Director of Program Excellence I

Northrop GrummanNorthridge, CA, US

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Director of Program Excellence 1

Northrop Grumman's Advanced Weapons Business Unit (AWBU) is seeking a Director of Program Excellence 1 located in Northridge CA.

As a member of the Advanced Weapons executive leadership team, the AW Program Excellence Director is responsible for enhancing program performance by leveraging processes, tools, coaching and PM Development resources across the Business Unit. This position will require the selected candidate to span the program excellence arena from digging into complex program execution issues to help drive solutions through developing program excellence strategies applicable to a broad set of program types and complexities. The position will also play a key role in program proposal strategy and will develop and support strategies to scale the business to enable program acceleration of the Business Unit Long Range Strategic Plan.

Primary roles and responsibilities include :

Transform and drive program execution rigor to enable sustainable profitable growth and consistently meet customer and company commitments
Mitigate current and near-term programmatic risk while building long-term program excellence capability and culture.
Develop world class program managers by investing in tools, processes, knowledge, and skill building enabling results driven decision making.
Lead efforts to instill a culture of performance and program execution excellence throughout the Business Unit
Operate as independent oversight with implementation authority & process accountability.
Partner with the Division Program Excellence team on developing and instilling best practices
Work with programs leadership to develop proposal strategies that will lead to profitable and executable programs
Work with executive and program leadership to develop and execute strategies to accelerate the scaling of our business across our factories, suppliers, and through organizational and staffing strategies
Establish and lead the Advanced Weapons Program Management Council

Basic Qualifications :

Bachelor's or higher degree in a related field and minimum of 10 years of program management experience (3 5) years in a formal management role

Expertise in program execution, earned value management, change management, risk management, and stakeholder management

Experience managing complex projects / programs across with different customers across multiple phases of the program lifecycle

Experience briefing executives and managing expectations

Demonstrated ability to operate in complex environment and challenging situations

Willingness to travel up to 25% per month.

Able to obtain a Secret Clearance

Must be a US Citizen

Preferred Qualifications :

Experience as a member of a senior executive management team

Strong execution track record as a PM on a large complex program

Experience in startup or recovery situations that required review and enhancement of metrics, processes, ops tempo, and decision-making tools / products

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Director Program • Northridge, CA, US