Senior Principal Supply Chain Planning Specialist

Northrop Grumman Space Sector is seeking a Senior Principal Supply Chain Planning Specialist level 4 to join our team in Baltimore, MD. FT remote work is not available.

Roles and responsibilities:

• Responsible for working with Program Management, Manufacturing and Engineering to load requirements into MRP to meet manufacturing and testing schedules per the Integrated Master Schedule

• Ensuring consistent Material Finance reporting on program material

• Responsible for working with other planners, engineers, and program representatives to forecast material costs.

• Responsible for creating a material baseline and working with Business Management to meet monthly Earned Value requirements, variance reporting, and Root cause and corrective actions.

• Responsible for providing Monthly Current Material Estimates at completions (CME’s)

• Forecast monthly material receipts to be input into COGNOS for financial planning

• Analyzes and aggregates supply/demand requirements to meet program needs

• 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

• Participates in make/buy process, long-term capacity and resource planning; product phase-in/phase-out, manufacturing ramp-up, end-of-life management and product-line management

• Analyzes and aggregates supply/demand requirements across programs in the Operating Unit

• Analyzes purchase material supply/demand position using Material Requirements Planning (MRP) tools

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

• Creates/reduces supply requirements based on inventory adjustments and anticipated attrition levels

• Participates 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

• Interfaces with Source process area regarding inventory levels, working capital and other areas as needed

• Communicate with suppliers for lead times, and delivery times. Actively resolves and communicates and works to resolve issues

• Receives/reviews requirements for non-standard parts

• Analyzes lead times and identifies critical path procurements

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree and 10 years of related experience; 8 years with a Master’s. In lieu of degree, 14 years of related experience may be considered

• Procurement experience in Government environment

• Ability to obtain a TS/SCI clearance

• Microsoft Skills

• Experience working with FAR/DFAR requirements

Preferred Qualifications:

• TS/SCI clearance

• Experience working with DOD customers

Northrop Grumman is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action 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/AA 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.