This role provides comprehensive business operations support to NIWC Atlantic's EIS Division FITE IPT. The specialist serves as a cross-functional business operations integrator, collaborating across IPT leadership, Program Managers, Contracts, Finance, procurement personnel, and project leads. The focus is on improving organizational processes, strengthening data integrity, and supporting procurement-related tracking to ensure clarity on actions, priorities, constraints, and performance. Key Responsibilities: • Provide business operations support across IPT functional areas and help identify operational gaps and improvement opportunities. • Lead process improvement initiatives including problem identification, root cause analysis, solution development, deployment, and monitoring. • Work across finance, contracts, procurement, and program management to maintain transparency of all IPT actions. • Maintain end-to-end data integrity within Microsoft Power Apps; ensure accuracy and consistency of inputs from Contracts, Finance, and project teams. • Develop and maintain a common data architecture to support rapid and accurate responses to data calls. • Track procurement package status, action items, routing, comments, and milestone dates. • Support development, coordination, review, and reporting of procurement requests, contract documentation, funding actions, and acquisition tasks. • Provide professional communication across government and contractor teams to keep actions moving through the acquisition lifecycle. • Coordinate with stakeholders to collect inputs and resolve procurement or funding deficiencies. • Work closely with program managers, project leads, BFM personnel, contracting teams, and other stakeholders to ensure compliance and completeness of procurement packages. Minimum Qualifications: • Bachelor's degree in business, finance, acquisition, contracting, public administration, or related field. • Four or more years supporting government acquisition, contracts, procurement, program management, or business operations. • Experience developing, coordinating, or reviewing procurement request packages or related contracting documentation. • Familiarity with FAR, DFARS, DoD acquisition processes, Navy procurement processes, or federal service contracting requirements. • Proficiency with Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, SharePoint). • Active Secret clearance or higher. Desired Qualifications: • Experience supporting NIWC LANT, Navy acquisition programs, or service contract procurement actions. • Highly organized and able to manage multiple procurement actions at various stages. • Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment with evolving requirements. • Ability to translate program and technical inputs into clear, complete procurement-ready documentation. • Strong collaboration skills with government leads, contracting personnel, financial managers, and project teams. • Experience with Microsoft Power Platform (Power Apps, Power Automate, SharePoint, Power BI). • Experience with process improvement methodologies such as Lean, Six Sigma, workflow analysis, or similar. • Experience developing business process maps, SOPs, workflow documents, dashboards, or performance metrics. • Experience with data governance, validation, standardization, or enterprise reporting. • Ability to analyze large or complex datasets and translate findings into actionable recommendations. • Experience supporting DoD acquisition, Navy acquisition, federal contracting, or government program management environments. Salary: $90,000+ to align with education and experience.