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The Program Manager will manage cost, schedule, and technical performance across multiple development projects while leading proposal activities and capture planning. They will act as the primary customer contact, ensuring effective team integration and alignment with strategic objectives.
Candidates must possess a Bachelor's degree with 8 years of experience or a Master's degree with 6 years of experience in project or program management. An active U.S. Government Top Secret clearance is required, along with the ability to obtain and maintain Special Access Program (SAP) clearance.
Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems is seeking a motivated and execution-oriented Program Manager 2 to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals
in either Rancho Bernardo, CA or Palmdale, CA.
The ideal candidate thrives on shaping and developing high-value strategy and execution of multiple projects for a complex program, orchestrating proposal activities to achieve organization goals that align with customer’s strategic objectives while ensuring successful program execution. The candidate should be a self-starter with familiarity working in an Integrated Product Team construct.
Roles and Responsibilities will include:
Manage cost, schedule, and technical performance across multiple development projects.
Develop, maintain, and monitor master plans, roadmaps, and milestone schedules; ensure adherence and take corrective actions as needed.
Establish and manage budget baselines, including application of Earned Value Management (EVM) methodologies and tools when required.
Identify program problems and implement solutions, including resource reallocation or contractual changes.
Conduct thorough risk and opportunity management: identify, mitigate, track, and realize opportunities and mitigations.
Lead issue resolution and decision-making to closure, balancing competing perspectives, constraints, stakeholder priorities, and strategic objectives.
Act as primary customer contact for program activities; plan and lead program review sessions with customers and senior leadership to address cost, schedule, and technical performance.
Build and sustain an effective, engaged, and integrated team in a complex, geographically dispersed, partner-rich environment.
Direct and align subcontractors and suppliers to common program objectives and performance expectations.
Identify, allocate, and manage program resources, including workforce planning and assignment of responsibilities.
Identify, distribute, track, and facilitate completion of program requirements and deliverables.
Support capture management and pursuit of new business: lead capture planning, long-term strategic planning, and development of proposals and business plans.
Lead proposal preparation and support contract negotiations and contract change activities.
Cultivate customer relationships to deepen engagement and develop further opportunities within the customer community.
Deliver presentations to customers, executives, management, and other program stakeholders to communicate status, risks, and decisions.
The selected candidate will be required to work full-time, on-site at our facility. There is no remote / hybrid / telework available for this position. Travel up to 25% may be required.
Our Leaders at Northrop Grumman live our values daily and encourage our teams to do the same. We do the right thing: upholding the highest ethical standards and facilitating a safe and respectful environment that attracts, retains, and inspires a diverse and engaged team. We do what we promise: holding yourself and others accountable to meet predictable and balanced results. We commit to shared success: operating as OneNG and removing barriers for our teams. Finally, We pioneer: setting a vision that shapes the future and inspires others.
Bachelor’s degree and 8 years of related experience as defined below, OR a Master’s degree and 6 years of related experience as defined below:
Related experience includes professional and/or military experience to include a background in project management, program management, engineering, capture efforts, and/or business management related functions.
Excellent communication skills and ability to effectively interact with the customer, program management, business unit and supply base executives and functional management.
Experience leading the performance of tasks on schedule, at cost and achieving all requirements as either project lead, integrated program team or cost account manager.
Demonstrated leadership of cross-functional engineering and capture efforts on classified DoD programs, including IMP/IMS development, requirements decomposition/verification, and risk/opportunity management.
Current applicable Special Access Program (SAP) clearance.
2 years’ experience in profit & loss (P&L) program management on a DoD program.
Risk and opportunity management experience.
Proposal management experience.
Control Account Manager (CAM) Certification.
4 or more years of experience as a CAM.
Long term strategy development experience.
We are a close-knit community of big thinkers collaborating to keep the world safe. Our passion, creativity and expertise bring next-level technology solutions to life in autonomous systems, cyber, C4ISR, strike, space, and logistics and modernization for our customers around the globe. On the Northrop Grumman team, you’ll join our pursuit of excellence immersed in a dynamic culture of innovation and respect. Your unique perspective will help achieve our shared vision for the future of global security. Every step of the way, you'll be supported by world-class training, employee resource groups and a comprehensive benefits package that enables greater health and happiness for you and your family. Worldwide and across disciplines, we’re challenging what’s possible for technology to protect people and places from undersea to outer space and into cyberspace. And we see the impact of our performance every day. We are Northrop Grumman, and we work on what matters—now, you too can make a difference. Explore opportunities in engineering, IT, manufacturing, business management, cybersecurity and more at jobs.northropgrumman.com/careers. Northrop Grumman is an Equal Opportunity Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected class. For our complete EEO and pay transparency statement, please visit http://www.northropgrumman.com/EEO. U.S. Citizenship is required for all positions with a government clearance and certain other restricted positions. Our careers site can be found at jobs.northropgrumman.com/careers. If you are contacted about a job at Northrop Grumman, please verify the email came from the domain @ngc.com before engaging with that contact. If you are contacted by a Northrop Grumman recruiter on LinkedIn, please that their profile includes the verified check mark to ensure the contact is legitimate.
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