Principal Supply Chain Planning Specialist

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: No relocation assistance available

CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: No

CLEARANCE TYPE: Secret

TRAVEL: Yes, 10% of the TimeDescription

At Northrop Grumman, our employees have incredible opportunities to work on revolutionary systems that impact people's lives around the world today, and for generations to come. Our pioneering and inventive spirit has enabled us to be at the forefront of many technological advancements in our nation's history - from the first flight across the Atlantic Ocean, to stealth bombers, to landing on the moon. We look for people who have bold new ideas, courage and a pioneering spirit to join forces to invent the future, and have fun along the way. Our culture thrives on intellectual curiosity, cognitive diversity and bringing your whole self to work — and we have an insatiable drive to do what others think is impossible. Our employees are not only part of history, they're making history.

Northrop Grumman Mission Systems has an opening for a Principal Supply Chain Planning Specialist to join our team of qualified and diverse individuals in our Linthicum, MD location supporting the Maritime Electronic & Information Warfare (MEIW) Operating Unit under the  Land & Maritime Sensors (LMS) Business Unit.  We are looking for a data-driven Planning Specialist supporting the Global Supply Chain (GSC) organization to coordinate and execute assigned tasks within established constraints, while also being flexible to ever evolving program requirements.  

This is an incredible opportunity for an individual to work hand-in-hand with Program Managers, Contracts/Subcontracts, Operations, Business Management, Quality and Engineering!  The selected individual should thrive in a fast-paced work environment with high expectations, significantly diverse assignments, collaborative team settings across all levels and perform with limited management oversight.

What you'll get to do:

- Develop supply chain strategy and leads activities for GSC in all phases of the Northrop Grumman Business Acquisition Process (BAP), working with program team members from requirements establishment through final material deliveries

- Responsible for the assessment of supply resources; aggregates and prioritizes demand requirements; plans inventory, distribution requirements, production, material and rough-cut capacity for all products

- Contribute to the management of GSC scope for multifaceted program(s), proposal through close-out; coordinates interdepartmental activity, facilitates internal/external team communication, coordinates with Suppliers, and integrates efforts across all GSC functions

- Support supply chain execution and is accountable for horizontal and vertical integration, resource planning, material cost, forecasting, schedule performance, risk/opportunity and issue management, supplier performance, and issue resolution

- Analyze and aggregate supply / demand requirements

- Analyze purchase material supply/demand position using Material Requirements Planning (MRP) tools. 

- Plan inventory levels based on dependent and independent Bill-of-Materials (BOM) requirements 

- Create/reduce supply requirements based on inventory adjustments

- Participate in long-term capacity and resource planning to ensure proper scheduling of new product line phase-ins as well as existing product line phase-outs.

- Create/release requisitions 

- Receive/review requirements for non-standard parts 

- Analyze lead times and identifies critical path procurements

- Regularly brief the GSC Program Management team and program leadership on GSC activity status and issues affecting program performance:  Cost, risks and opportunities, and schedule

- Perform Control Account Management (CAM) duties in support of assigned programs that includes contributing to and reviewing Cost/Schedule actuals against plan, contribute to material requirements baselining, and working with Business Management stakeholders to provide variance analysis and get-well plans

- Serve as liaison between Receiving/Inspection teams and GSC Planning to address material deliveries that cannot be fully processed due to missing documents, POCs, etc.

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Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree and a minimum of 5 years experience in Supply Chain, Procurement, and/or Program GSC experience; Masters degree and a minimum of 3 years experience in Supply Chain, Procurement, and/or Program GSC experience
• Experience working in SAP
• Experience managing suppliers
• Ability to travel 25% of the time
• U.S. Citizenship 
• Ability to obtain and maintain a secret Clearance  

Preferred Qualifications:

• ASCM/APICS Supply Chain Certification
• Six Sigma or Lean certifications
• Previous Proposal experience
• Previous CAM experience
• PMP trained or certified
• Experience with program management, manufacturing, or quality assurance.
• Current active DOD Secret Clearance

Primary Level Salary Range: $89,900.00 - $134,900.00

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.