Program Manager II - R10216948

Program Manager II - R

Northrop Grumman offers incredible opportunities to work on revolutionary systems that impact people’s lives around the world today and for generations to come. 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 the ability to bring your whole self to work.

Relocation Assistance: No relocation assistance available.
Clearance Type: Secret.
Travel: Yes, 25% of the time.

• Cultivating customer relationships and intimacy to develop further opportunities within the customer community.
• Develop and mentor Junior Program Managers and IPT resources.
• Developing new business opportunities through long‑term strategic planning, capture planning, and development of proposals and business plans.
• Establishing a program organization that effectively addresses customer requirements and incorporates the necessary internal and external sub‑organizations.
• Leading and directing cross‑functional Integrated Program Teams (IPT) to meet program cost, schedule, and technical performance objectives.
• Leading geographically distributed cross‑functional IPTs.
• Measuring and reporting program performance.
• Delivering presentations to customers, executive management and other program stakeholders.
• Participating in the negotiation of contracts, contract changes, specifications, operating budgets, schedule milestones, and key terms and conditions.
• Establishing design concepts, criteria, and engineering efforts for product research, development, integration and test.
• Creation, review and finalization of the program Statement of Work.
• Identification, distribution, tracking, and completion of program requirements.
• Establishment and management of the program and subordinate baselines.
• Development and adherence to budget baselines utilizing Earned Value Management (EVM) or similar cost & schedule control methodologies and tools.
• Identifying, allocating and managing program resources, including workforce planning.
• Managing suppliers to meet program objectives.
• Adherence to all internal processes, policies, and applicable industry standards.
• Ensuring program team understands and adheres to contract scope, and manages change through control board activities.
• Development and adherence to master plans and schedules.
• Conducting thorough risk & opportunity management practices including identification, mitigation and realization.

• Excellent interpersonal skills with ability to manage a project team daily and communicate effectively with segment leadership regarding status, awareness, and escalations.
• Ability to manage projects to specified milestones and established schedules.
• Ability to resolve disputes and negotiate with positive outcome while maintaining good relationships within the organization.
• Ability to manage communications with stakeholders through organized processes to ensure program information is defined, collected, shared, understood, stored and retrieved in a manner that effectively meets program and stakeholder needs.
• Ability to identify and address program impacts through a systematic, proactive approach to issue and problem resolution that identifies, communicates, monitors, and promptly resolves conflicts across all levels of the program.
• Ability to define proposal strategy, lead proposal teams, analyze and shape RFPs, produce and deliver winning proposals, effectively track and incorporate Review Team comments and findings, and manage post‑proposal submittals (orals, finding responses).
• Ability to address program uncertainty through an organized and analytical forward‑looking approach that identifies risks and opportunities, determines appropriate handling plans, and manages, controls, and communicates risks and opportunities throughout the lifecycle of the program.

• Bachelor’s degree and 8 years of experience OR Master’s degree and 6 years experience supporting U.S. Government contracts and customers and/or project management in other industries.
• 8 years of experience leading the performance of tasks on schedule, at…