Manager Programs 2 - Supplier Management Team Lead 20074

Northrop Grumman; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental & Vision coverage

401k

Educational Assistance

Life Insurance

Employee Assistance Programs & Work/Li

Paid Time Off

Health & Wellness Resources

Employee Discounts

Job summary

Northrop Grumman Defense Systems seeks a Manager Programs 2 - Supplier Management Team Lead to guide a cross-functional team on major supplier efforts for the Sentinel program. The role requires program leadership, technical oversight, and disciplined stakeholder coordination.

Responsibilities include monitoring performance baselines, risk management, and ensuring subcontractor scope alignment while protecting contractual rights. Relocation or schedule flexibility may apply.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree with 8+ years related experience or master's with 6+ years (or 4 years' related experience in lieu of degree).
• 3 years working with Training systems.
• Active U.S. Government Secret clearance; ability to obtain SAP.
• Experience supporting U.S. Government contracts.

Responsibilities

• Leads a cross functional team managing supplier efforts and program performance.
• Oversees risk, cost, and schedule baselines and ensures conformance with baselines.
• Manages subcontract scope, communications with stakeholders, and subcontractor performance.

Skills

Training systems

Security clearance

Contract management

Education

Bachelor's degree with related experience

Master's degree

Job description

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: No relocation assistance available

CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: Yes

CLEARANCE TYPE: Secret

TRAVEL: Yes, 10% 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 Defense Systems is seeking a Manager Programs 2 - Supplier Management Team Lead . This position will be located in Roy, Utah and will support the Sentinel program.

What You’ll Get to Do:

As the Supplier Management Team Lead, Program Manager 2, you will lead a dynamic cross functional team managing major supplier efforts by providing Program Management leadership, technical leadership, team leadership, and direction in support of multi-million-dollar projects.

The SMT includes contributors from multiple organizations:

• SMT Program Manager (Team Lead - This Position)
• Engineering Support Team
• Global Supply Chain (GSC)
• Mission Assurance (MA)
• Production
• Business Management
• Various support functions

The SMT Program Manager will perform the following:

• Supports and monitors technical performance baselines while comparing key subcontract technical performance measures, assesses execution status, and takes appropriate action to maintain conformance with the baseline
• Identifies and addresses impacts through a systematic and proactive approach to Risk and Opportunity Management
• Communicates, monitors, and promptly resolves issues across all functional elements within the SMT, including the supplier
• Manages and balances communications with stakeholders through organized and disciplined processes ensuring that Subcontract information is defined, collected, shared, understood, stored, and retrieved in a manner that effectively meets Subcontract and stakeholder needs while protecting the company's contractual rights
• Effectively plans, defines, establishes, communicates, monitors, and controls subcontractor scope to ensure that all of the work required and only the work required, is performed. Analyzes changes to balance technical, cost, schedule, quality requirements and develops alternatives that address program needs and expectations.
• Addresses subcontract uncertainty through an organized and analytical forward-looking approach that identifies risks and opportunities, determines appropriate handling, manages, and communicates risks and opportunities throughout the life cycle of the Subcontract
• Oversee and provide financial control and maintenance of budgets including EVMS metrics (specifically IPMDAR evaluation and reviewing leading/lagging metrics and how they can be applied to performance management) and Variance Explanations as a Control Account Manager for your supplier
• Prepares higher level management briefings and develops mechanisms for monitoring project progress and tools for intervention and problem solving with project managers, line managers, and customers
• Interprets schedules from suppliers to understand impact on program schedule and milestones
• Key leader in developing and reviewing Supplier Statements of Work (SSOWs)
• Develops and maintains Requests for Proposals (RFPs)
• Reviews supplier proposal responses, including performing technical evaluations, reviewing supplier Basis of Estimates (BOEs), overall proposal quality reviews, and attending proposal related reviews

As a full-time employee of Northrop Grumman Defense Systems, you are eligible for our robust benefits package including:

• Medical, Dental & Vision coverage
• 401k
• Educational Assistance
• Life Insurance
• Employee Assistance Programs & Work/Life Solutions
• Paid Time Off
• Health & Wellness Resources
• Employee Discounts

This positions 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. This role may offer a competitive relocation assistance package.

You’ll Bring These Qualification s:

• Bachelor's degree with 8 years of related experience or masters with 6 years of experience or an additional 4 years of related experience in lieu of degree
• 3 years working with Training systems
• Active U.S. Government Secret security clearance within scope with and the ability to obtain and maintain Special Access Program (SAP)
• Experience supporting U.S. Government contra