Senior Business and Economics Analyst at ACT1 Federal in Arlington, VA

Job description

• 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

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

Skills

Required

• Microeconomics
• Industrial organization
• Quantitative methods
• Financial analysis
• Market analysis
• Supply-chain economics
• Operations research
• Modeling
• Data analysis
• Cost-benefit analysis
• Sensitivity analysis
• Break-even analysis

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)
• 401K with employer match
• Paid Time Off
• Paid Holidays
• Parental Leave
• Military Leave
• Education, Training & Professional Development
• Voluntary Accidental Injury/Critical Illness/Hospital Care
• Voluntary Pet Insurance, Legal Resources, and Identity Protection