B1 Bomber Engagement Lead

B1 Bomber Engagement Lead

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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