Northrop Grumman · 8 hours ago
Senior Director Contracts Administration - R10218599
Northrop Grumman is a leader in technological advancements and is seeking a Senior Director of Contracts Administration. The role involves providing contractual leadership, developing high-performing teams, and strategically engaging with customers to enhance business relationships.
AerospaceData IntegrationManufacturingRemote SensingSecurity
Responsibilities
Drive financial outcomes by demonstrating ownership and leading the team to deliver strong financial performance, and ensuring good business deals
Create and execute contractual strategies that result in sustainable value creation that deliver measurable results
Make decisions with speed, offer guidance and work collaboratively with a multitude of organizations
Achieve top performance through proactive risk and change management
Provide expert advice to various levels of leadership on topics such as contractual risks, liabilities, innovative contracting solutions and contractual strategy utilizing excellent oral and written communication skills and ability to provide independent recommendations
Build and develop high-performing teams that achieve success through a strong culture of early engagement, internal collaboration, and critical thinking including cross-functional/cross-organization teams
Lead and foster professional development through choreographed training, learning by doing initiatives, coaching and mentoring
Serve as a role model for inclusion by seeking out and including diverse opinions and perspectives, to include the ability to solve complex problems with new ideas from a variety of sources
Strategically engage with customers to build strong business relationships, enabling RFP shaping of contractual requirements and successful negotiation outcomes
Implement coordinated customer engagement plans and create succinct value propositions at the right level
Broaden NG’s reach and influence by conveying our strategic value to our customers and building advocacy
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's Degree with 12 or more years or a Master's degree with 10 or more years of relevant professional experience
6 or more years of management experience
Demonstrated experience building and developing high-performing teams that achieve success through a strong culture of early engagement, internal collaboration, and critical thinking including cross-functional/cross-organization teams
Broad experience in managing contracts throughout the acquisition life cycle, including reviewing and approving contractual documents for protection of the company's contractual posture and adherence to company policy
Experience in early business deal shaping, risk identification/mitigation, proposal development, negotiation skills, change management, customer intimacy
US Citizenship
Active U.S. Government Secret clearance; Or DoE equivalent
Preferred
Active US Top Secret Security clearance, SCI and/or SAP cleared
Knowledge of and experience with Pricing and Estimating (P&E) methodologies, quality, and compliance requirements (FAR/DFARS)
Knowledge of FAR, DFAR, CAS, TINA and other Government procurement regulations as they pertain to bid/costing proposals
Benefits
Health insurance coverage
Life and disability insurance
Savings plan
Company paid holidays
Paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business
Company
Northrop Grumman
Northrop Grumman is an aerospace, defense and security company that provides training and satellite ground network communications software.
Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$3.7BKey Investors
U.S. Department of DefenseNASA
2025-05-27Post Ipo Debt· $1B
2024-01-29Post Ipo Debt· $2.5B
2023-12-20Grant· $72M
Leadership Team
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