Marathon TS is looking for a capable, motivated Business Operations Specialist to join a large-scale team to support and deliver project management and acquisition support for the Department of the Air Force (DAF), Administrative Assistant to the Secretary of the Air Force (SAF / AA) Concepts, Development, and Management Office (CDM).
The services described below support CDM acquisition program management. We are seeking a qualified candidate to augment CDM's acquisition program management knowledge and experience requirements to organize and manage resources and personnel to accomplish DAF and CDM acquisition objectives effectively and efficiently IAW with Department of Defense Instruction (DoDI) policies and procedures.
Functional Requirements : The Business Operations Specialist shall provide focused expertise, to institute, refine, mature, and / or correct business operations practices.
Duties and responsibilities include assessing and determining best practices for systems, technologies, policy, governance where products, services, and programs intersect.
Serves as the top evaluator and assessor for associated projects, able to enact improvements based on experiential knowledge, while acting as the foremost experienced advisor between the Contractor's PM and the Government.
The candidate ensures that all assignments associated with a Government-funded program or project is completed effectively, efficiently, on time, within budget and will provide updated technical, operational, and contractual inputs to the Government.
- Create a plan for engagement and collaboration to identify strategic needs across the defense enterprise to include all the functional areas.
- Analyze and develop long-term plans pertaining to strategy, modernization, force structure composition and disposition, doctrine, policy, and programming activities.
- Collaborate with CDM to create Measures of Performance (MOPs), Measures of Effectiveness (MOEs), and decision matrices and frameworks.
Construct and maintain, as required, logs and databases that allow for tracking and recording of events within strategic efforts and programs for the purpose of end-of-year analyses and performance report preparation.
- Analyze annual congressional authorizations and appropriations to determine potential strategic impacts to planned and ongoing CDM activities, and development of a Congressional tracker to account of CDM's historical appropriated budgets.
- Organizational process development, requirements planning, and programming support with knowledge of various United States Government (USG) customers.
- Provide expertise in DAF and Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) processes, organization development, deliberate planning, programming, and strategy, support for development of engagement plans to effect resourcing support from CDM stakeholders and customers.
- Ability to develop strategic sourcing strategies, evaluate vendor performance, and negotiate contracts to achieve cost savings and operational efficiencies.
- Knowledge of government property regulations and processes related to tracking, maintenance, and disposal of government-owned assets within the DoD.