Principal​/Senior Principal ERP Group Pegging and Distribution; GPD BPL

Principal/Senior Principal ERP Group Pegging and Distribution (GPD) Business Process Lead

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 Defense Systems (DS) Chief Information and Digital Office (CIDO) is seeking a qualified Principal/Senior Principal ERP Group Pegging and Distribution (GPD) Business Process Lead to perform Quality, Manufacturing and Infrastructure (QM&I) ERP support. The successful candidate will support the function across the Defense Sector, and will deliver Level 2/BPL support for Defense Sector programs and sites using or migrating to SAP S/4 Hana.

Roles and responsibilities for the role include:

• 100% full-time assignment to the on-going care and feeding, adoption and continuation of process standardization for the assigned functional and business areas.
• Transform the business and enable organic and inorganic growth through process simplification and ERP rollouts, across P&L and business view.
• Serve as subject matter expert for designing and driving common processes globally; design a global template for business processes and maintain its integrity as the gatekeeper.
• Effectively engage subject matter experts from the business function and translate their needs into high impact solutions for the business and its customers.
• Train and assist site leads on processes, SAP transactions, and key implementation activities (site CRP, standard process adoption, cutover strategies, training, and other go live activities).
• Continually partner with site functional leaders to identify change management processes based on the impact of a global process; influence and guide sites to adopt the new process while preserving the template.
• Assist sites with UAT; own test scripts, ensure readiness quality, and coach sites during UAT execution.
• Lead end user training in collaboration with site functional leads.
• Provide direction to site teams on master data cleansing and cutover based on common processes and own the mapping of operational end user roles and responsibilities driven by the global process.
• Manage SOX deliverables for the function and work with the global STAT leader to ensure compliant solutions.
• Proactively manage issues and resolve project risks.
• Analyze, develop strategies, and manage ERP changes resulting from acquisitions, legal entity restructuring, and rooftop consolidations.

In addition, other duties will include incident management, change management, system monitoring & health checks, new request support, patch & regression testing, user training and documentation in the defined process area.

While remote work is available for this position, the successful candidate will be expected to travel up to 25% of the time for colocations and onsite support/training.

Characteristics required for success in this role:

• Ability to solve problems quickly and completely; analytical problem-solving skills; adept at root-cause analysis and mitigation.
• Ability to work independently while being conscious of the larger systems infrastructure.
• Ability to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced, matrixed environment.
• Possess drive, enthusiasm and attention to detail.
• Time management skills and a proven ability to ensure completion of tasks within schedule
• Superior written and oral communication skills

Basic qualifications for this role include:

• Minimum education and experience: P03:
  Minimum Education or Experience; 5 Years of related experience with Bachelors; 3…