responsible for the assessment of supply resources; aggregates and prioritizes demand requirements; plans inventory, distribution requirements, production, material and rough-cut capacity for all products
Contribute to the management of GSC scope for multifaceted program(s), proposal through close-out; coordinates interdepartmental activity, facilitates internal/external team communication, coordinates with Suppliers, and integrates efforts across all GSC functions
Support supply chain execution and is accountable for horizontal and vertical integration, resource planning, material cost, forecasting, schedule performance, risk/opportunity and issue management, supplier performance, and issue resolution
Analyze and aggregate supply / demand requirements
Analyze purchase material supply/demand position using Material Requirements Planning (MRP) tools.
Plan inventory levels based on dependent and independent Bill-of-Materials (BOM) requirements
Create/reduce supply requirements based on inventory adjustments
Participate in long-term capacity and resource planning to ensure proper scheduling of new product line phase-ins as well as existing product line phase-outs.
Create/release requisitions
Receive/review requirements for non-standard parts
Analyze lead times and identifies critical path procurements
Regularly brief the GSC Program Management team and program leadership on GSC activity status and issues affecting program performance: Cost, risks and opportunities, and schedule
Perform Control Account Management (CAM) duties in support of assigned programs that includes contributing to and reviewing Cost/Schedule actuals against plan, contribute to material requirements baselining, and working with Business Management stakeholders to provide variance analysis and get-well plans
Serve as liaison between Receiving/Inspection teams and GSC Planning to address material deliveries that cannot be fully processed due to missing documents, POCs, etc.