Senior Strategic Planner & Change Leader

Defense Logistics Agency; Battle Creek (MI); On-site; USD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Defense Logistics Agency in the United States seeks a Strategic Planning Specialist to lead cross-functional analysis, translate strategic objectives into executable initiatives, and monitor progress toward mission priorities. You will develop executive briefings, dashboards, and data visualizations for senior leaders, while guiding culture and change-management initiatives across the organization.

The role emphasizes coordinating enterprise strategies, assessing risks, and recommending

Qualifications

• Specialized experience designing, developing, and implementing agency initiatives, projects, or programs.
• Monitoring and evaluating operations and performance to improve procedures.
• Planning and coordinating initiatives with milestones, priorities, and measurable outcomes.
• Consolidating information into briefings, reports, or data visualizations for leadership.
• Advising senior leaders on organizational culture and workforce engagement.

Responsibilities

• Serves as a senior strategic planning advisor on cross-functional teams, providing analysis and recommendations that support organizational priorities, mission requirements, and senior-leader decisions.
• Develops and implements major portions of the strategic plan and annual operating plan, converting strategic objectives into executable initiatives, milestones, performance measures, and accountable actions.
• Coordinates enterprise strategic initiatives across organizational elements to align priorities, supporting tasks, timelines, dependencies, and expected outcomes.
• Monitors strategic-plan and annual-operating-plan execution, tracks progress against established objectives, identifies implementation barriers, and recommends corrective actions.
• Evaluates operations, business information, processes, performance metrics, and mission-support activities to identify risks, shortfalls, inefficiencies, and opportunities for improvement.
• Analyzes reports, data, and organizational indicators to identify trends and root causes affecting organizational performance, workforce capability, readiness, and mission execution.
• Develops executive-level briefings, decision papers, reports, dashboards, presentations, and data visualizations that provide researched, integrated, and actionable information for senior leaders.
• Develops and coordinates strategic communications that inform the workforce and stakeholders of organizational priorities, services, capabilities, initiatives, performance results, and change efforts.
• Leads command-climate and organizational-culture assessment efforts by reviewing survey results, employee feedback, workforce concerns, and year-over-year trends.
• Identifies culture-related risks, barriers, and improvement opportunities affecting employee engagement, trust, collaboration, retention, leadership effectiveness, and organizational readiness.
• Coordinates the Culture Action Team or similar governance forum, develops measurable culture-improvement actions, assigns responsible action owners, monitors milestones, and facilitates resolution of recurring issues.
• Advises senior leaders on organizational culture, workforce engagement, and change-management matters, providing evidence-based recommendations and assessing the effectiveness of improvement initiatives.

Skills

Strategic planning

Data analysis

Executive briefing

Cross-functional teamwork

Change management

Performance measurement

Job description

Defense Logistics Agency in the United States seeks a Strategic Planning Specialist to lead cross-functional analysis, translate strategic objectives into executable initiatives, and monitor progress toward mission priorities. You will develop executive briefings, dashboards, and data visualizations for senior leaders, while guiding culture and change-management initiatives across the organization.

The role emphasizes coordinating enterprise strategies, assessing risks, and recommending