Senior Human Resources Director 2

Relocation assistance may be available. Travel required: 50% of the time.

About the role

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. 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.

Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems is seeking a Senior Human Resources (HR) Director in Palmdale, California, El Segundo, California, or Melbourne, Florida to provide leadership in support of our sector functions (Business Management, Global Supply Chain, Mission Assurance/Quality, Security, Strategy and Growth, and Communications). This role will report to the Aeronautics Systems Human Resources Vice President and serve as a member of the sector’s HR senior leadership team, leading a geographically dispersed team of HR managers and HR business partners. Northrop Grumman was recently recognized on HRO Today’s Top 100 HR Teams.

The Senior HR Director serves as a strategic business partner providing day-to-day partnership and support to the sector functions Executive Vice Presidents, as well as their senior leadership teams in the accomplishment of business objectives. The primary function of the role is to be a strategic partner and consultant to the functional organizations and develop and execute a human capital strategy designed to attract, engage, develop, and retain the talent necessary to meet current and future state strategic goals, including significant organizational scaling and evolution.

Responsibilities

• Act as a trusted advisor to functional senior leadership – influence to optimize collaboration and ownership of functional and sector objectives.
• Provide strategic thought leadership, organizational, and project management skills in a high-paced environment.
• Leverage data and analytics to drive business outcomes.
• Make sound decisions with urgency that require evaluation of alternatives, including under conditions of uncertainty or where little precedent exists.
• Interpret, execute, and recommend modifications to processes, policies, and practices.
• Implement HR strategies and initiatives aligned to programmatic and functional business objectives.
• Provide strategic leadership and oversight to design and orchestrate strategies supporting significant scaling and evolution of these functions; spanning culture work, organization design and effectiveness, talent acquisition, and leadership development.
• Leverage data insights and trends to identify functional business challenges; proactively partnering with/influencing leadership to strategize on business solutions; developing and leading planning, design, implementation, communication, and delivery of high-impact HR initiatives across the functions and in partnership with peer HR Business Leaders.
• Strengthen capabilities, empowerment, and accountability among the functional HR team to provide best-in-class HR partnership and thought leadership.
• Partner with leadership to:
  • Create organization design structures and operating models to enable optimal functional support, driving the success of the business and maximizing employee performance and engagement.
  • Develop talent management, succession planning, and talent review strategies/cadence to bolster technical/functional leadership talent capability and strengthen the talent pipeline.
  • Identify strategies to drive employee performance, engagement, and retention, leveraging total rewards, company mission and values, best-in-class culture, career development, and employee flexibility.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree with at least 12 years of HR or related experience – OR – a Master's degree with at least 10 years of HR or related experience.
• Experience managing and leading teams; strong people leader and manager with a focus on inspiring/enabling an inclusive, development-focused, and high-performance culture.
• Strong collaborator and relationship-builder; keen ability to influence, coach, and consult with multiple senior executives concurrently.
• Experience and focus on proactively identifying trends, risks, and opportunities, regularly advocating for improvements.
• Excellent business acumen; leveraging HR processes, tools, and data/data analytics to accelerate business results, enhancing business and employee growth, and the employee experience.
• Strong change management experience, problem-solving skills, and the ability to be flexible and adaptable.
• Proven ability to lead complex cross-functional projects to completion.
• Executive-level verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government Secret security clearance and program special access as a condition of continued employment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Current U.S. Government Secret security clearance or higher.
• Previous experience in Aerospace & Defense and/or government contracting.
• Experience leading a team as a Human Resources Director responsible for multiple HR disciplines.
• Proficiency with HRIS platforms and technology (e.g., Workday).
• Experience working in a matrix environment.
• Previous experience developing and implementing organization effectiveness strategies and approaches, implementing large-scale organization design and/or organization transformations.

Pay

Primary level salary range: $190,100.00 - $330,100.00. 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.

Benefits

• Health insurance coverage.
• Life and disability insurance.
• Savings plan.
• Company-paid holidays.
• Paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business.