Principal Business Operations Integration

Northrop Grumman; Baltimore (MD); On-site; USD 99,000 - 148,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Savings plan

Paid time off

Company holidays

Job summary

Northrop Grumman’s Mission Systems seeks a Principal Project Management Business Operations Analyst to join the LMS BU in Linthicum, MD on-site. You’ll drive data analysis, dashboarding, and financial reporting using SAP, SIMPL, Tableau, and SharePoint to optimize funding and project execution.

The role emphasizes cross‑functional collaboration, data integrity, and presentation of insights to leaders. US citizenship and the ability to obtain a DoD Secret clearance are required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree with 5+ years of relevant work experience, or a master's degree with 3 or more years.
• Experience producing reports, dashboards, or reconciliation summaries.
• Experience interpreting data trends, forecasting and providing actionable insights through written and verbal reporting.
• Experience coordinating project tasks, including planning, scheduling and tracking progress.
• Minimum of 1 year experience with SAP for financial reporting or project data management.
• Experience with Tableau or similar data visualization tools.
• US Citizenship required and ability to obtain DoD Secret clearance.

Responsibilities

• Perform data analysis to optimize tool usage (Salesforce, SIMPL, Tableau) and update dashboards.
• Provide strategic analysis of BU funding to produce actionable management info.
• Support continuous improvement and adoption of tools and practices.
• Prepare reviews and reports on project metrics to benchmark effectiveness.
• Assist division and BU to increase efficiency and reporting of execution metrics.
• Organize and prioritize tasks for multiple simultaneous projects.

Skills

Data analysis

Dashboarding

Forecasting

Project coordination

Communication

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's degree + 5+ years

Master's degree + 3+ years

Tools

SAP

Tableau

SIMPL

SharePoint

Salesforce

Job description

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: No relocation assistance available

CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: No

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 Mission Systems (NGMS) Multidomain Sensing, Targeting and Survivability (MSTS) seeks an innovative, high-energy, inquisitive, and self-motivated candidate to join our Land and Maritime Sensors (LMS) Business Unit (BU) team as a Project Management Business Operations Analyst on-site in Linthicum, MD. Integrates relationships between business units and central corporate functions to ensure success in meeting business and corporate goals and objectives. Identifies and facilitates resolution of operational issues. Acts as a liaison between corporate shared services and internal business units.

What You'll Get To Do:

• The selected candidate will perform data analysis to optimize use of tools such as Salesforce, SIMPL, Tableau with dashboard update of the business pipeline, Non-Contract Technical Activity (NCTA) and Capital management. They will also provide strategic analysis of Business Unit funding to produce actionable management information. They will support continuous improvement and driving adoption of tools and practices. They will be responsible for reviews and reports on project metrics to benchmark effectiveness and will work closely to ensure that tool data sets are accurately implemented, maintaining metrics, and other project management duties. Additional responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
• Provide assistance, service and support to division and business unit to increase efficiency, effectiveness and reporting of division program execution metrics
• Support Business Unit NCTA (Primary) and Capital Project (Back-Up) financial reporting and Division Resource Board (DRB) utilizing the RDIS/SIMPL and Tableau on-line tools
• Perform various operations support tasks as needed, such as recording meeting minutes and actions, generating reports and briefing slides, managing miscellaneous tools and submitting data through computer applications and tools
• Organize and prioritize tasking to successfully execute on multiple simultaneous projects
• Understanding pipeline/LRSP to ensure accurate NCTA funding and support business growth, analyze Salesforce data and update dashboards as needed
• Provides data management and analysis skills with working knowledge of Excel to represent data visually
• Supporting large data analytic projects including but not limited to pipeline reviews, pipeline sufficiency
• Principal/Sr. Principal Project Management ensure consistency in naming conventions and promotes the sharing and reuse of data across applications
• Independently demonstrates the skill and ability to perform fairly complex professional tasks
• May develop and deliver presentations

Basic Qualifications for the Principal Project Management Business Operations Analyst:

• Bachelor's degree with a minimum of 5 years of relevant work experience OR a master's degree and 3 or more years of relevant work experience.
• Experience producing reports, dashboards, or reconciliation summaries.
• Experience interpreting data trends, forecasting and providing actionable insights through written and verbal reporting.
• Experience coordinating project tasks, including planning, scheduling and tracking progress.
• Minimum of 1 year experience with SAP for financial reporting or project data management.
• Experience leading the performance of tasks on schedule, and achieving all requirements
• Minimum of 1 year experience utilizing dashboards or data visualizations in Tableau or similar data visualization tools.
• Advanced experience in Excel including pivot tables, VLOOKUP/XLOOKUP, filters, and basic data modeling experience.
• Minimum of 1 year experience with SharePoint for document management, permissions, uploading content, and maintaining organized folders for team use.
• US Citizenship required.
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a U.S. DoD Secret security clearance.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Active U.S. DoD Secret security clearance.
• Experience with Government acquisition models, budgeting process, and financial models
• Experience supporting Government contracts
• Minimum of 1 year experience with Salesforce or other CRM systems to enter track and retrieve customer or project related data.
• Minimum of 1 year experience developing dashboards or data visualizations in Tableau or similar data visualization tools.
• Experience managing communications with stakeholders through organized processes to ensure that information is defined, collected, shared, understood, stored and retrieved in a manner that effectively meets stakeholder needs
• Experience with SIMPL, Salesforce, SAP and Dashboards
• Experience with Microsoft Office suite of tools (including Excel and Teams)

The ideal candidate will possess a high level of attention to detail, producing error free reports and a high level of data integrity.

Primary Level Salary Range:

$98,900.00 - $148,300.00

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.