CIDO Business Strategy Lead

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: No relocation assistance available

CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: No

CLEARANCE TYPE: Secret

TRAVEL: Yes, 10% of the TimeDescription

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Northrop Grumman’s Corporate Sector Chief Information & Digital Office (CIDO) is seeking a Staff Business Process Analyst to serve as the CIDO Business Strategy Lead, defining strategic direction, priorities, and business framing for the Strategy and Architecture portfolio within the Governance & Strategy organization. This role serves as the senior strategy lane under the Head of Strategy and Architecture and helps ensure business priorities, transformation direction, investment framing, and decision logic are clearly established before architecture, operations, performance, and delivery execution move.

This role reports to the Head of Strategy and Architecture. The CIDO Business Strategy role is responsible for shaping strategic context, framing enterprise priorities, developing decision-ready options, and connecting leadership intent to business outcomes, operating-model implications, and transformation sequencing.

This role is a peer to the enterprise technical and enterprise business architecture leads rather than reporting through them. It is expected to partner closely with those architecture peers and with Ops & Performance Management while maintaining direct alignment to the Head of Strategy and Architecture.

The successful candidate will:

• Define strategic direction, business framing, and priority logic for the broader Strategy and Architecture portfolio.
• Shape decision-ready strategic options tied to enterprise outcomes, business drivers, operating-model choices, and transformation sequencing.
• Partner with enterprise technical architecture, enterprise business architecture, and ops/performance leaders to keep strategic direction aligned with architecture and execution realities.
• Support leadership decision-making through strategic analysis, briefing content, roadmap framing, and cross-functional prioritization.

This position will be available as a virtual telecommuter, however, the incumbent most be within 90 miles of a major Northrop Grumman location for ad hoc onsite meetings

Key Responsibilities:

• Serve as the CIDO Business Strategy lead within Strategy and Architecture.

• Translate enterprise context, leadership intent, business drivers, and transformation goals into coherent strategy framing for the portfolio.

• Develop strategic narratives, option analyses, and decision-ready materials that clarify priorities, trade-offs, sequencing, and expected outcomes.

• Help define portfolio priorities, transformation themes, and business-value framing across architecture, operations, analytics, and AI-readiness efforts.

• Partner with the Enterprise Technical Architecture Lead, Enterprise Business Architecture Lead, and Ops & Performance Management to align strategy, architecture direction, governance, and measurable execution outcomes.

• Clarify how enterprise strategy choices affect operating model, business capability priorities, investment focus, modernization timing, and leadership decision thresholds.

• Support executive and stakeholder decision-making by framing strategic implications, business rationale, dependencies, risks, and organizational impacts.

• Develop and maintain repeatable strategy artifacts, including strategic summaries, roadmap framing, issue papers, briefing content, and decision-support packages.

• Identify where strategy, business priorities, architecture direction, and performance measures are drifting out of alignment and recommend corrective framing.

• Represent the strategy lane in senior leadership discussions, planning forums, and transformation working sessions.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Strategy, Finance, Information Systems, or related field and 12+ years of relevant experience, or a Master’s degree with 10+ years, or a PhD with 8+ years.
• Candidates must have the ability to obtain, and maintain, a U.S. Government Secret level security clearance as a condition of continued employment.
• Demonstrated experience in business strategy, enterprise planning, IT/Business strategic analysis, transformation planning, chief-of-staff, business management, or closely related roles.
• Strong ability to frame business priorities, strategic options, operating-model implications, and transformation trade-offs for senior leaders.
• Experience developing executive-ready decision materials, strategic roadmaps, briefing content, or enterprise planning artifacts.
• Demonstrated ability to work across business and technical stakeholders and connect strategy to architecture, execution, and measurable outcomes.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including facilitation, synthesis, and executive-level communication.
• Experience leading enterprise or functional strategy development and execution in large matrixed organizations.
• Strong executive presence and the ability to turn ambiguity into structured decisions, options, and action paths.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience supporting IT/Digital strategy, governance, transformation, or planning functions in a large enterprise environment/regulated industry.
• Experience in defense, aerospace, federal, or other regulated environments.
• Experience working with enterprise architecture, operating-model design, modernization planning, or portfolio governance functions.
• Experience shaping cross-functional priorities that span business, technology, analytics, and performance-management stakeholders.
• Experience producing board-, vice-president-, or executive-staff-level strategic materials.
• Exposure to enterprise architecture

We offer flexible work arrangements, phenomenal learning opportunities, exposure to a wide variety of projects and customers, and a very friendly team environment.  At Northrop Grumman, we are on the cutting edge of innovation.  Our diverse portfolio of programs means there are endless paths to cultivating your career.  We also offer exceptional benefits/healthcare, a 9/80 work schedule option, and a great 401k matching program. Come join us!

Primary Level Salary Range: $146,300.00 - $219,500.00

The above salary range represents a general guideline; however, Northrop Grumman considers a number of factors when determining base salary offers such as the scope and responsibilities of the position and the candidate's experience, education, skills and current market conditions.

Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay. Annual bonuses are designed to reward individual contributions as well as allow employees to share in company results. Employees in Vice President or Director positions may be eligible for Long Term Incentives. In addition, Northrop Grumman provides a variety of benefits including health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, savings plan, Company paid holidays and paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business.

The application period for the job is estimated to be 20 days from the job posting date. However, this timeline may be shortened or extended depending on business needs and the availability of qualified candidates.

Northrop Grumman is an Equal Opportunity Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected class. For our complete EEO and pay transparency statement, please visit http://www.northropgrumman.com/EEO. U.S. Citizenship is required for all positions with a government clearance and certain other restricted positions.