B1 Bomber Engagement Lead

Job Title: B1 Bomber Engagement Lead
Job Location: Oklahoma City, OK
Compensation: $150,000 - $200,000
Eligibility/Clearance: Candidate must possess an active Secret clearance
Job Description:
Position Overview
Our client is seeking an Engagement Lead (Management Consultant) to lead
our support to the Air Force B-1 System Program Office (SPO) at Tinker
Air Force Base. The initial 16-week effort will improve how the SPO
manages fleet readiness by establishing a current-state baseline,
assessing the data and integration landscape, prioritizing and designing
a minimum viable product, and developing an implementation roadmap. The
Engagement Lead is the senior, accountable consulting leader for this
work: framing the problem with SPO leadership, owning the integrated
workplan and quality of every deliverable, and making sure
recommendations become routines the SPO actually runs.
This role requires both consulting leadership and genuine weapon-system
credibility. You will bring the readiness and sustainment context to
distinguish how decisions are actually made from how a process appears
on paper, and the consulting discipline to turn incomplete data,
cross-organizational dependencies, and ambiguous operational problems
into clear decisions, requirements, and executable plans. The role is
hands-on: you will personally structure analyses, build and refine
PowerPoint and Excel deliverables, and run working sessions with SPO
leaders, logisticians, engineers, program managers, depot and production
personnel, supply-chain stakeholders, and an integrated consulting and
digital team.
Key Responsibilities
Client Leadership & Trusted Advisory: Serve as the senior day-to-day
consulting interface with B-1 SPO leadership; frame ambiguous readiness
problems into clear points of view and practical recommendations; and
design and facilitate executive meetings and decision forums.
Current-State Readiness Baseline: Lead interviews and working sessions
that document current readiness processes, decision rights, information
flows, constraints, and pain points across program management, product
support, engineering, depot and field maintenance, and supply.
Future-State Readiness Management: Define the future-state approach,
including decision forums, roles, key performance indicators, business
rules, escalation paths, and recurring management routines that can be
built into the SPO’s operating rhythm.
Data, Requirements & MVP Leadership: Partner with data engineers and
architects to assess readiness data sources, quality, and integration
constraints, and translate operational needs into use cases, analytic
requirements, data definitions, and acceptance criteria for a
prioritized minimum viable product.
Readiness Driver Analysis: Lead or guide root-cause analyses of
readiness drivers, including maintenance, supply, MICAP, depot
production, engineering, and reliability issues, using FMEA or
comparable structured methods.
Consulting Delivery & Quality: Own the engagement from problem
definition through roadmap, including scope, hypotheses, workplan,
milestones, and risks; personally develop and refine executive-ready
briefings, process maps, requirements, trackers, and the implementation
roadmap.
Stakeholder & Partner Integration: Engage depot, wing and squadron,
supply-chain, DLA, and other enterprise partners to validate findings
and remove barriers, and define clear roles, interfaces, and decision
rights with teaming partners within an integrated team.
Account Growth & Commercial Stewardship: Manage staffing, budget, and
delivery risk; build durable relationships across the B-1 enterprise;
and identify and shape follow-on opportunities with growth and capture
leaders.
Required
10+ years of professional experience, including 5+ years in management,
strategy, or transformation consulting (or a comparable client-services
environment) leading engagements or major workstreams with direct
accountability for senior-client relationships and executive-level
outputs.
8+ years of Department of War experience in aviation readiness,
weapon-system sustainment, logistics, maintenance, supply chain,
engineering, product support, or program management (may overlap with
consulting experience).
Direct experience supporting the B-1, another Air Force bomber, or a
comparably complex Air Force weapon system in a program office, depot,
operational unit, supply-chain organization, or sustainment command.
Working knowledge of the relationships among program management, product
support, depot maintenance, field maintenance, engineering, supply
support, and operational readiness.
Demonstrated record of assessing current-state processes and converting
findings into a future-state operating approach, prioritized
improvements, and an executable implementation roadmap.
Ability to define and interpret readiness measures, identify underlying
drivers, and connect metrics to authoritative data sources and
management decisions.
Advanced PowerPoint and Excel skills, including the ability to
personally structure analyses and build executive-ready story lines
without a large support team.
Exceptional facilitation, executive presence, and written communication;
able to lead discussions with senior leaders and technical specialists
and drive decisions in the room.
Strong program management across scope, schedule, quality, resources,
risk, and follow-through, including coordinating roles and work scope
with teaming partners.
Experience identifying, shaping, and advancing follow-on work from
existing client relationships.
Bachelor’s degree.
Ability to obtain and maintain a DoD Secret clearance and meet Tinker
Air Force Base installation access and suitability requirements.
Ability to work on site at Tinker Air Force Base.
Preferred
Active DoD Secret clearance or higher.
Current or prior B-1 experience within the B-1 Division (AFLCMC/WBN),
Air Force Life Cycle Management Center, Air Force Sustainment Center,
Oklahoma City Air Logistics Complex, Air Force Global Strike Command,
the 448th Supply Chain Management Wing, DLA, or a B-1 operational or
maintenance unit.
Prior experience as a Product Support Manager, logistician, maintenance
or production leader, systems engineer, program manager, or readiness
analyst, combined with subsequent consulting leadership experience.
Experience with readiness dashboards, digital-product or
minimum-viable-product development, data integration, or data
governance, including familiarity with Air Force readiness and logistics
data systems (e.g., REMIS, WSMIS-RAM, D035A, D043).
Experience performing MICAP, FMEA, reliability, availability, or
supply-chain root-cause analysis for aviation readiness.
Experience in a top-tier strategy or management consulting firm, or a
consulting environment with comparable standards for client leadership,
analytics, and executive communications.
Master’s degree or other relevant advanced degree.
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