Northrop Grumman F-35 Program has an opening for a Business Manager 3 of the Production portfolio to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals. This leadership position will be located in Redondo Beach, CA.
As a leader, you always act with integrity, and the highest ethical standards characterize everything you do. You enable your team to achieve predictable and balanced results, while satisfying the needs of internal and external partners. You treat all people with respect, and model personal growth and continuous development. You know how to build an inclusive environment that attracts, retains, and inspires a diverse and engage team. You create trusted and valued customer relationships and communicate effectively, so that people throughout the organization feel engaged and connected to their work. You deliver excellence, strive for continuous improvement, and respond vigorously to change. You ensure that your team has the information and tools needed to perform at their best. You demonstrate our committed pursuit of applying innovation to meet the requirements of our customer. You create and execute strategies that result in sustainable value creation that delivers measurable results. If this is YOU…keep reading!
Critical success factors for candidates will include a dynamic leadership presence, highly collaborative work style, the ability to anticipate problems, proactively deal with difficult situations and communicate appropriately with all levels of stakeholders. The candidate selected for this role must have strong organizational, problem-solving and closure skills, strong written and oral communications skills, and demonstrated interpersonal skills with different stakeholders and levels of professionals and management. Training in any of Northrop Grumman’s common process management tools is a plus.
The selected candidate will lead and have accountability for all Business Management activities supporting part of the overall Production OU of the F-35 Program. The selected candidate will be responsible for various critical business efforts that support the broader Production system such as, Special Tooling and Test Equipment (STATE), Flight Test Instrumentation (FTI) programs, Diminishing Manufacturing Sources (DMS), Engineering / Production Change Requests, Tooling Return / Reuse, and lead business integration of the largest subcontractor (Rheinmetall) that is co-producing the F-35 Center Fuselage in Germany as well as F-35 Sustaining Modeling EAC activities
This position requires strategic planning to support pursuits and captures including across various contract types. Responsibilities include development, monitoring and maintenance of Business Management processes, tools and procedures to manage contract business execution, earned value, capture of new business; oversight of Pre-RFP activities to contract definitization; oversight of cash collection; participate in generating and execution accountability of profitability and financial EACs; accountable for the Estimate-at-Complete (EAC), contract profitability assessments/reviews, and application of the Earned Value Management Systems (EVMS); participation in long range strategic planning process; and support to the Program/Business Area Rhythm (Program Management Meetings, Affordability, Risk Review, EAC Reviews). Coordinate activities between Contracts, Cost/Schedule, Finance, and Pricing functional groups.
Basic Qualifications
- Must either have a bachelor’s Degree and 10 years business experience leading highly engaged and effective teams, or a masters degree and 8 years business experience leading highly engaged and effective teams or a PhD and 6 years business experience leading highly engaged and effective teams
- Must have minimum 4 years of experience in one or more of the following areas: Program Financial Planning & Control, DoD Contracts, or Government Cost Accounting Standards
- Proven ability to collaborate in a productive, strategic, and positive manner across multiple teams and various functions
- Ability to travel up to 10% of the time
- Must have the ability to obtain and maintain a Secret clearance within a reasonable amount of time as determined by business needs
Preferred Qualifications
- A current active Secret level security clearance
- MBA
- Experience in presenting financial data to senior leadership
- Demonstrated success in developing and leading functional and cross functional teams
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