Business Operations

• Lead annual and quarterly planning, translating team strategy into priorities and resource plans
• Establish decision rights, delivery commitments and measures of success
• Resolve sequencing and capacity trade-offs and recommend additional people, vendors or technology
• Manage integrated delivery plans for office openings, refreshes and capital initiatives
• Direct external project managers and align internal workstreams
• Resolve delivery issues and hold partners accountable for schedule, cost, quality and operational readiness
• Establish lease administration, obligation tracking, space and occupancy information, and portfolio reporting
• Set data and control standards and turn trends and risks into recommendations
• Own operating and capital forecasts, commitments, actuals and variance analysis with Finance
• Challenge assumptions and recommend corrective actions and investment trade-offs
• Own requirements, governance and improvement priorities for workplace tools such as Envoy
• Improve data quality and automate repeatable work while maintaining controls
• Lead EHS program governance, obligation follow-through, remediation and risk escalation
• Develop project playbooks, planning processes and operational-readiness criteria
• Ensure completed projects transfer to local operations with documentation, training, vendor arrangements and issue ownership
• Lead cross-functional operating and project reviews and represent workplace operations with internal and external partners

Global Workplace Business Operations Lead

• Own the marketing and communications tool stack, including evaluation, procurement, onboarding, access provisioning, training, and retirement
• Build and maintain internal calendars, intake forms, dashboards, trackers, and automations
• Run priorities, launch and campaign calendars, planning cycles, and cross-functional handoffs
• Manage agencies, contractors, and vendors from selection and onboarding through scopes, invoices, renewals, and performance
• Coordinate contracts and procurement with Legal and Finance
• Track team activities, identify dependencies, and maintain alignment
• Advise and triage for leadership by providing updates, identifying problems, escalating issues, proposing solutions, and following through
• Add useful operational rigor without creating unnecessary overhead

Business Operations Manager – Marketing and Communications

• Drive critical cross-functional strategic initiatives for Hinge Health
• Develop new revenue and product strategies, including business case modeling and market/competitor landscaping
• Pilot and launch new products from 0-to-1 through full rollout
• Manage business outcomes
• Scale and transform operations
• Analyze business performance metrics and current strategic initiatives
• Own workstreams within strategic projects such as market pilots and operational audits
• Drive execution of cross-functional initiatives
• Establish dashboards to manage business performance KPIs
• Identify opportunities for operational improvement
• Own the strategy and operational roadmap for a significant business area
• Advise leadership with data-driven insights for annual planning and long-term strategy
• Collaborate across Product, Commercial, and Clinical teams

Business Operations – Strategy Manager

• Lead day-to-day technology operations for Rently employees
• Deliver hands-on deskside support and manage onboarding, offboarding, access, and licensing for approximately Rently US employees
• Collaborate with IT counterparts in India and China who administer their own regions
• Own the Halo ITSM ticket queue, monitor trends, set priorities, and drive issues to resolution
• Serve as the escalation point above AI-assisted first-tier support
• Improve support runbooks and automation
• Administer Google Workspace, JumpCloud single sign-on, SentinelOne, and Mac and Windows endpoints
• Manage office and conference-room technology
• Direct Salesforce and NetSuite administration through platform specialists
• Own intake for system requests and evaluate business impact and ROI
• Recommend Salesforce, NetSuite, or purpose-built internal applications for business needs
• Prioritize administrator queues and maintain clean data flow between CRM and ERP
• Manage vendor relationships, contract reviews, renewals, license usage, and system spend
• Enforce the company's AI governance policy and maintain approved-tool controls
• Help shape AI governance policy with the Director of Operations
• Support SOC 2 and ISO 27001 / ISO 27701 compliance efforts
• Report to the Senior Director of Operations

