Shipboard OSC Acceleration Lead
About The Position
The Shipboard OSC Acceleration Lead drives operational excellence, accelerates business performance, and enables data-driven decision-making across the Shipboard Missiles portfolio. The role integrates Operations, Supply Chain, Program Management, Finance, and functional leadership to improve material and labor sales execution, on-time delivery (OTD), and overall operational performance. The Acceleration Lead establishes and maintains a disciplined performance management framework, identifies execution gaps, coordinates recovery actions, and develops automated reporting and analytical capabilities to improve visibility, predictability, and decision-making. The position requires analytical experience, cross-functional leadership, business acumen, and the ability to translate complex operational data into actionable strategies that deliver measurable results.
Requirements
- A university degree or equivalent experience and at least 10 years of relevant experience, or an advanced degree in a related field and at least 7 years of experience.
- Experience in operations, supply chain, program management, manufacturing, or financial performance management.
- Experience with business performance metrics, forecasting, and operational reporting.
- An active and transferable U.S. government-issued Secret security clearance before the start date, with the ability to obtain a higher clearance level or program access before the start date.
- U.S. citizenship is required because only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance.
Nice To Haves
- Experience within aerospace and defense manufacturing or complex production environments.
- Understanding of AOP, EAC, material sales, labor sales, and program financial management.
- Experience with SAP, Power BI, Power Automate, or similar business intelligence and automation tools.
- Familiarity with production scheduling, material planning, supply chain execution, and OTD management.
- Experience developing automated reporting solutions and integrated performance dashboards.
Responsibilities
- Lead portfolio-level material sales performance analysis and track actuals against Annual Operating Plan (AOP) forecasts.
- Develop and maintain material sales forecasting tools, identifying critical milestones, constraints, and execution dependencies.
- Coordinate cross-functional actions to accelerate material availability, production throughput, and sales conversion.
- Improve material sales predictability through standardized reporting, trend analysis, and proactive risk identification.
- Monitor and analyze labor sales performance across the Shipboard portfolio, including actuals, forecasts, and performance against operating plans.
- Partner with Operations, Finance, and program leadership to identify labor sales opportunities, execution gaps, and recovery strategies.
- Analyze labor utilization, staffing constraints, production schedules, and other factors affecting labor sales performance.
- Coordinate actions to improve labor sales execution and alignment with production commitments.
- Develop forward-looking labor sales projections to support proactive business decisions and resource planning.
- Integrate portfolio-level OTD performance by coordinating improvement initiatives across programs, factories, and functional organizations.
- Identify systemic delivery constraints, schedule risks, and recurring performance drivers through detailed analysis.
- Facilitate cross-functional recovery plans to address delivery shortfalls and improve schedule adherence.
- Monitor critical path activities and ensure appropriate escalation of risks affecting customer commitments.
- Identify and share best practices across programs to improve delivery performance sustainably.
- Conduct performance analysis to identify emerging trends, execution gaps, and opportunities for acceleration.
- Establish consistent metric definitions, data sources, and reporting standards across the Shipboard portfolio.
- Provide actionable insights and executive-level reporting to support timely leadership decisions.
- Develop leading indicators for proactive identification of operational and financial risks.
- Support portfolio operating reviews with clear, concise, data-driven performance assessments.
Benefits
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Life insurance
- Short-term disability
- Long-term disability
- 401(k) match
- Flexible spending accounts
- Flexible work schedules
- Employee assistance program
- Employee Scholar Program
- Parental leave
- Paid time off
- Holidays
- Annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation programs may be available, depending on position level and collective-bargaining coverage; payments are not guaranteed.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
