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Department Summary:

The MITRE Enterprise Staffing Accelerator Cell is seeking a Business Operations Lead to join our team. The Business Operations Lead will play a crucial role in ensuring the smooth and efficient functioning of the Enterprise Staffing effort. The Enterprise Staffing effort is a fast paced, agile program with critical milestones for our business units and staff.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Maintain and support the MITRE enterprise staffing products and materials in support of knowledge management
• Observe, review and analyze "how we work" to identify inefficiencies and areas where improvements could be made through team retrospectives
• Assist PL with project-related staffing, allocation management, budgeting, and any related integration, coordination, and communications activities
• Own products such as the training for new Hybrid Reports for business units and people leaders
• Collect and analyze data related to success metrics - this can involve generating reports, identifying trends, and making data-driven recommendations to improve
  Performing administrative tasks, such as meeting coordination, submitting purchasing requisitions, administering data calls, contract support, etc.
• Maintain a positive and professional working relationship with peers, management, and support resources, with a constant commitment to teamwork and exemplary customer service.

Basic Qualifications:

• Typically requires a minimum of 8 years of related experience with a Bachelor's degree; or 6 years and a Master's degree; or a PhD with 3 years' experience; or equivalent combination of related education and work experience.
• Quantitative mindset with proven skills in financial management and budgeting
• Experience overseeing project management and creating presentations and visualizations of timelines, milestones, and objectives related to budgets and resources.
• Significant experience and demonstrated excellence partnering with support functions, including human resources, finance, contracts, and talent acquisition
• Excellent communication skills, works well independently and within a team
• Demonstrated experience with Microsoft products including OneDrive, Teams, SharePoint Online, OneNote, Excel, and PowerPoint.
• Good time management, prioritization and multitasking abilities
• Excellent interpersonal skills to build strong relationships with colleagues
• Comfortable in a high-pressure environment

Preferred Qualifications:

• Proven track record of streamlining processes or reducing waste in previous roles
• Experience working with Salesforce.com
• Experience is operations or finance in a diverse, technology-focused organization

This requisition requires the candidate to have a minimum of the following clearance(s):
None

This requisition requires the hired candidate to have or obtain, within one year from the date of hire, the following clearance(s):
None

Work Location Type:
Hybrid

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