Principal/sr. Principal Project Management

Northrop Grumman Northrop Grumman · Aerospace · Rolling Meadows, IL +1 · Project Management (Non-P&L)

Project Management Business Operations Analyst role at Northrop Grumman focusing on data analysis, dashboard updates, and strategic analysis of business unit funding. The role supports continuous improvement and adoption of tools like Salesforce, SIMPL, and Tableau, and involves managing project metrics and financial reporting.

What you'd actually do

  1. 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.
  2. Provide strategic analysis of Business Unit funding to produce actionable management information.
  3. Support continuous improvement and driving adoption of tools and practices.
  4. 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.
  5. Provide assistance, service and support to division and business unit to increase efficiency, effectiveness and reporting of division program execution metrics

Skills

Required

  • 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.

What the JD emphasized

  • Secret clearance
  • US Citizenship required
  • Must be able to obtain and maintain a U.S. DoD Secret security clearance