Senior Human Resources Director

Northrop Grumman

Senior HR Director managing HR functions for Northrop Grumman's Aerospace sector. Leading strategic initiatives for talent management and organization design across multiple locations.

Posted 6/2/2026full-timePalmdale • California, Florida • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $190,100 - $330,100 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Act as a trusted advisor to functional senior leadership – influence to optimize collaboration and ownership of functional and sector objectives
Implement HR strategies and initiatives aligned to programmatic and functional business objectives
Provide strategic leadership and oversight to design and orchestrate strategies to support 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 & retention, leveraging total rewards, company mission and values, best-in-class culture, career development and employee flexibility

Requirements

What you’ll need

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

Benefits

Comp & perks

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

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Hard Skills & Tools

HR strategiestalent acquisitionleadership developmentdata analyticschange managementsuccession planningemployee performance managementorganizational designproject management

Soft Skills

collaborationrelationship-buildinginfluencingcoachingconsultingproblem solvingflexibilityadaptabilitycommunication

Certifications

Bachelor's degreeMaster's degreeU.S. Government Secret security clearance