2027 Associate Supply Chain Planning Specialist - Pathways Program - Baltimore MD
for headings: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule.
We must not repeat job title as heading. No Job ID etc. Remove boilerplate.
We need to preserve substantive info: description paragraphs, relocation assistance, clearance required, travel, etc. Also responsibilities list, basic qualifications, preferred qualifications, salary range.
We need to decide sections: About the role (description), Responsibilities (list), Requirements (maybe basic qualifications?), Qualifications (maybe preferred?), Skills (maybe exposure to tools), Benefits (relocation assistance?), Pay (salary range), Schedule (travel? maybe travel 10% of time). However schedule is about work schedule; travel could be considered schedule? The instruction: include a section ONLY when posting has real, specific content for it. So we can include Travel under Schedule? The heading is Schedule, but we have travel percentage. Could treat as Schedule (travel). Might be okay.
We must not create sections with filler like "commensurate with experience". We have salary range specific, so Pay section ok. Benefits: relocation assistance mentioned, so Benefits section ok. Schedule: travel 10% of time, so Schedule section ok.
Qualifications: we have Basic Qualifications and Preferred Qualifications. Could combine into Requirements and Qualifications? The instruction: Use headings for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). So we can have Requirements (basic qualifications) and Qualifications (preferred). Skills: exposure to Power BI, Tableau, SAP, Microsoft Office, Excel formulas, pivot tables, PowerPoint. So Skills section.
Now we need to output HTML fragment only, no or . Use headings, - for lists,
for prose.
We must preserve all substantive info, not invent or summarize away detail. So we need to include description paragraphs exactly as given? We can keep them but maybe trim redundant sentences? Must preserve all substantive information; we can keep the same content but can rephrase? Probably better to keep as is but ensure not to lose info.
Let's extract:
- Relocation assistance: "Relocation assistance may be available"
- Clearance required for start: No
- Clearance type: Secret
- Travel: Yes, 10% of the Time
Description paragraph: "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 is a trusted provider of mission-enabling solutions for global security. We have a wide portfolio of secure, affordable, integrated, and multi-domain systems and technologies. Our differentiated battle management and cyber solutions deliver timely, mission-enabling information and provide superior situational awareness and understanding to protect the U.S. and its global allies. Entry Level opportunities at Northrop Grumman are unique. Are you interested in boosting your knowledge through experience and exposure, while supporting a mission that seeks to protect our nation and its allies? If so, then Northrop Grumman is the place you! Our professionals live and breathe different perspectives; we are curious about the world, accepting each other, and aware that the more ideas, backgrounds, opinions and experiences we bring to our work, the stronger that work will be. Just as you would invest your time and hard work into our company, we focus on investing back into you through enriching professional experiences and high-quality learning and development opportunities. We want you to bring your whole self to work, and for you to have meaningful connections with your coworkers, customers and communities, while providing the best products, systems and technologies to protect our world. Northrop Grumman is seeking an Associate PATHWAYS Supply Chain Planning Specialist . This position will be located at our Mission Systems sector in Baltimore, MD. This position will be in the Pathways rotational program where there will be three rotation opportunities within global supply chain. The qualified candidate will become part of Northrop Grumman’s Mission Systems Global Supply Chain organization. Rotations within the program may be aligned to core areas of Global Supply Chain such as procurement, program planning, supplier quality and other related work scopes."
Then "Roles And Responsibilities" heading then list of responsibilities for Procurement Pathways Role & Responsibilities and Program Planner Pathways Role and Responsibilities. Need to combine into a list? The instruction: Use
- for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. So we should create a list of duties. The responsibilities are described in paragraphs with colon and semicolons. We could break each bullet into separate
- . Must preserve all substantive information; we can split into items.
Let's extract responsibilities:
Procurement Pathways Role & Responsibilities:
- Creation of a standard material purchase order (SMAT) in SAP.
- Understand the basic steps to create and issue a Request for Quotation (RFQ) using SAP.
- Reviewing supplier quotations and conducting pricing negotiations.
- Perform basic price analysis.
- Maintaining documentation using the eFile system and requirements.
- Navigating PrOP to include the understanding of procedures used on all purchase orders.
- How to release a purchase order in SAP.
- How to implement a purchase order change order.
