Program Manager 3

Northrop Grumman • Dulles, VA

1d • $193,000 - $289,600

About The Position

Northrop Grumman’s Space Sector is seeking a Program Manager 3 (Senior Manager) for the Space Superiority Division’s Rapid Innovation Office. The role leads large, multidisciplinary teams through shaping, capture, architecture, design, integration, testing, and fielding of challenging counterspace mission capabilities. It contributes to shaping the nation’s future space warfighting architecture and is accountable for delivering contractual requirements on cost and schedule, meeting technical requirements, and building customer relationships that support value creation.

The Program Manager guides programs through their full life cycle, from customer shaping and proposal development through startup, execution, and contract closeout. The role manages cost, schedule, and technical performance; develops organizational plans and business opportunities; directs integrated teams and suppliers; and oversees requirements, program baselines, budgets, schedules, risks, and contractual changes. The position requires a current Top Secret/SCI clearance, the ability to obtain additional Special Accesses, and travel of up to 20% of the month.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree and 10+ years of experience, or master’s degree and 8+ years of experience, supporting U.S. Government contracts and customers and/or program management in other industries.
• Currently hold and be able to maintain a Top Secret/SCI clearance at the time of application, and be able to gain additional Special Accesses.
• Eight years of experience leading task performance on schedule, at cost, and to requirements as a project lead, integrated program team member, or cost account manager.
• Eight years of demonstrated success leading high-performance teams and/or organizations toward a common goal.
• Ability to travel up to 20% of the month.
• Business acumen: ability to apply business and financial knowledge, insights, tools, and processes to program decisions, actions, and performance.
• Communications: ability to manage communications with assigned staff and stakeholders through organized processes that ensure program information is defined, collected, shared, understood, stored, and retrieved effectively.
• Issue and problem resolution: ability to proactively identify and address program impacts and resolve conflicts across program levels.
• Program integration: ability to coordinate and control management activities and processes that integrate program interdependencies throughout the life cycle.
• Risk and opportunity: experience applying an organized, analytical, forward-looking approach to uncertainty, identifying risks and opportunities, and determining handling plans.

Nice To Haves

• Experience leading teams of at least 40 people and managing contract scope in excess of $50 million.
• Undergraduate and/or graduate technical degree in science, math, or engineering from a nationally accredited institution.
• Experience working on space system programs, such as satellites, space-to-ground communications, command and control, or space vehicle operations.
• Experience with offensive and/or defensive counterspace architectures, missions, technologies, or customers.
• Capture management: insight into customer technical, financial, political, and cultural considerations, and ability to shape expectations with a solution that meets customer needs and benefits the company.
• Technical performance: ability to establish a technical performance baseline and monitor key program technical performance measures and status.
• Requirements: ability to define, document, analyze, trace, prioritize, and confirm requirements throughout the program life cycle.
• Planning, scheduling, and earned value: ability to develop, integrate, execute, direct, and control program plans and cost and schedule baselines that meet contractual requirements and stakeholder expectations.
• Customer intimacy: seeks and incorporates customer input, understands expectations, demonstrates commitment to customer needs, and builds strong relationships with strategic partners and key suppliers.

Responsibilities

• Develop and communicate an organizational vision and roadmap with Space Superiority Division leadership and assigned staff.
• Cultivate customer relationships and intimacy to develop further opportunities within the customer community.
• Develop new business opportunities through long-term strategic planning, capture planning, proposals, and business plans.
• Establish an efficient program organizational structure and processes.
• Identify, allocate, and manage program resources, including workforce planning.
• Lead and direct cross-functional Integrated Program Teams (IPTs) to meet cost, schedule, and technical performance objectives.
• Measure and report program performance to customers and Northrop Grumman leadership.
• Deliver presentations to customers, executive management, and program stakeholders.
• Participate in negotiations involving contracts, contract changes, specifications, operating budgets, schedule milestones, and key terms and conditions.
• Establish design concepts, criteria, and engineering efforts for product research, development, integration, and test.
• Identify, distribute, track, and complete program requirements.
• Establish and manage program and subordinate baselines.
• Develop and adhere to budget baselines using Earned Value Management (EVM) or similar cost and schedule control methodologies and tools.
• Manage government- or customer-supplied property or information, including GFE and CFE.
• Manage suppliers to meet program objectives.
• Adhere to internal processes, policies, and applicable industry standards.
• Ensure the program team understands and adheres to contract scope, and manage change through control board activities.
• Develop and adhere to master plans and schedules.
• Conduct risk and opportunity management, including identification, mitigation, and realization.

Benefits

• Health insurance coverage
• Life insurance
• Disability insurance
• Savings plan
• Company-paid holidays
• Paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business
• Potential eligibility for overtime, shift differential, and discretionary bonus, depending on the position
• Potential eligibility for long-term incentives for employees in Vice President or Director positions
• Relocation assistance may be available

What This Job Offers

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