Sr Principal Procurement Analyst

Northrop Grumman Northrop Grumman · Aerospace · San Diego, CA +4 · Source

This role is for a Sr. Principal Procurement Analyst at Northrop Grumman, focusing on managing pre-award and post-award subcontract activities, supplier evaluations, and ensuring compliance with government regulations (FAR/DFAR). It requires experience in government purchasing and using MRP systems.

What you'd actually do

  1. Manage all pre-award and post-award subcontract activities, including but not limited to onboarding suppliers, drafting RFPs and RFQs, analyzing bids and conducting negotiations, completing compliant purchase order/subcontract packages meeting FAR/DFAR requirements, managing subcontract performance, and closing out subcontracts.
  2. Conduct supplier evaluations and performance monitoring to ensure quality and reliability.
  3. Coordinate and collaborate with key internal stakeholders such as contracts, engineering, quality, planning, operations, programs, end-users, and others to finalize Statements of Work (SOWs), manage supplier performance, and draft various agreements like Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDAs) and Long-Term Purchasing Agreements (LTPAs).
  4. Ensure strict compliance with public laws, company policies, import/export regulations, flow-down clauses while upholding high standards of procurement integrity and ethical business practices.
  5. Continuously refine processes to improve efficiency, reduce costs, mitigate risks, and drive program success, while implementing strategies to optimize cost savings and reduce supplier-related risks.

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor’s degree and 8 years of relevant experience in supply chain, purchasing, subcontracts, or contracts (or 12 years without a degree)
  • Government purchasing/subcontracting experience
  • Experience in an MRP system, SAP, Costpoint, or Oracle
  • Supplier evaluations and performance monitoring
  • Pre-award and post-award subcontract management
  • RFP/RFQ drafting and bid analysis
  • Negotiation skills
  • Compliance with FAR/DFAR
  • Stakeholder coordination

Nice to have

  • Experience with NDAs and LTPAs
  • Process refinement for efficiency, cost reduction, and risk mitigation

What the JD emphasized

  • FAR/DFAR requirements
  • government purchasing/subcontracting experience