IT & Business Systems Manager

• Own IT's strategic layer for value-based planning, prioritization, and governance
• Manage two contractor resources during build-out, then hire, lead, and develop a target-state team of 2–3 FTEs
• Build the annual planning cycle, multi-year technology plan, business cases, and investment narratives
• Establish a shared prioritization and governance model for IT work
• Own financial operations with FP&A, including cost-center modeling, spend tracking, application ownership, forecasting inputs, and consolidated IT spend and renewal exposure
• Own procurement, contract, and renewal management, including renewal calendars, negotiation packets, and application inventory
• Manage contractor and SOW administration and workforce operations across multiple countries
• Run IT's executive operating cadence, including all-hands, monthly updates, quarterly roadmap reviews, leadership meetings, and business reviews

Director, Technology Business Operations

• Act as a strategic bridge between SCBO and the Strategy & Transformation Team, connecting run-the-business priorities across tooling, process, and compliance with transformation initiatives.
• Build and lead a high-performing team, establishing best practices, KPIs, and governance cadences as the supply chain technology/application portfolio scales.
• Translate business operational needs and portfolio priorities into transformation requirements and roadmaps.
• Help define and build the future-state Source-to-Pay operating model, including process, governance, technology, data, and organizational interfaces.
• Identify gaps, dependencies, risks, and opportunities across procurement, supply chain, Finance, Legal, IT, and business teams.
• Partner with Finance to connect procurement planning, budgets, commitments, forecasts, and actual spend.
• Establish scalable procurement operating mechanisms, KPIs, reporting, and governance.
• Translate complex business requirements into scalable operational, process, data, and technology solutions.
• Drive cross-functional programs from strategy through implementation and adoption.
• Assess and prioritize business impact, scalability risk, and value proposition for long-term initiatives.
• Lead resolution of complex and ambiguous Source-to-Pay issues impacting company-wide operations.
• Identify critical skillsets needed to support and advance capabilities across the supply chain technology/application portfolio.

Director, Supply Chain Business Operations

• Execute the continuous improvement strategy by translating business objectives into actionable projects
• Engage with departments to sustain, improve, and streamline processes, focusing on safety, quality, delivery, and cost
• Supervise change agents and team members on small project tasks
• Design, lead, and/or participate in Lean continuous improvement events
• Conduct process audits, Safety Gembas, and Waste Walks across the distribution center network
• Maintain SOPs and documentation
• Develop and maintain training programs for the Distribution network, including train-the-trainer programs
• Define, capture, and analyze data and metrics
• Identify and implement EWM enhancements
• Manage project implementation with return-on-investment analysis
• Provide distribution center operational support and floor leadership
• Perform other duties as defined

Business Process Improvement Analyst

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 Aeronautics systems Sector is seeking a Principle Supply Chain Business Operations/Compliance specialist Level 3 or 4 to join the team of qualified, diverse individuals. This position is on the GSC Compliance Team and may be located in one of the following locations: Melbourne, Fla, San Diego, Ca, or Clearfield, Utah. There may be a 10% travel required between multiple sites and locations.

Responsible for processes and activities within supply chain related operations and/or compliance such as regulatory compliance, systems and technology, data analytics and performance, international supply chain, operational excellence and supply base diversity. Manages, develops or supports strategic direction and tactical execution of governance (policy, procedure, processes, etc.), priorities, initiatives and related activities.
Note: *** This position consists of In-house Classified area support***

The successful candidate will perform PACE audits, provide compliance support to the procurement organization, review procedures, support the training team with compliance guidance, support annual customer audits, and interface with Supply Chain Management processes and personnel at all levels to ensure the success in sector compliance.

Responsibilities include the audit of procurement packages, support sector customer audits, review procedures for accuracy and any needed clarification, compliance support in training classes, mentoring procurement employees in compliance, remain up to date in FAR/DFAR regulations, Terms and Conditions Contract Instructions and Addenda clauses.

Successful candidate must remain up to date in FAR/DFAR regulations, Terms and Conditions, Program addenda clauses, sector procedures, develop in-house programs and practices to identify developmental needs, including preparing personnel for positions of increasing responsibility and increasing personnel effectiveness in present assignments. SAP knowledge a plus.

