Business Operations Specialist II

About the role

The Business Operations Specialist II drives key cross-organization business processes within Elbit America’s Warfighter Systems (WS) division, ensuring business execution needs are both timely and of high quality. This role requires an individual comfortable with and capable of taking the initiative and providing informal guidance to team members. The Business Operations Analyst II must be capable of effective communication at multiple organizational levels.

Responsibilities

• Aid in managing the execution of key, cross-functional business processes, including Annual Capital Planning, Annual Internal Research and Development (IRAD) Planning, Annual 5-year Strategic Planning, and Annual Strategic Goal Deployment (SGD).
• Support the execution of key, cross-functional business processes and meetings, such as Checkpoint/Stage Gate process, Monthly WS Business and Operations Review meetings, and WS prep for Headquarters' (HQ) Monthly Operations and Business Review (MOAB) meetings.
• Oversee the execution of assigned processes to ensure compliance with governing procedures and guidelines.
• Collaborate with leadership stakeholders for the execution of assigned processes to ensure alignment with business goals.
• Lead and conduct process meetings as needed.
• Issue timely meeting minutes.
• Maintain and drive timely, quality resolution of the action item list.
• Determine, communicate, and maintain an operating cadence that supports achievement of annual goals and supports HQ's operating cadence requirements, including meetings such as WS Business Review, SIOP, Ops Review, and Leadership Conference.
• Work closely with Finance to ensure complete and accurate project/program financials are provided to PMs and PEMs.
• Engage directly with the Senior Leadership Team for process oversight, status report outs, and for any help needed.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in business administration or similar.
• 2+ years of relevant business operations experience.
• Ability to lead cross-organizational processes.
• Proficient with the Microsoft Office suite of tools, especially PowerPoint and Excel.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills at the executive level.
• Ability to handle multiple high priorities; comfortable with ambiguity.
• Project management experience preferred.