Strategic Operations Analyst - Industry Specialist at ACT1 Federal in Arlington, VA

Job description

• 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

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

Skills

Required

• Strategic operations analysis
• Industrial-base analysis
• Manufacturing and supply chain knowledge
• Defense acquisition knowledge
• Program management
• Executive briefing preparation
• Risk analysis
• Stakeholder engagement
• Top Secret clearance

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