Candidate must have experience in Global Supply Chain roles.  Position requires coordination and collaboration with key stakeholders to include, but not limited to, Contracts, Engineering, Quality, Strategic Sourcing, Planning, Operations and Program Management. Prior hands-on management of suppliers / subcontracts for both US Government and non-US Government programs. 

Basic Qualifications Level 3:

- Bachelor’s degree with 5 years of experience, a Master’s degree with 3 years of experience or a PHD with 1 years of experience. Experience must be related to Procurement, Subcontracts, Peer Review of Packages and/or Audits, Organization Effectiveness, and/or other related industry experience.

- Prior experience in audit (internal or external) reviews.

- Experience with procurement / subcontracts.

- Knowledge of terms and conditions, and program contract flow-downs (FAR/DFAR regulations).

- Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S Government Secret level (or above) clearance within a reasonable amount of time as deemed appropriate by the company to meet business objectives.

Basic Qualifications Level 4:

- Bachelor’s degree with 8 years of experience, a Master’s degree with 6 years of experience or a PHD with 4 years of experience. Experience must be related to Procurement, Subcontracts, Peer Review of Packages and/or Audits, Organization Effectiveness, and/or other related industry experience.

- Prior experience in audit (internal or external) reviews.

- Experience with procurement / subcontracts.

- Knowledge of terms and conditions, and program contract flow-downs (FAR/DFAR regulations).

- Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S Government Secret level (or above) clearance within a reasonable amount of time as deemed appropriate by the company to meet business objectives.

Preferred Qualifications:

- Working knowledge of SAP.

- Prior experience working with suppliers/subcontracts for both US Government and non-US Government programs as a Buyer or SCA.

- An Active Current U.S Government Secret level Clearance

Primary Level Salary Range: $81,400.00 - $141,200.00

Secondary Level Salary Range: $101,400.00 - $176,300.00

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.

Supply Chain Business Operations Compliance Specialist 3 OR 4

• Recruit for core business teams including Product, Communications, Marketing, Experience, and People Operations
• Support technical and on-the-ground operations recruiting, particularly Manufacturing Operations and Fleet Operations
• Manage a diverse portfolio of technical and non-technical roles from entry-level through Senior Manager
• Own the full recruiting process, including managing clients, qualifying requirements, sourcing, recruiting, and closing talent
• Partner with hiring managers and cross-functional leaders
• Manage full-cycle recruiting with strong hiring manager partnership and candidate advocacy
• Source candidates, screen resumes, and evaluate technical and behavioral fit
• Facilitate interviews and hiring decisions with interviewers, hiring managers, and company leadership
• Manage offers and partner with hiring managers, leadership, and HR teams to close candidates
• Improve the candidate experience and recruiting process
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• Contribute to audience and revenue growth and lead operational efforts across ESPN’s global platforms
• Identify and evaluate opportunities to determine ROI for ESPN and assess priorities against industry changes
• Partner with internal departments to drive revenue growth for ESPN Global Sports
• Conduct sports rights analysis and deal modeling to support the acquisition process
• Partner with Programming and Scheduling teams to create efficiencies across global planning
• Synthesize financial or growth strategies into storytelling presentations and communicate findings to management
• Serve as a strategic partner, managing special projects and priorities for the VP, Global Sports Cross Platform Development
• Oversee the Business Operations Global Insights budget
• Help manage Global Sports Films/Originals distribution across streaming and linear touchpoints
• Operationalize analytics and fan insights to inform growth strategy and drive commercial opportunities
• Create and communicate insight summaries on performance, fan behavior, audience opportunities, and content performance
• Identify and act on future revenue and growth opportunities beyond distribution and traditional advertising sales revenue
• Identify and evaluate content distribution opportunities on third-party platforms
• Develop actions from revenue forecasts to maximize annual performance
• Track competitive platforms to understand revenue and growth opportunities
• Coordinate shared services to unify business objectives across teams
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