Manager Advanced Analytics and Products

Northrop Grumman; Falls Church (VA); Hybrid; USD 121,000 - 182,000; Full time

Job summary

Northrop Grumman's Insights and Intelligence organization seeks a people and product leader to head Business Management Insights and Intelligence. You will oversee analytics engineers, data scientists, and developers to deliver enterprise AI products and high-impact analyses for BM stakeholders.

The role reports to the Director of Business Insights and Intelligence and is primarily based in Falls Church, VA with hybrid/telework options.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree with 8+ years of relevant experience OR a Master’s with 6+ years OR a PhD with 4+ years of relevant experience.
• Demonstrated experience building high performing analytics teams and developing technical talent.
• Understanding of BM domain areas and metrics (financial performance, pricing, forecasting).
• Experience using analytics to inform decision making.
• Experience in executive data storytelling and presenting insights concisely.
• Ability to extract and manipulate data from databases (SQL).
• Experience with Large Language Models (LLMs) and using them to develop analytics products.
• Proficient in data visualization with Tableau or similar tools.
• Experience collaborating on cross-team projects and obtaining security clearance.

Responsibilities

• Serve on the Business i2 leadership team to drive AI, analytics and product strategy.
• Lead analytics engineers, developers, analysts and data scientists in the BM domain.
• Develop and deliver AI and analytics roadmaps that shift and improve enterprise operations.
• Align roadmap with senior stakeholders to realize business impact.
• Develop and maintain innovative data-driven products leveraging AI and analytics.
• Prioritize initiatives based on business needs and impact.
• Communicate results to executives to tell the data story.

Skills

SQL

Python

R

Tableau

LLMs

Data storytelling

Data visualization

Team leadership

Executive communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Master’s degree

PhD

Tools

Databricks

Job description

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: No relocation assistance available

CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: No

CLEARANCE TYPE: Secret

TRAVEL: Yes, 25% of the Time

Description

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 nation’s 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, they’re making history.

Northrop Grumman’s Insights and Intelligence organization is seeking a people and product leader to lead Business Management Insights and Intelligence within Northrop Grumman’s Chief Information and Digital Office.

This leader will build and develop a high-performing, multidisciplinary team that delivers trusted AI, analytics, and decision support products for enterprise and program business management stakeholders. This position will report to the Director of Business Insights and Intelligence.

Primary location of this role is Falls Church, VA, but we may also consider a hybrid or teleworker arrangement for the role.

At Northrop Grumman, Business Management (BM) is a core domain within our Insights & Intelligence (i2) organization. i2 is a team of strategic analysts, scientists, engineers, and technologists who use science, research and data to identify strategic insights and create innovative artificial intelligence (AI) and analytic solutions for our business.

In this position, you will oversee the development and deployment of enterprise AI and analytics products and deliver high-impact analyses that inform the management of our enterprise and program execution. Through these efforts, you will help BM leaders and business partners make informed decisions across multiple areas of the business including, but not limited to cost management, facility optimization, pricing and estimating and financial reporting and analysis.

Keys to success include:

• Being curious, detail-oriented, and ethically conscious.
• You seek to ask the right questions about our strategies, the business, and how we can use data to find solutions.
• You are a strategic thinker who can translate data to create well-informed decisions to enable better business outcomes.
• You want to drive positive change for our organizations, are candid and collaborative in taking on our most difficult analytics projects as well as the process and culture changes that accompanies them.
• You build deep and trusted partnerships at the working and organizational levels.

Responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

• Serving on the Business i2 leadership team where you will drive AI, analytics and product strategy.
• Leading a team of analytics engineers, developers, analysts and data scientists focused on the business management domain.
• Develop and deliver on a roadmap of AI and analytics solutions that fundamentally shift and improve Northrop Grumman’s ability to effectively manage business operations.
• Work with senior business stakeholders to ensure alignment of your roadmap with business priorities and to realize business impacts from delivery of capability
• Developing and maintaining innovative products that leverage data, AI and advanced analytics.
• Identifying and articulating team priorities based on business needs.
• Communicating results to an executive audience to effectively tell the data story.

This position’s standard work schedule is a 9/80. The 9/80 schedule allows employees who work a nine-hour day Monday through Thursday to take every other Friday off.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree and 8+ years of relevant experience – OR – a Master’s degree and 6+ years of relevant experience – OR – a PhD and 4+ years of relevant experience.
• Demonstrated experience building high performing teams and developing technical talent.
• Understanding of the Business Management domain areas and metrics (such as financial performance, pricing and estimating, and forecasting metrics).
• Demonstrated experience using analytics to inform decision making.
• Experience in executive data storytelling, building compelling and concise presentations to communicate insights.
• Ability to extract and manipulate data from databases (e.g., SQL).
• Ability to use programming languages (e.g., R, Python) to conduct statistical analyses.
• Experience with Large Language Models (LLMs) and the ability to use them to develop analysis products and capabilities.
• Proficient in data visualization using Tableau or similar visualization tool(s).
• Experience collaborating on projects with multiple teams.
• Must have the ability to obtain and maintain a security clearance.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Demonstrated people leadership skills in an analytics capacity.
• Experience using Databricks to build and operationalize analytical capabilities, from data ingestion and transformation through deployment of decision-support data products.
• Degree in a quantitative field (e.g., Math, Physics, Engineering, Statistics, Economics).
• Solid statistical understanding and exposure to more advanced analytics, such as machine learning.
• Experience leading web application development projects.
• Knowledge of the aerospace industry.
• Deep curiosity and a willingness to pull the thread on difficult questions.

CIDO

Primary Level Salary Range: $121,000.00 - $181,600.00

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 candidate’s 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.

The application period for the job is estimated to be 20 days from the job posting date. However, this timeline may be shortened or extended depending on business needs and the availability of qualified candidates.

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.