Early Career Business Operations Specialist

About the Role

We are seeking a Business Operations Specialist to join our dynamic team. These positions require reporting onsite due to the nature of the work. Candidates are expected to team with others to support Sandia's mission by adding value, improving operations, offering innovative solutions, and appropriately managing risk for the corporation.

Position Information

The Business Operations Specialist provides leadership decision support through financial management, business planning, assurance, and operational execution. They communicate policy, workforce/resource planning, cost standards, and risk analysis. Facilitating cross-team collaboration, they develop integrated solutions for complex challenges, ensuring compliance and adaptability to evolving business models while driving initiatives aligned with organizational goals.

On any given day, you may be called on to:

• Provide leadership with data-driven decision intelligence on a broad range of business areas, including financial planning, resource management, operational strategy, and business processes.
• Collaborate with operational partners to identify, plan, and achieve both short-term and long-term business and operational needs.
• Develop and coordinate communication plans and strategies to effectively convey operational and financial information to stakeholders.
• Analyze operations, processes, trends, and resources to advise on the most efficient methods for accomplishing mission objectives.
• Prepare financial plans, alternatives, strategies, and resource forecasts; monitors implementation and prepares regular reports on financial performance and initiative status.
• Participate in proposal submissions, contributing to the development of cost estimates and budget justifications.
• Facilitate cross-functional teams to design, implement, and drive rapid integrated solutions to complex operational problems, ensuring alignment with mission and business objectives.
• Facilitate and coordinate sponsor/customer and stakeholder interactions, including team communications and meetings, while tracking planned deliverables.
• Advise management on corporate policy interpretation and application, recommend implementation options, and identify associated risks to support decision making.
• Identify areas for improvement within the customer's business operations and develop strategies to enhance organizational efficiency and effectiveness.

Salary Range: $74,700 - $144,400

Salary range is estimated, and actual salary will be determined after consideration of the selected candidate's experience and qualifications, and application of any approved geographic salary differential.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Project Management, Accounting, Finance, or relevant discipline.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a DOE Q-level security clearance.

Qualifications We Desire

• Master's degree in Business Administration.
• Strong analytical and critical thinking skills, with the ability to apply these skills to resolve complex business and operational issues.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to present information clearly and coherently, at a detail level appropriate for the audience.
• Ability to work effectively with leadership and interact with all levels of internal and external personnel to build effective working relationships.
• Ability to monitor overall financial performance and utilize financial analysis, and relevant software, to evaluate alternatives and opportunities.
• Organizational skills, including the ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks.
• Agility in moving between strategic and tactical levels.
• Data analytics and data literacy skills.

About Our Team

Mission Services provides essential business services that support Labs operations. From supply chain to project controls, finance, and integrated business management; Mission Services ensures that every mission at Sandia has the necessary equipment, materials, project management, and business support necessary to keep The Mission moving. Our vision is to transform our services for mission success and support Sandia's national security mission by innovating, partnering with our customers, and addressing issues directly. We aim to significantly enhance our mission delivery, increase our value to sponsors, clients, national security partners at the Sandia Field Office (SFO), and internal customers, while fostering trust in our teams. Our 10000 staff is matrixed to support various missions across the Labs.

Security Clearance

Sandia is required by DOE to conduct a pre-employment drug test and background review that includes checks of personal references, credit, law enforcement records, and employment/education verifications. Applicants for employment need to be able to obtain and maintain a DOE Q-level security clearance, which requires U.S. citizenship. If you hold more than one citizenship (i.e., of the U.S. and another country), your ability to obtain a security clearance may be impacted. Applicants offered employment with Sandia are subject to a federal background investigation to meet the requirements for access to classified information or matter if the duties of the position require a DOE security clearance. Substance abuse or illegal drug use, falsification of information, criminal activity, serious misconduct, or other indicators of untrustworthiness can cause a clearance to be denied or terminated by DOE, resulting in the inability to perform the duties assigned and subsequent termination of employment.