Sr Principal Procurement Analyst

Northrop Grumman Northrop Grumman · Aerospace · MA +3 · 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 significant experience in government purchasing and subcontracting, with a Bachelor's degree and 8 years of relevant experience or equivalent experience.

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 in supply chain management, business, finance, or related field and 8 years of relevant experience (master’s with 6 years) in purchasing, subcontracts, or contracts. Or in lieu of a degree, 12 years of relevant experience in Purchasing, Subcontracts, or Contracts.
  • government purchasing/subcontracting experience
  • Experience in an MRP system, SAP, Costpoint, or Oracle

Nice to have

  • Master’s degree in business or supply chain.
  • Experience in large dollar, complex purchases including subcontracts and long-term agreements.
  • Experience procuring in an NPI/concurrent engineering environment.
  • Experience in machining, forgings, extrusions, electrical or raw material commodities.
  • Experience leading negotiations with suppliers.
  • Experience writing price analysis and/or cost analysis.

What the JD emphasized

  • FAR/DFAR requirements
  • government purchasing/subcontracting experience