Manager Supplier Quality - R10232872

Relocation Assistance: No relocation assistance available

Clearance Required for Start: Yes

Clearance Type: Interim Secret

Travel: Yes, 25% of the Time

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 Sector is seeking a Supplier Performance Management (SPM) Business Unit (BU) Manager to join the Baltimore Global Supply Chain (GSC) Leadership Team. This position requires onsite work located at our Baltimore, MD or Troy Hill/Elkridge, MD site.

• Set the strategy to drive supplier performance, ensure first‑time quality, and build a culture that motivates employees to achieve their highest levels of performance.
• Frequently interface with Division and BU executives and customer representatives concerning supplier quality risks, mitigation plans, and issue resolution.
• Engage in Program Capture and Kickoff activities to identify supplier quality risk in program sourcing plans, influence sourcing strategy to include capable suppliers and to identify risk mitigation strategies to minimize impact of poor supplier quality.
• Collaborate with Program Quality to ensure appropriate quality requirements for programs are identified and flowed down to suppliers via purchasing documents.
• Work with program personnel to ensure adequate funding is identified for Supplier Quality risk mitigation and product validation activities; monitor Supplier Quality team activities to ensure consistency with spend plan.
• Coordinate with SPM Field Quality Engineering team to ensure program risk mitigation strategies are executed in conjunction with key program schedule milestones.
• Establish and monitor Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to identify and pursue systemic improvement opportunities.
• Use data‑driven processes to measure supplier quality performance, mitigation of risk, develop audit plans, Control Plan audits, and to lead continuous improvement processes.
• Develop and implement proactive supplier quality initiatives/plans to reduce quality issues at critical suppliers and ensure products are at an appropriate level of producibility to meet cost and schedule targets.
• Implement and utilize quality tools and processes, such as Process Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (PFMEA), Eight Disciplines (8D), Design for Excellence (DFX), Three Element (3E), Root Cause Corrective Action (RCCA), Supplier Corrective Actions (SCAR), and cause‑and‑effect diagrams (Fishbone).
• Ensure critical suppliers are identified and the appropriate quality performance feedback is measured, accurate and communicated.
• Promote the professional development of the SPM team and foster a collaborative culture that sustains momentum around employee engagement, inclusion, affordability, innovation, value growth and continuous improvement.
• Participate in supplier on‑site reviews, identifying risks and areas of focus for ensuring confidence in receiving on‑time, conforming material.
• Mentor and train a team of supplier quality engineers in driving supplier quality and improved performance.
• Work cross‑functionally between different teams, including category management, operations, mission assurance and engineering, to drive accountability and conformance of our suppliers’ material receipts.

• Bachelor’s Degree with a minimum of 8 years in Program or Project Management, Quality, Mission Assurance, Manufacturing, Global Supply Chain, Operations, or Engineering, OR a…