Engineering and Strategic Planning Director

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE:
Relocation assistance may be available

CLEARANCE TYPE:
Secret

TRAVEL:
Yes, 50% 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 Strategy & Engineering Excellence (S&EE) organization is a trusted partner in Engineering Performance, Technology Leadership and Technical Talent and helps drive innovation and strategy for Engineering & Sciences. The Director, Engineering Strategic Planning, is responsible for leading strategy development in line with the Engineering & Sciences and Mission Systems sector’s strategic objectives. This critical role requires extensive collaboration across a diverse group of sectors, division, internal stakeholders and external industry partners and is responsible for identifying and driving innovation to prepare E&S for the future.

The preferred candidate will have a solid technical background, strategic mindset and ability to influence multiple levels of leadership and customers to drive cost, performance, schedule and improvement to innovate and execute engineering activities.

Specific Responsibilities include (but not limited to):

• Leads collaborative partnership endeavors with stakeholders across the Sector and company to understand key drivers to business success and enhance the probability of meeting E&S longer-term goals. Focus on teamwork and collaboration across the Strategic Growth community.
• Develops coordinated efforts for new and emerging markets and collaborates with strategic investment to ensure the strategic plan has appropriate funding in place to support E&S and Mission System’s goals.
• Fostering collaboration through groups such as reusable asset authorities, advisory boards, communities of practice, and centers of excellence.
• Partner with other functional organizations (manufacturing, supply chain, program management, etc.) to enable competitive engineering design and performance
• Act as E&S primary interface to internal, cross-functional and external partnerships to include but not limited to:
• EELT initiatives (Sector Operating Objectives: Improve Product delivery & Engineering Process Initiatives)
• Cross Sector Engineering Initiatives (Technical Bi-Lats;
  Test Engineering; ECD (Product Lines),
• Identify Industry Partnerships externally, both aerospace and commercial to solve problems (Design to Cost, SE Copilot…)

• Drive E&S long term strategy by completing market assessments, technology roadmaps, and identification of opportunities in support of market strategy to support growth and profitability. Maintain 10-year pipeline roadmap, including emerging market opportunities and upcoming tool/system integration
• Support impact and growth in engineering for informed cost and performance decisions, ensuring seamless, data-driven optimization for scalable delivery across environments.
• Provide leadership for the team’s sector-wide strategic actions to improve engineering competitiveness and sustained growth through strong internal and external partners, aligned roadmaps and cross-functional partnerships, with reusable engineering assets and workflows enhancing efficiency and agility and cost.
• Partner with CIDO to execute E&S Strategy, integrations and future technologies to build out engineering ecosystem
• Implementing Mission Product Lifecycle Management (MPLM) infrastructure to enable digital thread
• Prioritize Digital Transformation and AI…