Northrop Grumman's Corporate Global Business Development Office (CGBDO) is seeking a Business Development Manager to support the enterprise’s international growth objectives.
Located at the Corporate headquarters in Falls Church, VA, this position will be part of an interdisciplinary team responsible for business development operations in support of Northrop Grumman’s international business portfolio and will report to the Regional Vice President of Europe and the Middle East.
The manager will be responsible for supporting wide-ranging global enterprise business development initiatives for the Corporate Regional Vice Presidents and Country Executives.
Responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:
Consolidate and Prepare Enterprise Reviews
Lead and manage consolidation of regional reviews and presentations
Produce and integrate materials to address data requests, reviews, and reporting across
a variety of initiatives
Manage the development, tracking, reporting, and forecasting of business development operational goals and activities
Support business operations in international offices as needed
Maintain the accuracy of our Salesforce CRM tool for the regional team, and provide support to sectors where needed
Coordinate Leadership meetings
Establish and strategically review the operating rhythm for the VP, Country Executives, and Directors for the Middle East and Europe Regions
Plan, coordinate, and manage the VPs annual offsite, including the agenda and follow-up action items
Establish agenda and coordinate preparation for leadership team meetings, events, keynote addresses, business presentations, and other key leadership meetings
Support the VPs and Directors in major meetings and events, reviewing the agenda, preparing for and supporting engagements and post-interactions to ensure successful outcomes
Anticipate and manage the materials, data and presentation needs for upcoming meetings and events
Support preparation for and coordination of annual conferences with leadership
Partner with Communications and sector stakeholders to ensure the VPs are prepared for all speaking engagements and customer meetings (both internal and external)
Support the VPs and Directors in cultivation of relationships with sectors
Liaise with comms team to prep talking points and presentations for regional VP
Submit presentation material to eProcs
Sector/ Site visits
Support planning and coordination for VPs both domestically and internationally
Support planning and coordination of site visits for Country Executives, and international employees domestically
Implementation of Strategic Initiatives
Drive execution of strategic initiatives and tasks initiated by the VPs by working with cross-functional teams and business leaders across the organization
Lead/ Support internal special projects as requested to include activities such as:
Developing and monitoring objectives
Facilitating broader communication across key stakeholders as appropriate
We are looking for self-starters that help bring out the best of the larger team. Core skills include critical/strategic thinking, organization, and attention to detail. In addition, the candidate must have a result driven attitude and a proven capability of working in a collaborative environment across distributed and diverse locations and organizations.
Basic Qualifications:
• Bachelor’s Degree with at least 10 years of relevant experience, or Master’s Degree with 8 years of experience in Aerospace and Defense
• Proven ability to create, compose and edit written materials, and to consolidate data from multiple sources into concise executive caliber summaries
• Advanced MS Excel and MS PowerPoint skills
• Strong proficiency in data manipulation and analytics, including identification, collection, processing and analyzing large volumes of data
• Proven ability to produce high quality work for executive audiences
• Ability to work requisite hours to support executive deadline in fast-paced environment
• Excellent communication skills, ability to operate independently, dynamically manage priorities, and thrive in a multi-disciplinary, highly collaborative team environment
• High degree of organizational efficiency
Preferred Qualifications:
• Master’s Degree in Business Administration or similar and 15 years of work experience in the defense/aerospace business, military, or national security enterprise
• 15+ years experience in U.S. and international defense requirements, processes, and customer needs
• Understanding of Northrop Grumman business priorities, strategy, capture resources, and key stakeholders