Manager Programs 3

Northrop Grumman Northrop Grumman · Aerospace · Baltimore, MD +1 · Program Management (P&L)

Program Manager 3 at Northrop Grumman, supporting Advanced Systems Operating Unit within Advanced Mission Capabilities Business Unit. The role involves leadership of an EMD Program, focusing on managing program cost, schedule, and technical performance, stakeholder engagement, resource allocation, and customer relationship management. Requires a Bachelor's degree with 8 years of experience or Master's with 6 years, and a Secret clearance.

What you'd actually do

  1. Forge and sustain strategic partnerships with cross‑functional teams, driving program cost, schedule, and technical performance targets within a matrixed organization.
  2. Define, track, and enforce program milestones, maintaining master schedules, managing risks and opportunities, and swiftly resolving complex issues that threaten delivery.
  3. Strategically allocate and optimize program resources, overseeing workforce planning, talent acquisition, and skill‑gap mitigation to ensure peak productivity.
  4. Lead comprehensive stakeholder engagement both internally and with customers, guaranteeing alignment, transparency, and sustained support throughout the program lifecycle.
  5. Deliver compelling executive‑level briefings to senior leaders, customers, and key stakeholders, translating technical data into decisive, action‑oriented insights.

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor's degree with 8 years of relevant experience, or Master's degree with 6 years' of relevant experience, supporting U.S. Government contracts and customers.
  • Demonstrated experience managing program performance using key performance indicators (KPIs), program metrics, cost, schedule, and technical performance measures.
  • Demonstrated experience with profit and loss (P&L), responsibility, including management of program budgets, forecasts, revenue, and financial performance.
  • Demonstrate at experience leading cross, functional and matrix teams in a program, project, or operational environment.
  • Demonstrated experience leading programs, projects, or business operations in a matrix organization with responsibility for team performance and execution.
  • Demonstrated experience serving with primary customer interface for government, commercial, or internal stakeholders.
  • Demonstrated experience leading or supporting U.S. government programs, contracts, or acquisitions.
  • demonstrated experience preparing and delivering briefings, program reviews, all status presentations to senior leaders, executives, customers, or government stakeholders
  • U.S. citizenship required.
  • A current/active U.S. government Secret clearance to be considered and the ability to obtain and maintain any required special‑access clearances.

Nice to have

  • Master's degree in Engineering, Business Administration, or a related technical field.
  • Minimum 3 years experience managing programs through one or more lifecycles phases, including Science & Technology (S&T), Engineering and Manufacturing Development (EMD), Production, and/or Sustainment.
  • Demonstrated experience leading or supporting competitive proposal efforts for U.S. Government or DoD customers, including proposal development, capture activities, and/or bid submissions.
  • Demonstrated experience serving as a Program Manager, Deputy Program Manager, Deputy Program Manager, IPT Lead, or Technical Lead for RF, sensor, radar, electronic warfare (EW), or related subsystem development programs.

What the JD emphasized

  • Secret clearance