Manager Programs - Guidance System Integration Supplier Management Lead

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE:
Relocation assistance may be available

CLEARANCE TYPE:
Secret

TRAVEL:
Yes, 25% 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 Defense Systems is seeking a Manager Programs 2 - Guidance System Integration Supplier Management Lead
. This position will be located in Roy, Utah and will support the Sentinel (GBSD) program. This role may offer a competitive relocation assistance package.

As the AVE GN&C GSI Supplier Management Team (SMT) Lead, you will lead a dynamic cross functional team managing major supplier efforts by providing Program Management leadership and direction in support of multi-million-dollar design and construction projects. The SMT includes contributors from multiple organizations:

• SMT Program Manager (Team Lead)

• Global Supply Chain (GSC)

• Mission Assurance (MA)

• Production

• Engineering

• Business Management

• Contracts

• Various support functions

The SMT Lead, must possess the following competencies:

• Identifies and controls all subcontract management activities and processes while integrating supplier interdependencies throughout the program’s life cycle

• Applies knowledge, insights, and understanding of business and/or financial concepts, tools, and processes to support Subcontract decisions, actions, and performance corrections

• Fosters collaboration among team members and between teams

• Identifies and addresses subcontract impacts through a proactive systematic approach

• Promptly resolves conflicts across all levels of the subcontract.

• Supports and monitors technical performance baselines, while compare key subcontract technical performance measures, assesses execution status, and takes appropriate action to maintain conformance with the baseline

• Identifies and addresses impacts through a systematic and proactive approach to Risk and Opportunity Management

• Communicates, monitors, and promptly resolves issues across all functional elements within the SMT, including the supplier

• Manages and balances communications with stakeholders through organized and disciplined processes ensuring that Subcontract information is defined, collected, shared, understood, stored, and retrieved in a manner that effectively meets Subcontract and stakeholder needs while protecting the company’s contractual rights

• Effectively manages/administrates subcontracts through a broad set of skills, toolsets, processes, and government regulations

• Addresses subcontract uncertainty through an organized and analytical forward-looking approach identifying risks and opportunities, determines appropriate handling, manages, and communicates risks and opportunities throughout the life cycle of the Subcontract

• Effectively plans, defines, establishes, communicates, monitors, and controls scope to ensure that all of the work required and only the work required, is performed.

• Roles and Responsibilities:

• Addresses subcontract uncertainty through an organized and analytical forward-looking approach that identifies risks and opportunities, determines appropriate handling, manages, and communicates risks and opportunities throughout the life cycle of the Subcontract.

• Oversee and provide financial control and maintenance of budgets including EVMS metrics (specifically IPMDAR evaluation and reviewing leading/lagging metrics and how they can be applied to performance management) and Variance Explanations as a Control Account Manager for your supplier

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