Manager Strategic Planning

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE:
Relocation assistance may be available

CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START:
Yes

CLEARANCE TYPE:
Secret

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.

The Competitive Assessment Manager will lead customer and competitor intelligence collection, research, and analysis for Aeronautics capture opportunities - providing insight on customer buying behavior, competitor win strategies, and delivering targeted recommendations to capture, division, and sector leadership.

• Provide strategic and tactical competitive insights to capture and campaign teams; primarily focused on Enterprise Priority Win pursuits
• Customer Intelligence:
  Acquisition approach, funding forecast, award behaviors, stakeholder analysis, evaluation criteria, etc.
• Competitor Intelligence:
  Strategy, leadership, technical solutions, execution approach, SWOT, shaping objectives, etc.
• Ad hoc projects as assigned, including various deep dive projects to support win themes and ghosting and inform business cases and competitive pricing
• Develop, organize, and lead teams to successfully execute workshops, strategy reviews, targeted analyses - including Customer/Competitor Black Hats
• Consultant engagement and third-party studies, and technical assessments
• Refine or innovate new team processes to improve efficiency and analysis quality

• Passion for combat aviation
• Detail-oriented critical thinker
• Comfort with ambiguity and passion for creative problem-solving
• Motivated and proactive; inclined to take action without direction
• Comfortable working in a matrixed environment and managing multiple stakeholders and interests
• Ability to focus, (re) prioritize, and multitask to deliver on commitments

• Must either have a bachelor’s degree in business, engineering or related discipline and 5 years of related professional/military experience or a master’s degree in business, engineering or related discipline and 3 years of related professional/military experience or a PhD in business, engineering or related discipline and 0 years of related professional/military experience
• Must have an active DoD Secret or Top-Secret clearance or higher (with a background investigation completed within the last 6 years or currently enrolled into Continuous Evaluation)
• Ability to obtain and maintain special program access within a reasonable period of time as determined by the needs of the business
• Strong working knowledge of defense aeronautics market, defense acquisition process, industry portfolios
• Experience contributing to competitive assessments or strategy projects

• Experience leading, executing, or contributing to a variety of competitive assessments or program/capture strategies on major aeronautics opportunities
• Working knowledge of priority captures and Business Acquisition Process
• Experience developing executive-level presentations and using data analytics in a creative and productive way
• Demonstrated ability to effectively collaborate with programs, business management, strategy, supply…