Analytics Manager

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE:
No relocation assistance available

CLEARANCE TYPE:
None

TRAVEL:
Yes, 10% 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 Insights & Intelligence (i2) is seeking a manager to lead People Analytics for Northrop Grumman’s Defense Systems sector (NGDS). This position reports to the Director, People AI & Analytics, with a dotted line to the Defense Systems HR Vice President. This role will sit in our Falls Church, VA location but we may also consider a hybrid or teleworker arrangement for this position.

At Northrop Grumman, People AI & Analytics is a core domain within our Insights & Intelligence (i2) organization. As part of our Chief Information & Digital Office (CIDO), i2 works with all enterprise domains and businesses to drive our data, analytics & AI transformation.

As the lead of NGDS People Analytics, you will be responsible for leveraging the entire range of our analytics capabilities to refine and enable the Defense Systems sector people strategy. In these efforts, you will help HR leaders and the business make informed decisions across multiple areas of human capital including, but not limited to: talent acquisition, culture, talent management, compensation and retention.

• Being curious, detail-oriented, and ethically conscious.

• You seek to ask the right questions about our strategies, the business, and how we can use data to find solutions.

• You are a strategic thinker who can translate data to create well-informed decisions to enable better business outcomes.

• You want to drive positive change for our organizations, are candid and collaborative in taking on our most difficult analytics projects as well as the process and culture changes that accompanies them.

• You build deep and trusted partnerships at the working and organizational levels.

• Serving on the Defense Systems Sector HR leadership team to optimize the use of analytics in driving the sector people strategy

• Serving on the People AI & Analytics leadership team to bring sector specific business needs forward to inform our enterprise people analytics strategy

• Leading the Sector team of analysts and data scientists

• Conducting strategic analyses and research needed to enable Defense Systems Sector human capital objectives

• Integrating, tailoring, and applying corporate analytics capability for the benefit of the sector

• Identifying and articulating team priorities based on business needs

• Communicating results to an executive audience to effectively tell the data story

As a full-time employee of Northrop Grumman, you are eligible for our robust benefits package including:

• Medical, Dental & Vision coverage

• 401k

• Educational Assistance

• Life Insurance

• Employee Assistance Programs & Work/Life Solutions

• Paid Time Off

• Health & Wellness Resources

• Employee Discounts

This position’s standard work schedule is a 9/80. The 9/80 schedule allows employees who work a nine-hour day Monday through Thursday to take every other Friday off.

Basic Qualifications:

• Must have a Bachelor's degree with a minimum of 8 years of relevant experience – OR – a Master’s degree with 6 years of relevant experience – OR – a PhD with 4 years of relevant experience.

• Deep curiosity and a willingness to pull the thread on difficult questions.

• Understanding of (or interest in) HR domain areas and metrics (such as talent acquisition,…