Division Security Director

Northrop Grumman Space Sector (NGSP) sector is seeking a Division Security Director to lead security operations for our Payload and Ground Systems (PGS) Division and will be located at our Baltimore, MD site. This position will report directly to the Space Sector Security Director.

The PGS Security Director will oversee Northrop Grumman’s PGS programs and provide both strategic and tactical security program guidance to enable the business while maintaining a compliant security program. This position will interact internally with program leadership and externally with senior members of customer security and policy executives to ensure the Division's strategy keeps pace with the government’s expectations.

As a direct report to Director, Space Sector Security, the PGS Security Director, will be an innovative leader who can drive the Division security strategy and implementation to its next level of maturity. The PGS Security Director will partner closely with our government customers, business partners and internal customers. This individual must establish a forward leaning and sustainable strategy that is aligned to business objectives. It will be important the Security Director, PGS effectively delivers and executes a strategy that will maintain the integrity of the business and the clients they serve.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Continuously assessing needs; developing, implementing, and monitoring program security strategy for Programs within the PGS Division.
• Collaborate with other Northrop Grumman Security personnel and Sectors for uniform Northrop Grumman policy and consistency.
• Building strong relationships and partnering closely with senior leadership, especially within the security and information technology organizations and across the Northrop Grumman enterprise.
• Promoting strategic relationships between internal resources and external entities, including government, vendors, and partner organizations.
• Engaging in special programs best-practice sharing with peer organizations and executive briefings.
• Developing the Divisions security team to grow to its next level of maturity and scalability.
• Recruiting, training, and retaining a world class security team with particular focus on building a bench of best-in-class special programs leaders for the future.
• Creating energy and enthusiasm at all levels.
• Working collaboratively with the various operating units to understand security issues, negative trends, and/or compliance challenges and, when required, interact with the government, on behalf of the Division, to address issues.
• Accountable for ensuring that overall budgets, schedules, and performance standards are met.

Work Attributes:

• Senior level understanding customers Security Structure.
• Exceptional communication skills necessary to advise and influence the senior management and government officials.
• Strategic leader who can drive a vision while maintaining an execution-oriented culture driving results; an entrepreneurial spirit; ability to serve as a hands-on leader.
• Strong influencing skills to get things done; a collaborative approach with the ability to partner with business leaders across the enterprise to overcome institutional resistance and achieve transformational change.
• Proponent of continuous improvement process and the ability to challenge the status quo.
• Accountability for providing a special programs strategy and implementation aligned to government customer expectations and business objectives.
• Skills required to provide insights to sector senior stakeholders.
• High level of personal integrity and the ability to professionally handle confidential matters and demonstrate the appropriate level of judgment and maturity in balanced risk decision making.
• Ability to understand the complex government regulatory environment and how best to navigate within it. Ability to provide thought leadership, critical thinking, and problem solving to the most challenging issues.
• Ability to operate in a highly dynamic environment with the ability to respond and react decisively in a changing set of circumstances and priorities. Ability to quickly assess complex situations and take appropriate action.
• Ability to identify and plan for multi-year opportunities and is prepared to invest time and patience to harvest a long-term, multi-year approach.
• Ability to communicate succinctly and clearly with peers, leadership, direct reports, and outside partner and stakeholders. Able to communicate at all levels up to and including the sector president and senior external customers. Excellent written and verbal communication skills; interpersonal and collaborative skills; and the ability to communicate special programs, security, information technology, and risk-related concepts to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Ability to lead and motivate cross-functional, interdisciplinary teams to achieve tactical and strategic goals. Project management skills; financial/budget management, scheduling, and resource management.

Basic Qualifications:

• 10+ years of relevant security experience with a minimum of 5 years at the senior management and/or supervisory level; experience in defense and intelligence special programs is a priority.
• Bachelors degree.
• Candidate must have and be able to maintain, an active U.S. Government final security clearance at the Top-Secret/SCI level with a background investigation dated within the last 6 years or be enrolled in the DoD trusted workforce continuous evaluation program.
• Cross-functional experience with demonstrated success leading transformation change in large organizations is a priority.
• Experience communicating security related concepts to a broad range of technical and nontechnical audiences; will have to be an articulate and persuasive leader who can serve as an effective member of the senior leadership team.
• Experience successfully implementing change.
• Experience identifying corporate policies, processes, and procedures that are not optimally aligned with business objectives and recommending and implementing changes.
• A track record of assessing threat and vulnerability from a business as well as a technical perspective and the ability to develop and champion affordable, efficient, and timely security architectures and solutions that support growth of the Divisions business.
• Understanding of program protection.
• Thorough understanding of special programs, including government governance models, policy, compliance, and existing and planned government infrastructure, applications, and tools that may be leveraged by the company.

Preferred Qualifications:

• The ideal candidate will have a Masters degree and 12 years of experience in Industrial Security, to include 8 years in management with experience managing multiple programs/locations.
• Proven ability and experience working with US Government security leadership in DOD and IC security programs.
• Experience and direct participation with Government/Industry Security Organizations (ISWG, NDIA, AIA, NCMS, etc.).
• Possess a breadth of demonstrated business, financial and management skills, knowledge and abilities.

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