Staff Supply Chain Planning Specialist

Northrop Grumman Northrop Grumman · Aerospace · Linthicum Heights, MD +1 · Global Supply Chain Mult-Func

Staff Supply Chain Planning Specialist role at Northrop Grumman, focusing on proposal efforts, material strategy, cost/performance management, and Earned Value Management within a defense context. Requires experience in supply chain, FAR/DFARS compliance, and advanced Excel skills. Security clearance is mandatory.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead quick-turn, complex proposal efforts; ensure compliant submissions and support peers and program teams with proposal guidance.
  2. Serve as the GSC program planning and financial forecasting SME; define and execute material strategy aligned to program objectives.
  3. Provide hands-on leadership by delivering team training, mentoring planners, serving as team lead, and briefing leadership clearly and confidently.
  4. Own material cost/performance management by forecasting, tracking, and reporting using enterprise tools (e.g., Material Receipt Tool, CMEs, IPRS, RTG) and providing training/support to peers.
  5. Perform CAM responsibilities and manage Earned Value (EV) to plan.

Skills

Required

  • Supply chain management
  • Subcontracts
  • Supplier management
  • Procurement
  • Project management
  • Supply chain proposal activities
  • FAR compliance
  • DFARS compliance
  • MS Office Suite
  • Advanced Excel skills
  • U.S. citizenship
  • Government Secret security clearance

Nice to have

  • Earned Value Management (EVM)
  • Return to Green
  • Material forecasting
  • Variance analysis
  • SAP
  • MES
  • MRP tools
  • Material Cost Account Visibility (MCAV)
  • WEBI Replenishments
  • Cognos
  • People leadership
  • Team-wide training programs
  • CAM experience
  • CAM certification
  • Active Secret and/or Top Secret security clearance

What the JD emphasized

  • Secret security clearance
  • FAR and DFARS compliance
  • regulated-industry compliance protocols