[Hiring] Manager 2 - Coaching and Assessment @Northrop Grumman

Role Description

Join an innovative and collaborative leadership development team focused on building the next generation of leaders. This is a unique opportunity to shape and scale an integrated coaching and assessment strategy that strengthens leadership capability and accelerates readiness across the enterprise.

This role reports to the Head of Leadership Development and can be performed as a virtual telecommuter.

The Manager, Coaching & Assessment, is responsible for designing and operationalizing a scalable, data-driven coaching and leadership assessment ecosystem. This role ensures that leadership diagnostics, coaching interventions, and development planning are fully integrated and aligned to enterprise leadership capabilities and business priorities.

The leader plays a critical role in advancing leadership development effectiveness by translating insights into targeted developmental actions that drive measurable improvements in leadership capability, performance, and succession readiness.

Key Responsibilities

• Coaching Strategy & Delivery
  • Implement and evolve the tiered coaching model aligned to leadership levels, transitions, and talent priorities.
  • Manage internal and external coaching resources to ensure high quality, consistency, and measurable impact.
  • Oversee end-to-end coaching lifecycle (selection, matching, engagement, and evaluation).
  • Establish standards, governance, frameworks, and best practices for coaching delivery.
• Assessment Strategy & Integration
  • Lead the implementation of leadership assessments across critical transitions and accelerator programs.
  • Ensure a framework exists to translate assessment insights into clear, actionable development plans.
  • Integrate assessment data into coaching strategy, leadership programs, and talent processes.
• Team & Vendor Management
  • Manage coaching resources (internal coaches and external vendors).
  • Oversee the Coordinator, Coaches, and Community of practice.
  • Ensure quality control across all assessment and coaching experiences.
• Development Planning & Talent Integration
  • Build standardized approaches to connect assessment insights into development actions.
  • Ensure leadership development efforts are targeted at addressing capability gaps and future business needs.
• Stakeholder Engagement
  • Partner with senior leaders, HR partners, and business stakeholders to align coaching and assessment strategies with enterprise priorities.
  • Support executive-level discussions on leadership capability and succession readiness.
• Measurement & Impact
  • Partner with teams to build dashboards and reporting mechanisms.
  • Define and track key metrics related to leadership capability, readiness, and development impact. Use data to continuously improve coaching and assessment strategies.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in HR, Organizational Development, Psychology, Business, or related field
• 8+ years of experience in leadership development, talent management, coaching, or organizational development
• Experience designing and implementing leadership assessment and/or coaching programs
• Coaching certification (ICF or equivalent)
• Experience working with senior leaders and enterprise stakeholders

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with leadership assessment tools (e.g., Korn Ferry)
• Experience integrating coaching and assessments into enterprise talent strategies

Benefits

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

Salary Information

Primary Level Salary Range: $121,000.00 - $181,600.00. 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.

Application Information

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.

Equal Opportunity Employer

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.