Senior Business Operations Specialist

Spirit AeroSystems • Tulsa, OK

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About The Position

This role is at Spirit AeroSystems, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of The Boeing Company, supporting Spirit’s Commercial Business Units (“Spirit Commercial”). Spirit Commercial designs and builds commercial aerostructures, including for Boeing Commercial Airplanes. Its core products include fuselages, pylons, nacelles, and wing components, with a focus on innovative composite and aluminum manufacturing solutions.

The Senior Business Operations Specialist contributes to proposal management, EAC, earned value, milestones, and program checkbooks. The role coordinates, integrates, analyzes, develops, and packages site executive briefing materials, bringing together functional inputs and preparing executive-level reports and presentations. It compiles and analyzes operational and financial metrics to support informed leadership decisions, provides trend analysis, and helps improve reporting and analytics processes. The role works across functions to develop integrated EACs, business cases, and milestones.

Requirements

• 10 or more years of related experience with a bachelor’s degree, or 7 or more years of experience with a master’s degree.
• Degree in business, finance, or a related field.
• Business perspective, business acumen, and analytics capability.
• Strong Microsoft PowerPoint and Excel skills, including VLOOKUP, HLOOKUP, pivot tables, advanced formulas, and charting.
• Detail-oriented and self-starting.
• Strong written communication skills, including executive-level presentations, and strong oral communication skills.

Nice To Haves

• Strategic metrics and program perspective, with the ability to see the enterprise view.
• Ability to support storytelling through visualization for executive program reviews.
• Finance analytics and metrics experience and the ability to make complex information simple.
• Ability to design and develop reports and analytics using the current suite of products.
• Ability to perform in-depth analysis, including variance explanations and metrics validation.
• Excel analysis skills, including pivot tables, VLOOKUP, and HLOOKUP.
• Advanced PowerPoint skills, critical thinking, and creative chart development.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to proposal management, EAC, earned value, milestones, and program checkbooks.
• Coordinate preliminary meetings and dry runs for site executive briefing packages.
• Integrate inputs from finance, supply chain management, operations, and other functions.
• Develop data charts and reports, polish executive-level briefing packages, and conduct final reviews with executive leadership.
• Compile and analyze operational and financial metrics and other data to support senior leadership decision-making.
• Use data aggregation, data mining, and reporting techniques to provide trend analysis and accurate information for business decisions.
• Design and continuously improve reporting and analytics processes.
• Consult with operations, finance, human resources, quality, and other business managers to develop integrated EACs, business cases, and milestones.

Benefits

• Competitive base pay and variable compensation opportunities.
• Eligible employees may enroll in health insurance, flexible spending accounts, health savings accounts, retirement savings plans, life and disability insurance programs, and programs providing paid and unpaid time away from work.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior