Future Operational Planner

Join our Deloitte AI & Engineering team to transform technology platforms, drive innovation, and help make a significant impact on our clients' success. You'll work alongside talented professionals reimagining and reengineering operations and processes that are critical to businesses. Your contributions can help clients improve financial performance, accelerate new digital ventures, and fuel growth through innovation.

Work you'll do

The Future Operational Planner supports organizational planning functions by monitoring strategies, policies, directives, and operational requirements. The role is focused on developing plans and orders using operational art and design, facilitating briefings, and integrating new capabilities (including cyber) into planning processes for training, exercises, contingency operations, and ongoing initiatives. This individual acts as a key advisor for current and future operations, bringing subject matter expertise to support synchronized actions across diverse teams and objectives. The role may include support for specialized operations such as amphibious or joint force initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

• Apply expert knowledge of the Marine Corps Planning Process (MCPP) or equivalent structured planning processes in both Service and Joint operational environments.
• Lead Operational Planning Teams (OPTs) in deliberate, crisis action, and contingency planning.
• Provide expertise in force management processes, including force sourcing, allocation, and apportionment.
• Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of organizational capabilities, force structure, and limitations in operational planning and force employment.
• Support Crisis Action Planning Teams (CAPTs) and facilitate the transition from deliberate planning to executable crisis/contingency orders.
• Review, analyze, and provide recommendations for high-level operational plans, orders, and initiatives, including handling information of a sensitive or classified nature.
• Draft and produce order modifications (e.g., FRAGOs, WARNOs) and branch plans, ensuring integration with current operations and broader planning efforts.
• Support planning and operational battle rhythm events, ensuring the capture and timely dissemination of required meeting notes, products, and briefings.
• Maintain planning products, information papers, orders, and directives in compliance with records management requirements.
• Coordinate planning tasks and equities among various functional and planning groups, synchronizing future operations and planning elements.
• Conduct analysis, develop recommendations, and produce planning products under operational timelines and tight deadlines

The team

Our Industry Solutions clients seek verticalized solutions that transform how they sell products, deliver services, generate growth, and fulfill mission-critical operations. The Industry Solutions offering delivers integrated business expertise with repeatable scaled technology solutions that are specifically engineered for each sector's IndustryAdvantageTM.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required
• Active Secret clearance
• 6+ year years of related experience in planning, operational analysis, or a similar function. Demonstrated experience using planning processes in support of organizational strategic or operational objectives.
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future
• Ability to travel 15-25%, on average, based on the work you do and the clientsandindustries/sectorsyou serve.

Preferred:

• Active TS/SCI preferred
• Masters Degree preferred
• Experience supporting teams across multiple locations

The wage range for this role takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs. The disclosed range estimate has not been adjusted for the applicable geographic differential associated with the location at which the position may be filled. At Deloitte, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is $113,325 to $188,875.

You may also be eligible to participate in a discretionary annual incentive program, subject to the rules governing the program, whereby an award, if any, depends on various factors, including, without limitation, individual and organizational performance.

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