Business Operations Associate

Anduril Anduril · Defense · Costa Mesa, CA · Corporate Technology : Business Operations

This role is for a Business Operations Associate at a defense technology company. The primary responsibilities include improving the company's operations by building data-capture and analytics-reporting capabilities, and executing special projects that solve complex, cross-functional problems. The role involves owning operational projects end-to-end, working with data from business systems, and project managing across various stakeholders. It requires strong analytical aptitude, problem-solving skills, and the ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment.

What you'd actually do

  1. Own operational projects end-to-end, from definition, to solutioning, to implementation. You will be handed ambiguous problems with little prescription on how to solve them. If this does not _excite_ you, this is not the role for you.
  2. Work on strategic problems, providing structure to ambiguity and helping shepherd cross-functional groups of stakeholders towards decisions on strategic issues. The role will ask you to couple first principles thinking with creative and iterative analysis to fully detail the impacts of potential decisions.
  3. Work deeply within data and systems, become intimately familiar with how our business systems (ERP, MRP, HRIS, etc.) function, and leverage data from them to execute scrappy analyses on short timelines, all the while equipping functional teams with insights and tools to measure and improve their processes.
  4. Project manage across large groups of stakeholders including, leading large meetings, managing large Slack channels, and wrangling stakeholders towards a solution. This role requires the ability to translate across Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Finance, Engineering, HR, Recruiting, Deployments, and more.

Skills

Required

  • 1+ years of experience in a management consulting, investment banking, internal strategy & operations, or business analyst role
  • Strong analytical aptitude
  • Ability to quickly execute analyses in Excel or SQL
  • Comfortable communicating broadly and having a lot of eyes on your work
  • Self-driven and relentlessly proactive
  • Ability to build clear frameworks to structure problems

Nice to have

  • Experience with ERP, MRP, HRIS systems

What the JD emphasized

  • ambiguous problems
  • messiest problems
  • messy
  • ambiguity
  • messy problems