Logistics and Maritime Planner

Booz Allen Hamilton

About The Position

Logistics and Maritime Planner The Opportunity: As an expert in defense missions, your unique background inspires you to think bigger, push further, and ask questions others don’t. We need your extensive industry knowledge and advisory skills to solve some of our clients’ most complex problems and find solutions that keep our nation safe. As a Logistics and Maritime Planner, you’ll bring your logistics, maritime, and exercise expertise to support the client’s exercise and Global Force Management planning, providing continuity for participation in major 2, 3, and 4-star service, joint, and combined exercises. As a dedicated logistics and maritime planner, you will use your skills and expertise to research, develop, analyze, assess, plan, and support client exercise planning, providing continuity, expertise, and dedicated focus to enhance their capacity to conduct high-quality planning for major exercises, including Cold Response, Navy Large Scale Exercise, Distributed Aviation Operations exercises, and Atlantic Alliance. You will effectively manage planning and coordination requirements for all assigned exercises. Your key responsibilities will include developing and executing detailed exercise plans of actions and milestones (POA&Ms), identifying required resources, providing mitigation recommendations for resource shortfalls, delivering status updates, briefing senior leaders, leading operational planning teams (OPTs) or working groups (WGs), developing exercise briefs and other information products, and transitioning plans to major subordinate elements. You’ll forecast, coordinate, and synchronize exercise planning requirements with resource requirements via SharePoint, Teams, and other systems. Join us. The world can’t wait.

Requirements

5+ years of experience in USMC or DoD logistics, maritime, and exercise planning, including wargames and exercises, developing military orders, concepts of operations, POA&Ms, and operational plans
Experience on a Marine Corps General Officer Staff
Experience with the MCPP, Joint Planning Process, or Navy Planning Process and the DoD, Service, MEF, and command-level policies, plans, procedures, actions, and milestones necessary for efficient planning, development, and analyses of major exercises
Experience working closely with exercise action officers, coordinating across staff functions and command echelons, and providing support to ELC event planning efforts
Knowledge of Marine Corps logistics operations and maritime pre-positioned forces
Ability to brief senior-level customers, including general and flag officers
Ability to present and effectively advocate client equities at planning conferences, OPTs, and WGs
Ability to travel up to 25% of the time
TS/SCI clearance
Bachelor's degree

Nice To Haves

Experience with USMC or DoD logistics
Master's degree
Completion of Joint Professional Military Education Phase 1 and 2
Graduate of a School of Advanced Warfighting (SAW), Army School of Advanced Military Studies (SAMS), or Joint or Service equivalent

Responsibilities

Developing and executing detailed exercise plans of actions and milestones (POA&Ms)
Identifying required resources
Providing mitigation recommendations for resource shortfalls
Delivering status updates
Briefing senior leaders
Leading operational planning teams (OPTs) or working groups (WGs)
Developing exercise briefs and other information products
Transitioning plans to major subordinate elements
Forecasting, coordinating, and synchronizing exercise planning requirements with resource requirements via SharePoint, Teams, and other systems