Position Title: Senior Business and Economics AnalystLocation: Pentagon, Arlington, Virginia
Category: Contingent upon contract award
Schedule (FT/PT): Full Time
Travel Required: N/A
Shift: Day
Remote Type: In-Office
Clearance required: Top Secret is required Salary: $175,000 - $200,000 ***THIS POSITION IS CONTINGENT UPON CONTRACT AWARD*** Description: ACT1 Federal is seeking an experienced
Senior Business and Economics Analyst to provide private-capital, infrastructure, energy, business-model, affordability, financing, and senior decision-support analysis in support of industrial base and fifth shipyard decisions.
Responsibilities: Industrial Economics and Market Analysis: - Analyze market structure, concentration, competition, barriers to entry and exit, vertical integration, bargaining power, scale economies, learning effects, and minimum sustaining rates.
- Assess production capacity, utilization, throughput, lead time, capital constraints, demand stability, pricing, inflation, and the economics of surge or mobilization.
- Evaluate critical suppliers and industrial sectors for financial viability, investment capacity, sole-source exposure, foreign dependencies, geographic concentration, and indicators of distress.
- Analyze labor markets, wages, workforce demographics, skill pipelines, regional competition, housing or infrastructure constraints, and other factors affecting industrial capacity.
- Assess the effects of mergers, supplier exits, new entrants, qualification requirements, switching costs, and alternative sourcing on competition and resilience.
Investment and Policy Analysis: - Evaluate proposed industrial-base investments, incentives, capacity expansions, supplier-development actions, infrastructure alternatives, and other interventions using cost-benefit, business-case, additionality, affordability, and risk methods.
- Assess how procurement quantities, multiyear demand, contract structures, funding stability, economic order quantities, and acquisition strategies influence private investment and production decisions.
- Identify circumstances in which Government action may address a market failure and circumstances in which intervention could create dependency, crowd out private investment, or preserve uneconomic capacity.
- Develop alternatives that explain expected costs, benefits, market responses, distributional effects, implementation risks, and sensitivity to changes in demand, schedule, or economic conditions.
- Support economic assessment of shipyards, production facilities, critical infrastructure, workforce initiatives, and other Government-designated industrial-base priorities.
Modeling and Senior Leader Support: - Build transparent and reproducible models for demand, capacity, supplier health, workforce, market concentration, investment, cost, disruption, and alternative scenarios.
- Collect and reconcile information from budget documents, procurement systems, company filings, economic statistics, trade data, industry submissions, interviews, and authorized commercial sources.
- Apply sensitivity, break-even, scenario, input-output, econometric, network, or stress analysis when appropriate and document sources, assumptions, limitations, and confidence.
- Prepare executive briefings, sector assessments, investment analyses, issue papers, decision memoranda, dashboards, and rapid-response analyses for directors and senior DASN DIB leaders.
Requirements: - Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution in business, management, engineering, economics, finance, operations research, public administration, or a related discipline.
- 10+ years' experience in economics, industrial-base analysis, corporate finance, market analysis, supply-chain economics, operations research, or a closely related field.
- Demonstrated expertise applying microeconomics, industrial organization, quantitative methods, and financial analysis to complex industry, production, acquisition, investment, or national security questions.
- Experience assessing market structure, supplier viability, production economics, workforce constraints, investment behavior, or industrial-policy alternatives.
- Experience developing transparent models, analyzing incomplete or conflicting data, documenting uncertainty, and communicating principal findings without overstating confidence.
- Active Top Secret Clearance required.
Benefits: - Medical/Dental/Vision Insurance
- ACT1 Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP)
- Company Paid Life and AD&D Insurance
- Company Paid Short-Term Disability
- Voluntary Long-Term Disability
- Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
- Health Savings Account (HSA)
- Education, Training & Professional Development
- Voluntary Accidental Injury/Critical Illness/Hospital Care
- Voluntary Pet Insurance, Legal Resources, and Identity Protection
Our people-first culture prioritizes the benefits of flexibility and collaboration, whether that happens in person or remotely.
- If this position is listed as remote or hybrid, you'll periodically work from a ACT1 Federal or client site facility.
- If this position is listed as onsite, you'll work with colleagues and clients in person, as needed for the specific role.
