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Job Description: BAE Systems is seeking the following:
Position Overview We are seeking a highly skilled and strategic professional to drive organizational growth and operational excellence. In this role, you will partner with senior leadership to translate high-level mission priorities into actionable strategic plans, optimize organizational structures, and ensure cross-functional alignment across the enterprise. The ideal candidate is a disciplined leader capable of navigating complex organizational boundaries to integrate diverse capabilities and resources. Key Responsibilities • Strategic Planning: Develop and sustain comprehensive strategic plans in collaboration with senior leadership; facilitate and lead strategic planning sessions to define future states. • Mission Alignment: Identify critical mission priorities and growth opportunities to ensure the organization remains responsive to evolving requirements. • Organizational Management: Analyze current organizational structures and recommend enhancements to better align human and technical resources with strategic objectives. • Technical Roadmap Development: Lead the creation and execution of strategic technical roadmaps, ensuring that technological investments and capabilities evolve in alignment with long-term mission requirements. • Process Optimization: Identify operational inefficiencies and implement process improvements to increase productivity and mission effectiveness. • Execution & Reporting: Track progress against strategic milestones, provide executive-level briefings to leadership, and coordinate alignment across multiple teams. • Data-Driven Analysis: Assess complex datasets to derive insights and deliver actionable recommendations for leadership decision-making. • Governance: Maintain and update critical organizational documentation and performance metrics.
Required Skills and Education: • Education: Bachelor’s degree in a related field (e.g., Organizational Management, Business Administration, Public Policy, or similar). • Organizational Management Expertise: • Proven experience in organizational design, including the ability to analyze workforce capabilities and recommend structural changes to optimize operational efficiency. • Proven experience in strategic technical roadmap development, with the ability to forecast technology trends and integrate them into organizational planning. • Demonstrated ability to develop and implement governance frameworks that align activities with overarching mission objectives. • Experience in change management, specifically leading organizations through structural transitions or strategic pivots.
• Technical Proficiency: Demonstrated experience and proficiency utilizing technological tools in assisting organizational or strategic planning initiatives. • Communication & Influence: Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with a proven track record of engaging, influencing, and aligning diverse stakeholders. • Program Management: Professional experience managing complex initiatives from inception through completion. • Cross-Functional Leadership: Proven experience leading coordination across organizational boundaries and integrating diverse capabilities and resources to achieve a common goal.
About BAE Systems Intelligence & Security: BAE Systems, Inc. is the U.S. subsidiary of BAE Systems plc, an international defense, aerospace and security company which delivers a full range of products and services for air, land and naval forces, as well as advanced electronics, security, information technology solutions and customer support services. Improving the future and protecting lives is an ambitious mission, but it’s what we do at BAE Systems. Working here means using your passion and ingenuity where it counts – defending national security with breakthrough technology, superior products, and intelligence solutions. As you develop the latest technology and defend national security, you will continually hone your skills on a team—making a big impact on a global scale. At BAE Systems, you’ll find a rewarding career that truly makes a difference.
Intelligence & Security (I&S), based in McLean, Virginia, designs and delivers advanced defense, intelligence, and security solutions that support the important missions of our customers. Our pride and dedication shows in everything we do—from intelligence analysis, cyber operations and IT expertise to systems development, systems integration, and operations and maintenance services. Knowing that our work enables the U.S. military and government to recognize, manage and defeat threats inspires us to push ourselves and our technologies to new levels.
This position will be posted for at least 5 calendar days. The posting will remain active until the position is filled, or a qualified pool of candidates is identified.
Preferred Skills and Education: • Experience working within the defense or intelligence community. • Proficiency in digital content management systems and collaborative design tools. • Experience managing board-level governance documentation.
Benefits Information: Employee Benefits: At BAE Systems, we support our employees in all aspects of their life, including their health and financial well-being. Regular employees scheduled to work 20+ hours per week are offered: health, dental, and vision insurance; health savings accounts; a 401(k) savings plan; disability coverage; and life and accident insurance. We also have an employee assistance program, a legal plan, and other perks including discounts on things like home, auto, and pet insurance. Our leave programs include paid time off, paid holidays, as well as other types of leave, including paid parental, military, bereavement, and any applicable federal and state sick leave. Employees may participate in the company recognition program to receive monetary or non-monetary recognition awards. Other incentives may be available based on position level and/or job specifics.
Intern Benefits: Temporary employees generally are not eligible for BAE Systems benefits, but can elect to participate in the 401(k) savings plan. Temporary employees working 20+ hours per week are eligible for medical benefits, the employee assistance program, and business travel accident insurance.
Please note: Some benefits may be different for union employees that are governed by a collective bargaining agreement (CBA) or for positions covered by a wage law called the McNamara-O’Hara Service Contract Act (SCA).