Program Manager 3 – Advanced Communications Programs

Job Description

Manager Programs 3 | Northrop Grumman

The Tone:
This is a full-time role at Northrop Grumman, located in Baltimore, MD. Northrop Grumman develops revolutionary systems that impact people’s lives globally today and for generations to come, from stealth bombers to landing on the moon. This role supports the Advanced Communications Apertures (ACA) Operating Unit, leading a high-visibility Engineering and Manufacturing Development (EMD) program crucial for next-generation technology, spanning the full lifecycle from capture through sustainment in a challenging environment.

The TL;DR
• Role: Program Management
• Type: Full-time
• Location: In-person, Baltimore, MD
• Pay: $184300–$276500 yearly
• Team: Reports to the Director of Programs within the Advanced Communications Apertures (ACA) Operating Unit.
• Mission: Lead a high-visibility EMD program within the ACA portfolio, driving its cost, schedule, and technical performance targets.

What You’ll Actually Do
• Partnerships: Forge and sustain strategic partnerships with cross-functional teams, driving program cost, schedule, and technical performance targets within a matrixed organization.
• Performance Management: Define, track, and enforce program milestones, maintain master schedules, manage risks and opportunities, and swiftly resolve complex issues that threaten delivery.
• Resource Optimization: Strategically allocate and optimize program resources, overseeing workforce planning, talent acquisition, and skill-gap mitigation to ensure peak productivity.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Lead comprehensive stakeholder engagement both internally and with customers, guaranteeing alignment, transparency, and sustained support throughout the program lifecycle.
• Executive Communication: Deliver compelling executive-level briefings to senior leaders, customers, and key stakeholders, translating technical data into decisive, action-oriented insights.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Bachelor’s degree with 8 years of relevant experience, or Master’s degree with 6 years of relevant experience, supporting U.S. Government contracts and customers.
• Experience: Demonstrated experience managing program performance using key performance indicators (KPIs), program metrics, cost, schedule, and technical performance measures, with profit and loss (P&L) responsibility. Demonstrated experience leading cross-functional and matrix teams in a program, project, or operational environment.
• Skills: Managing program budgets, forecasts, revenue, and financial performance; serving as the primary customer interface for government, commercial, or internal stakeholders; preparing and delivering briefings, program reviews, and status presentations to senior leaders, executives, customers, or government stakeholders; U.S. citizenship; current/active U.S. government Secret clearance with the ability to obtain and maintain any required special-access clearances.
• Bonus: Master’s degree in Engineering, Business Administration, or a related technical field; minimum 3 years experience managing programs through one or more lifecycles phases, including Science & Technology (S&T), Engineering and Manufacturing Development (EMD), Production, and/or Sustainment; demonstrated experience leading or supporting competitive proposal efforts for U.S. Government or DoD customers; demonstrated experience serving as a Program Manager, Deputy Program Manager, Operations Program Manager, IPT Lead, or Technical Lead for RF, sensor, radar, electronic warfare (EW), or related subsystem development programs.