Operations Strategist III

Overview

Support the strategic planning, execution, and optimization of initiatives ranging from small pilots to large-scale programs. Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to define objectives, develop business cases, and align resources to strategic priorities. Lead the design and implementation of operational frameworks that enhance process efficiency, elevate standards, and deliver measurable impact. Produce high-level insights, competitive analyses, and strategic recommendations through reports, presentations, and roadmaps. Cultivate key partnerships and apply market intelligence to inform strategic direction and innovation.

Responsibilities

• Develop, plan, and oversee implementation of solutions to drive the NFCU strategies ensuring processes, systems, operations, quality assessments and service standards are targeted to support superior objectives
• Provide advanced strategic analysis and recommendations to assist key decisions made by senior leadership through the use of strategic frameworks (e.g. SWOT)
• Lead and oversee project teams on complex initiatives of significant business impact across the organization
• Prepare and deliver complex project plans, proposals, schedules, communications, and resource impacts
• Analyze and review operational dashboards with project progress, resource allocation, and communication status
• Oversee regular project reviews to assess business alignment and identify areas for improvement
• Oversee benchmarking standards research including measuring goals against performance, continuous improvement, and potential use of industry-leading vendors
• Review processes / programs / services across different functional and operational areas to identify, capture, analyze, assess and recommend improvements that align with strategic priorities
• Identify and collaborate with various levels of staff to accomplish tasks / assignments
• As a member of the cross functional team, apply Agile / Lean principles to continuously incrementally improve complex operation strategies for the branch
• Monitor key performance indicators and determine gaps in performance metrics
• Partner with business units to determine benchmarking targets to ensure effective processes are in place, including proactive and reactive initiatives review of assignments,

quality assurance, and cross-servicing of operations and services

Qualifications

Desired Qualifications

Hours : Monday - Friday, 8 : 00AM - 4 : 30PM

Locations : 820 Follin Lane, Vienna, VA 22180 | 5510 Heritage Oaks Drive, Pensacola, FL 32526 | 141 Security Drive, Winchester, VA 22602 | 9999 Willow Creek Road, San Diego, CA 92131 | 295 Bendix Rd Suite 250, Virginia Beach, VA 23452 | 11270 St Johns Industrial Parkway, South Jacksonville, FL 32246 | 9001 Airport Freeway 9th Floor Suite 925, North Richland Hills, TX 76180 | 4 Concourse Pkwy, Suite #100 Sandy Springs, GA 30328

About Us

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