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Northrop Grumman · 23 hours ago

Manager Programs 3 - R10218566

Melbourne, FL

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level

$167K/yr - $250K/yr

7+ years exp

Northrop Grumman is a leading aerospace and defense technology company, seeking a Program Manager 3 for their Battle Management Architecture, Systems, Technology Research and Advanced Design portfolio. The role involves managing contractual requirements, leading cross-functional teams, and ensuring successful program execution while maintaining customer relationships.

AerospaceData IntegrationManufacturingRemote SensingSecurity

Growth Opportunities

No H1B

Security Clearance Required

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

Managing a large diverse partner base in a customer environment that supports it with incremental funding. Being familiar with dynamic purchase order changes, frequency spend plan updates, and managing staff across all incremental updates, albeit schedule or funding

Understand restricted DoD customer communities, program management skills, proven strategic planning and business execution capabilities, as well as the ability to work collaboratively across the enterprise

Development of Customer and stakeholder relationships and cultivation of Customer intimacy

Development and delivery of presentations to Customers, leadership, and program stakeholders

Knowledge of program management standards, policies, and guidelines; but with the ability to modify for efficiency, speed, and agility to support a customer base that is of the mindset to move fast with less bureaucracy

Establish, manage, and track budget baselines, milestones, inter- and intra-program dependencies, and adherence to master plans and schedules. Being able to adapt plans and schedules in an organized forward-facing view to the execution teams

Support the various internal and external program reviews throughout the organization

Establish highly effective means to identify programmatic issues and concerns early, such that resolutions are achieved in a go-fast manner

Leverage the various functional organizations to achieve the cost, schedule, and technical goals of the Program

Be capable of reassigning staff in a dynamic and incremental funded manner, working in concert with the BAST portfolio. Ability to request staffing moves from NCTA to program as needed to ensure success. Build and sustain an effective, engaged, and integrated team in a complex, geographically dispersed, and dynamic environment

Effectively coordinate and collaborate with directorate leadership to ensure required staffing, processes, tools, training, infrastructure, etc. are provided to support successful program execution

Qualification

DoD contracts managementEarned Value ManagementProgram risk managementBudget managementMS Project proficiencyCustomer relationship managementProject management planningCommunication skillsTeam leadership

Required

Bachelor's Degree and 9 years, or Master's and 7 years, experience actively executing DoD contracts as the program manager

Experience with Earned Value Management processes

Experience leading small teams in a dynamic work environment

Demonstrated understanding of program risk, opportunity and issue management process

Experience managing multiple suppliers and subcontractors

Must have an active DoD Secret (or higher) clearance (with a background investigation within the past 6 years or enrolled into Continuous Evaluation)

Must have ability to obtain and maintain DoD Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility and the ability to obtain and maintain Special Access Program (SAP) within a reasonable time as determined by business

Preferred

Current TS/SCI

Excellent organizational and written communication skills, as well as project management planning and presentation skills

Proficient with MS Project, Excel, Power Point, Word

Demonstrated ability to create trusted customer relationships

Experience with business management including contracts, pricing, accounting, program planning & financial control, financial planning and program cost and scheduling baselining

Open to direction and collaborative work style; commitment to get the job completed

Prior clearance to a Special Access Program (SAP) or Special Compartmentalized Information (SCI)