SDS Subcontract Management Team Director

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE:
Relocation assistance may be available. 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.

Northrop Grumman’s Defense Systems sector is looking for a Subcontract Management Team Director 1 to lead the Textron Systems Subcontract Management Team (SMT), located at the Strategic Deterrence Division (SDS) headquarters in Roy, UT or this position may be fully remote.

As the Textron SMTL Director, you will partner with the Program Element and Segment Executives, Global Supply Chain, Mission Assurance, and lead a cross‑functional technical team managing major supplier efforts by providing Program Management leadership, team leadership, and direction in support of multi‑million‑dollar projects.

• Supports and monitors technical performance baselines while comparing key subcontract technical performance measures, assesses execution status, and takes appropriate action to maintain conformance with the baseline.
• 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 plans, defines, establishes, communicates, monitors, and controls subcontractor scope to ensure that all of the work required and only the work required, is performed. Analyzes changes to balance technical, cost, schedule, quality requirements and develops alternatives that address program needs and expectations.
• Adhere to subcontract scope, and manage change through control board activities.
• 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 Earned Value Management Metrics, specifically Integrated Program Management Data & Analysis Report (IPMDAR) evaluation and reviewing leading/lagging metrics and how they can be applied to performance management.
• Prepare executive level briefings and develop mechanisms for monitoring project progress, tools for intervention, and problem solving with element leads, business management and customers.
• Interprets schedules from suppliers to understand impact on program schedule and milestones.
• Key leader in developing and reviewing Supplier Statements of Work (SSOWs).
• Develops and maintains Requests for Proposals (RFPs).
• Reviews supplier proposal responses, including performing technical evaluations, reviewing supplier Basis of Estimates (BOEs), overall proposal quality reviews, and attending proposal related reviews.
• Cultivates subcontractor relationships and intimacy to develop further opportunities within the Program.
• Identifies, allocates, and manages program resources, including workforce planning within the Textron SMT cross‑functional team.

• Medical, Dental & Vision coverage
• 401k
• Educational Assistance
• Life Insurance
• Employee Assistance Programs & Work/Life Solutions
• Paid Time Off
• Health & Wellness Resources
• Em…