Senior Industrial Economics & Strategy Analyst

ACT1 Federal; Arlington (VA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

ESOP

Life insurance

AD&D

STD

HSA

401K

PTO

Paid Holidays

Flexible Spending Accounts

Job summary

ACT1 Federal is seeking a Senior Business and Economics Analyst to provide private-capital, infrastructure, energy, and policy analysis in support of industrial-base decisions. This full-time, day-shift, in-office position requires Top Secret clearance.

The analyst will build transparent models, evaluate market and labor dynamics, and prepare executive briefings for senior DASN DIB leaders. Travel is not required; onsite collaboration is expected.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in business, management, economics, or a related discipline.
• 10+ years’ experience in economics, industrial-base analysis, corporate finance, market analysis, or a closely related field.
• Demonstrated expertise applying microeconomics, industrial organization, quantitative methods, and financial analysis to complex questions.
• Experience assessing market structure, supplier viability, production economics, workforce constraints, or policy alternatives.
• Experience developing transparent models and communicating findings clearly.

Responsibilities

• Analyze market structure, concentration, competition, barriers to entry and exit, vertical integration, bargaining power, scale economies, learning effects, and minimum sustaining rates.
• Assess production capacity, utilization, throughput, lead time, and costs under different scenarios.
• Evaluate critical suppliers and sectors for viability, foreign dependencies, and geographic concentration.
• Analyze labor markets, wages, workforce demographics, and housing/infrastructure constraints affecting capacity.
• Develop cost-benefit, risk, and affordability analyses to inform decisions.
• Prepare executive briefings and decision memoranda for senior leaders.

Skills

Economics

Industrial economics

Financial analysis

Quantitative methods

Modeling

Executive briefings

Education

Bachelor's degree in business/economics

Tools

Excel

R

Stata

Job description

ACT1 Federal is seeking a Senior Business and Economics Analyst to provide private-capital, infrastructure, energy, and policy analysis in support of industrial-base decisions. This full-time, day-shift, in-office position requires Top Secret clearance.

The analyst will build transparent models, evaluate market and labor dynamics, and prepare executive briefings for senior DASN DIB leaders. Travel is not required; onsite collaboration is expected.