Principal/Sr. Principal Project Management

Northrop Grumman•Rolling Meadows, IL

32d•$89,900 - $168,200•Onsite

About The Position

Northrop Grumman Mission Systems (NGMS) Multidomain Sensing, Targeting and Survivability (MSTS) seeks an innovative, high-energy, inquisitive, and self-motivated candidate to join our Mission Survivability Systems (MSS) Business Unit (BU) team as a Project Management Business Operations Analyst on-site in Rolling Meadows, IL. 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 Mission Systems is a trusted provider of mission-enabling solutions for global security. We have a wide portfolio of secure, affordable, integrated, and multi-domain systems and technologies. Our differentiated battle management and cyber solutions deliver timely, mission-enabling information and provide superior situational awareness and understanding to protect the U.S. and its global allies.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree with a minimum of 5 years of relevant work experience OR a master’s degree and 3 or more years of relevant work experience (for Principal level).
Bachelor’s degree with a minimum of 8 years of relevant work experience OR a master’s degree and 6 or more years of relevant work experience (for Sr. Principal level).
Experience producing reports, dashboards, or reconciliation summaries.
Experience interpreting data trends, forecasting and providing actionable insights through written and verbal reporting.
Experience coordinating project tasks, including planning, scheduling and tracking progress.
Minimum of 1 year experience with SAP for financial reporting or project data management.
Experience leading the performance of tasks on schedule, and achieving all requirements.
Minimum of 1 year experience utilizing dashboards or data visualizations in Tableau or similar data visualization tools.
Advanced experience in Excel including pivot tables, VLOOKUP/XLOOKUP, filters, and basic data modeling experience.
Minimum of 1 year experience with SharePoint for document management, permissions, uploading content, and maintaining organized folders for team use.
US Citizenship required.
Must be able to obtain and maintain a U.S. DoD Secret security clearance.

Nice To Haves

Active U.S. DoD Secret security clearance.
Experience with Government acquisition models, budgeting process, and financial models.
Experience supporting Government contracts.
Minimum of 1 year experience with Salesforce or other CRM systems to enter track and retrieve customer or project related data.
Minimum of 1 year experience developing dashboards or data visualizations in Tableau or similar data visualization tools.
Experience managing communications with stakeholders through organized processes to ensure that information is defined, collected, shared, understood, stored and retrieved in a manner that effectively meets stakeholder needs.
Experience with SIMPL, Salesforce, SAP and Dashboards.
Experience with Microsoft Office suite of tools (including Excel and Teams).
High level of attention to detail, producing error free reports and a high level of data integrity.

Responsibilities

Perform data analysis to optimize use of tools such as Salesforce, SIMPL, Tableau with dashboard update of the business pipeline, Non-Contract Technical Activity (NCTA) and Capital management.
Provide strategic analysis of Business Unit funding to produce actionable management information.
Support continuous improvement and driving adoption of tools and practices.
Responsible for reviews and reports on project metrics to benchmark effectiveness.
Work closely to ensure that tool data sets are accurately implemented, maintaining metrics, and other project management duties.
Provide assistance, service and support to division and business unit to increase efficiency, effectiveness and reporting of division program execution metrics.
Support Business Unit NCTA (Primary) and Capital Project (Back-Up) financial reporting and Division Resource Board (DRB) utilizing the RDIS/SIMPL and Tableau on-line tools.
Perform various operations support tasks as needed, such as recording meeting minutes and actions, generating reports and briefing slides, managing miscellaneous tools and submitting data through computer applications and tools.
Organize and prioritize tasking to successfully execute on multiple simultaneous projects.
Understanding pipeline/LRSP to ensure accurate NCTA funding and support business growth, analyze Salesforce data and update dashboards as needed.
Provides data management and analysis skills with working knowledge of Excel to represent data visually.
Supporting large data analytic projects including but not limited to pipeline reviews, pipeline sufficiency.
Ensure consistency in naming conventions and promotes the sharing and reuse of data across applications.
Independently demonstrates the skill and ability to perform fairly complex professional tasks.
May develop and deliver presentations.