- How to access and manage buyer purchase requisition work queue.
- How to use Ariba and Onboard a new supplier.
- Understand the general procurement timeline and steps to complete PO release within 30 day cycle time.
- Learn organizational skills required to manage work queue.
Program Planner Pathways Role and Responsibilities:
- Acting as supplier lead for Non-Category Management suppliers and involved in status meetings, expediting material, and issue resolution.
- Participating in Program Meetings and other functional meetings concerning the Program, including Page and Lines
- Creating requisitions for Program and NGMS material through the M903/M922 process
- Tracking Program related KPI Metrics, e.g., Late to Release Reqs., On-Time delivery to MRP, etc.
- Supporting CAMs with procurement activities, including req. releases, quote and negotiation activities, and procurement documentation
- Supporting smaller Proposals and creating BOEs for those proposals
- Supporting continuous improvement projects
We need to preserve all; we can combine into one list under Responsibilities.
Now Basic Qualifications:
- Be completing or has completed their degree (Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD) from an accredited institution
- Be majoring in or having majored in Supply Chain Management, Engineering, Business Administration, Operations Management, Finance, or related field.
- Be able to obtain a U.S. Government security clearance (U.S. citizenship is a pre-requisite)
- The ability to obtain Special Access Program within a reasonable period of time, as determined by the company to meet its business needs
Preferred Qualifications:
- Have an overall cumulative GPA of 3.00/4.0 or higher
- Previous internship/co-op or other work experience, leadership & teamwork, capabilities, interpersonal communication skills, and activities (professional/community/extracurricular)
- Exposure or experience with Power BI, Tableau, SAP, and Microsoft Office skills, including Excel formulas, pivot tables and PowerPoint.
Salary Range: $60,200 to $90,200
Relocation assistance: may be available.
Travel: Yes, 10% of the Time.
Clearance: Secret, but clearance required for start: No (so clearance not required to start but type Secret). Might be relevant but not a section.
We need to include Benefits section: relocation assistance maybe also other benefits? Only relocation assistance mentioned.
Skills section: exposure to Power BI, Tableau, SAP, Microsoft Office, Excel formulas, pivot tables, PowerPoint.
Schedule section: travel 10% of time.
Now we need to ensure we don't include boilerplate like EEO, equal opportunity, application period, etc. Remove those.
Also remove "campusjobs", "The application period for the job is estimated to be 20 days..." etc.
Now produce HTML:
About the role
... description ...
Responsibilities
- Creation of a standard material purchase order (SMAT) in SAP.
- Understand the basic steps to create and issue a Request for Quotation (RFQ) using SAP.
- Reviewing supplier quotations and conducting pricing negotiations.
- Perform basic price analysis.
- Maintaining documentation using the eFile system and requirements.
- Navigating PrOP to include the understanding of procedures used on all purchase orders.
- How to release a purchase order in SAP.
- How to implement a purchase order change order.
- How to access and manage buyer purchase requisition work queue.
- How to use Ariba and Onboard a new supplier.
- Understand the general procurement timeline and steps to complete PO release within 30 day cycle time.
- Learn organizational skills required to manage work queue.
- Acting as supplier lead for Non-Category Management suppliers and involved in status meetings, expediting material, and issue resolution.
- Participating in Program Meetings and other functional meetings concerning the Program, including Page and Lines
- Creating requisitions for Program and NGMS material through the M903/M922 process
- Tracking Program related KPI Metrics, e.g., Late to Release Reqs., On-Time delivery to MRP, etc.
- Supporting CAMs with procurement activities, including req. releases, quote and negotiation activities, and procurement documentation
- Supporting smaller Proposals and creating BOEs for those proposals
- Supporting continuous improvement projects
Requirements
- Be completing or has completed their degree (Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD) from an accredited institution
- Be majoring in or having majored in Supply Chain Management, Engineering, Business Administration, Operations Management, Finance, or related field.
- Be able to obtain a U.S. Government security clearance (U.S. citizenship is a pre-requisite)
- The ability to obtain Special Access Program within a reasonable period of time, as determined by the company to meet its business needs
Qualifications
- Have an overall cumulative GPA of 3.00/4.0 or higher
- Previous internship/co-op or other work experience, leadership & teamwork, capabilities, interpersonal communication skills, and activities (professional/community/extracurricular)
- Exposure or experience with Power BI, Tableau, SAP, and Microsoft Office skills, including Excel formulas, pivot tables and PowerPoint.
