Position Title: Strategic Operations Analyst - Industry SpecialistLocation: 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 clearance required Salary: $190,000 - $211,000 ***THIS POSITION IS CONTINGENT UPON CONTRACT AWARD*** Description: ACT1 Federal is seeking an experienced
Strategic Operations Analyst - Industry Specialist to coordinate industry, port, and stakeholder engagement; strategic communications; executive actions; and cross-organizational follow-through in support of industrial base and fifth shipyard decisions.
Responsibilities: Strategic and Operational Analysis: - Analyze industrial-base strategies, operating models, implementation plans, governance, authorities, resources, schedules, dependencies, and measures of effectiveness.
- Translate senior-leader objectives into executable lines of effort, decision points, stakeholder responsibilities, milestones, and performance outcomes.
- Assess relationships among acquisition demand, production capacity, supplier readiness, infrastructure, workforce, technology, capital investment, logistics, and sustainment.
- Identify systemic constraints, cross-directorate dependencies, conflicting incentives, implementation gaps, and risks that could prevent desired industrial outcomes.
- Develop strategic alternatives and operational recommendations based on feasibility, cost, schedule, market response, implementation burden, and mission effect.
Industry and Supplier Engagement: - Assess prime contractor, supplier, and sector capabilities, operating conditions, investment incentives, capacity constraints, and readiness to meet Navy requirements.
- Support structured engagements, site visits, interviews, workshops, and data calls with authorized Government and industry stakeholders.
- Evaluate industry assertions, recovery plans, capacity-expansion proposals, supplier-development approaches, and investment requests against available evidence and demonstrated performance.
- Analyze lower-tier dependencies, sole-source exposure, long-lead materials, workforce limitations, capital needs, qualification barriers, and other sources of fragility.
- Identify opportunities for alternate sourcing, supplier development, demand stabilization, investment, infrastructure, workforce, technology, or acquisition action.
Implementation and Executive Support: - Develop implementation roadmaps, operating concepts, risk and issue registers, decision logs, action plans, stakeholder maps, and measures for tracking outcomes.
- Prepare executive briefings, industry assessments, decision memoranda, issue papers, alternatives analyses, and concise responses to senior-leader questions.
- Coordinate with DASN DIB directorates, Navy Secretariat organizations, resource sponsors, systems commands, program executive offices, program offices, counsel, comptroller, and other stakeholders.
- Monitor approved initiatives and recommend adjustments when performance, industry conditions, requirements, resources, or assumptions change.
Requirements: - Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution in business, engineering, operations management, supply chain, economics, finance, public policy, national security studies, or a related discipline.
- 12+ years' experience in defense industry, strategic operations, industrial-base analysis, manufacturing, supply chain, acquisition, program management, or a closely related field.
- Demonstrated experience analyzing complex industry or operational problems and developing implementable strategies, operating models, recovery actions, or investment recommendations.
- Strong knowledge of defense acquisition and industrial operations, including relationships among demand, contracting, production, suppliers, workforce, infrastructure, capital, and program execution.
- Experience engaging senior Government and industry leaders and evaluating contractor, supplier, or sector capabilities and proposed solutions.
- Experience preparing executive briefings, strategic assessments, decision memoranda, implementation roadmaps, risk analyses, and senior-leader recommendations.
- 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.
