Engineering and Strategic Planning Director

Director, Engineering Strategic Planning

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 nations 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, theyre making history.

The Strategy & Engineering Excellence (S&EE) organization is a trusted partner in Engineering Performance, Technology Leadership and Technical Talent and helps drive innovation and strategy for Engineering & Sciences. The Director, Engineering Strategic Planning is responsible for leading strategy development in line with the Engineering & Sciences and Mission Systems sectors strategic objectives. This critical role requires extensive collaboration across a diverse group of sectors, division, internal stakeholders and external industry partners and is responsible for identifying and driving innovation to prepare E&S for the future. The preferred candidate will have a solid technical background, strategic mindset and ability to influence multiple levels of leadership and customers to drive cost, performance, schedule and improvement to innovate and execute engineering activities.

Specific responsibilities include (but not limited to) :

• Leads collaborative partnership endeavors with stakeholders across the Sector and company to understand key drivers to business success and enhance the probability of meeting E&S longer-term goals. Focus on teamwork and collaboration across the Strategic Growth community.
• Develops coordinated efforts for new and emerging markets and collaborates with strategic investment to ensure the strategic plan has appropriate funding in place to support E&S and Mission Systems goals.
• Fostering collaboration through groups such as reusable asset authorities, advisory boards, communities of practice, and centers of excellence.
• Partner with other functional organizations (manufacturing, supply chain, program management, etc.) to enable competitive engineering design and performance.
• Act as E&S primary interface to internal, cross-functional and external partnerships to include but not limited to : EELT initiatives (Sector Operating Objectives : Improve Product delivery & Engineering Process Initiatives), Cross Sector Engineering Initiatives (Technical Bi-Lats; Test Engineering; ECD (Product Lines)), Identify Industry Partnerships externally, both aerospace and commercial to solve problems (Design to Cost, SE Copilot)

Drive E&S long term strategy by completing market assessments, technology roadmaps, and identification of opportunities in support of market strategy to support growth and profitability. Maintain 10-year pipeline roadmap, including emerging market opportunities and upcoming tool / system integration.

Support impact and growth in engineering for informed cost and performance decisions, ensuring seamless, data-driven optimization for scalable delivery across environments.

Provide leadership for the teams sector-wide strategic actions to improve engineering competitiveness and sustained growth through strong internal and external partners, aligned roadmaps and cross-functional partnerships, with reusable engineering assets and workflows enhancing efficiency and agility and cost.

Partner with CIDO to execute E&S Strategy, integrations and future technologies to build out engineering ecosystem :

Identify future skills needed that strengthen E&S ability to be competitive, evolve technical skills and establish role-based development tracks aligned to the mission needs.

Create & deploy targeted training & development aligned to critical skills and technical leadership needs.

Ensure workforce is developing to execute engineering strategy and prepared for innovation.

Preferred Location Baltimore, MD but will consider candidates located at or near any of the following major NGMS facilities : San Diego, CA, Rolling Meadows, IL, or Woodland Hills, CA.

Position requires travel up to 30% of the time to support distributed team.

Solid-line report to the Director of Strategy & Engineering Excellence.

Basic Qualifications :

Preferred Qualifications :

Primary Level Salary Range : $171,400.00 - $257,200.00 The above salary range represents a general guideline; however, Northrop Grumman considers a number of factors when determining base salary offers such as the scope and responsibilities of the position and the candidates experience, education, skills and current market conditions. Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay. Annual bonuses are designed to reward individual contributions as well as allow employees to share in company results. Employees in Vice President or Director positions may be eligible for Long Term Incentives. In addition, Northrop Grumman provides a variety of benefits including health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, savings plan, Company paid holidays and paid time off (PTO) for vacation and / or personal business.