Skills
Exposure or experience with Power BI, Tableau, SAP, and Microsoft Office skills, including Excel formulas, pivot tables and PowerPoint.
But note Skills duplicates Preferred Qualifications content; maybe we should not duplicate. The instruction: Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones. Could combine Preferred Qualifications into Skills? But we already have Qualifications for preferred. Skills could be separate for technical skills. However Preferred Qualifications includes GPA, experience, leadership, and exposure to tools. Skills section could just be the technical tools. But we risk duplication. Perhaps better to have
- for lists,
for prose. We must preserve all substantive info, not invent or summarize away detail. So we need to include description paragraphs exactly as given? We can keep them but maybe trim redundant sentences? Must preserve all substantive information; we can keep the same content but can rephrase? Probably better to keep as is but ensure not to lose info. Let's extract: - Relocation assistance: "Relocation assistance may be available" - Clearance required for start: No - Clearance type: Secret - Travel: Yes, 10% of the Time Description paragraph: "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 is a trusted provider of mission-enabling solutions for global security. We have a wide portfolio of secure, affordable, integrated, and multi-domain systems and technologies. Our differentiated battle management and cyber solutions deliver timely, mission-enabling information and provide superior situational awareness and understanding to protect the U.S. and its global allies. Entry Level opportunities at Northrop Grumman are unique. Are you interested in boosting your knowledge through experience and exposure, while supporting a mission that seeks to protect our nation and its allies? If so, then Northrop Grumman is the place you! Our professionals live and breathe different perspectives; we are curious about the world, accepting each other, and aware that the more ideas, backgrounds, opinions and experiences we bring to our work, the stronger that work will be. Just as you would invest your time and hard work into our company, we focus on investing back into you through enriching professional experiences and high-quality learning and development opportunities. We want you to bring your whole self to work, and for you to have meaningful connections with your coworkers, customers and communities, while providing the best products, systems and technologies to protect our world. Northrop Grumman is seeking an Associate PATHWAYS Supply Chain Planning Specialist . This position will be located at our Mission Systems sector in Baltimore, MD. This position will be in the Pathways rotational program where there will be three rotation opportunities within global supply chain. The qualified candidate will become part of Northrop Grumman’s Mission Systems Global Supply Chain organization. Rotations within the program may be aligned to core areas of Global Supply Chain such as procurement, program planning, supplier quality and other related work scopes." Then "Roles And Responsibilities" heading then list of responsibilities for Procurement Pathways Role & Responsibilities and Program Planner Pathways Role and Responsibilities. Need to combine into a list? The instruction: Use
- for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. So we should create a list of duties. The responsibilities are described in paragraphs with colon and semicolons. We could break each bullet into separate
- . Must preserve all substantive information; we can split into items.
Let's extract responsibilities:
Procurement Pathways Role & Responsibilities:
- Creation of a standard material purchase order (SMAT) in SAP.
- Understand the basic steps to create and issue a Request for Quotation (RFQ) using SAP.
- Reviewing supplier quotations and conducting pricing negotiations.
- Perform basic price analysis.
- Maintaining documentation using the eFile system and requirements.
- Navigating PrOP to include the understanding of procedures used on all purchase orders.
- How to release a purchase order in SAP.
- How to implement a purchase order change order.
- How to access and manage buyer purchase requisition work queue.
- How to use Ariba and Onboard a new supplier.
- Understand the general procurement timeline and steps to complete PO release within 30 day cycle time.
- Learn organizational skills required to manage work queue.
Program Planner Pathways Role and Responsibilities:
- Acting as supplier lead for Non-Category Management suppliers and involved in status meetings, expediting material, and issue resolution.
- Participating in Program Meetings and other functional meetings concerning the Program, including Page and Lines
- Creating requisitions for Program and NGMS material through the M903/M922 process
- Tracking Program related KPI Metrics, e.g., Late to Release Reqs., On-Time delivery to MRP, etc.
