Location: Stevenage
Salary: Up to £60,000 P/A + Bonus and benefits
Hours: 37 hours per week
Working with a world leading, technical engineering organisation, we have an exciting opportunity for a highly experienced Operational Analyst You will be rewarded with an excellent remuneration package and the opportunity to develop your career with options of team leadership in the future.
The Operational Analyst role includes scoping, leading and contributing to a wide range of analytical studies and experimentation exercises. The emphasis is on how future products will be used and how they can contribute to operational capability for the customer in a cost-effective way. The Operational Analyst is likely to be an experienced problem solver with a broad understanding of the military operational environment.
The Operational Analyst will work closely with internal and external stakeholders to scope, plan and deliver a wide range of OA, experimentation and decision support studies. The successful candidate will promote the work of the team; build and maintain relationships with internal and external customers, be responsible for developing new work for the team. The Operational Analyst will also be responsible for supporting the development of OA functional capability, through the effective development of people, tools, methods and knowledge management activities.
Skills and Qualifications
- Ideally degree (or equivalent) in a relevant discipline
- Basic understanding of Systems engineering processes
- Broad understanding of the military operational environment
- Awareness and practical experience of a range of OA techniques
- Strong analytical skills and systems thinking; able to structure information, draw conclusions and make recommendations
- Able to prepare clear concise reports and presentations
- Able to deliver presentations and lead workshops, pitching information at the right level of detail
- Proactive, able to seek out contacts, elicit information and suggest solutions
- Able to lead small teams, work as part of a team and liaise with others at all levels throughout the company, and build effective relationships with customers
- Experience of managing and developing people
- Able to define and execute a ‘Concept of Analysis’ (approach / plan) that meets customer needs
- Able to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team, that may be dispersed and international in nature
- Able to see and understand the ‘big picture’ and think about many things at once, as well as keeping track of the detail
- Thrives in a working environment where there can be frequent change, uncertainty and ambiguity
- Potential and willingness to develop within the OA Sector
Please Note: Due to the nature of work undertaken at our client's site, this position requires candidates to be able to meet special nationality rules and therefore these vacancies are only open to sole British Citizens. Applicants who meet these criteria will also be required to undergo security clearance vetting, if not already security cleared to a minimum SC level.
Please note; Due to the occasional high amount of applications, it can be difficult to reply to everyone. If you haven’t been contacted within 1 working week, then you haven’t been successful on this occasion. However, thank you for your interest.
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