- Supporting CAMs with procurement activities, including req. releases, quote and negotiation activities, and procurement documentation
- Supporting smaller Proposals and creating BOEs for those proposals
- Supporting continuous improvement projects
We need to preserve all; we can combine into one list under Responsibilities.
Now Basic Qualifications:
- Be completing or has completed their degree (Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD) from an accredited institution
- Be majoring in or having majored in Supply Chain Management, Engineering, Business Administration, Operations Management, Finance, or related field.
- Be able to obtain a U.S. Government security clearance (U.S. citizenship is a pre-requisite)
- The ability to obtain Special Access Program within a reasonable period of time, as determined by the company to meet its business needs
Preferred Qualifications:
- Have an overall cumulative GPA of 3.00/4.0 or higher
- Previous internship/co-op or other work experience, leadership & teamwork, capabilities, interpersonal communication skills, and activities (professional/community/extracurricular)
- Exposure or experience with Power BI, Tableau, SAP, and Microsoft Office skills, including Excel formulas, pivot tables and PowerPoint.
Salary Range: $60,200 to $90,200
Relocation assistance: may be available.
Travel: Yes, 10% of the Time.
Clearance: Secret, but clearance required for start: No (so clearance not required to start but type Secret). Might be relevant but not a section.
We need to include Benefits section: relocation assistance maybe also other benefits? Only relocation assistance mentioned.
Skills section: exposure to Power BI, Tableau, SAP, Microsoft Office, Excel formulas, pivot tables, PowerPoint.
Schedule section: travel 10% of time.
Now we need to ensure we don't include boilerplate like EEO, equal opportunity, application period, etc. Remove those.
Also remove "campusjobs", "The application period for the job is estimated to be 20 days..." etc.
Now produce HTML:
About the role
... description ...
Responsibilities
- Creation of a standard material purchase order (SMAT) in SAP.
- Understand the basic steps to create and issue a Request for Quotation (RFQ) using SAP.
- Reviewing supplier quotations and conducting pricing negotiations.
- Perform basic price analysis.
- Maintaining documentation using the eFile system and requirements.
- Navigating PrOP to include the understanding of procedures used on all purchase orders.
- How to release a purchase order in SAP.
- How to implement a purchase order change order.
- How to access and manage buyer purchase requisition work queue.
- How to use Ariba and Onboard a new supplier.
- Understand the general procurement timeline and steps to complete PO release within 30 day cycle time.
- Learn organizational skills required to manage work queue.
- Acting as supplier lead for Non-Category Management suppliers and involved in status meetings, expediting material, and issue resolution.
- Participating in Program Meetings and other functional meetings concerning the Program, including Page and Lines
- Creating requisitions for Program and NGMS material through the M903/M922 process
- Tracking Program related KPI Metrics, e.g., Late to Release Reqs., On-Time delivery to MRP, etc.
- Supporting CAMs with procurement activities, including req. releases, quote and negotiation activities, and procurement documentation
- Supporting smaller Proposals and creating BOEs for those proposals
- Supporting continuous improvement projects
Requirements
- Be completing or has completed their degree (Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD) from an accredited institution
- Be majoring in or having majored in Supply Chain Management, Engineering, Business Administration, Operations Management, Finance, or related field.
- Be able to obtain a U.S. Government security clearance (U.S. citizenship is a pre-requisite)
- The ability to obtain Special Access Program within a reasonable period of time, as determined by the company to meet its business needs
Qualifications
- Have an overall cumulative GPA of 3.00/4.0 or higher
- Previous internship/co-op or other work experience, leadership & teamwork, capabilities, interpersonal communication skills, and activities (professional/community/extracurricular)
- Exposure or experience with Power BI, Tableau, SAP, and Microsoft Office skills, including Excel formulas, pivot tables and PowerPoint.
Skills
Exposure or experience with Power BI, Tableau, SAP, and Microsoft Office skills, including Excel formulas, pivot tables and PowerPoint.
But note Skills duplicates Preferred Qualifications content; maybe we should not duplicate. The instruction: Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones. Could combine Preferred Qualifications into Skills? But we already have Qualifications for preferred. Skills could be separate for technical skills. However Preferred Qualifications includes GPA, experience, leadership, and exposure to tools. Skills section could just be the technical tools. But we risk duplication. Perhaps better to have