Total 189 Business Management / Project / Planning job vacancies in Chesapeake County, Virginia

Regional Lens Account Manager job covering Northern Ireland. Zest Optical are currently looking to recruit a Regional Lens Account Manager for a leading manufacturer of Ophthalmic Lenses. The purpose of this role is to build strong business relationships with customers in the independent optical market across Northern Ireland.

The Regional Lens Account Manager will effectively increase and develop the sales of lens products within the given geographical territory, across the Independent and Lab Channels.

Regional Lens Account Manager - Role

• Achieve agreed sales targets for value within specified area
• Educate and train all levels of customers' employees within account base on features and benefits of all listed products, generic technical and optical knowledge, and generic sales skills and techniques to improve product mix and overall sales within account base.
• Through the use of persuasion and compelling arguments increase sales versus the competition throughout account base
• Provide excellent customer service to the account base through regular calls, follow up and ongoing contact to meet customer requirements
• Operate within agreed cost budgets for entertainment and expenses through planning the most economical coverage of the territory
• Execute joint marketing/local promotions that have been formally agreed to drive sales

Regional Lens Account Manager - Requirements

• FBDO qualification / Practice Manager
• Working on own initiative to tight deadlines
• Ability to communicate at all levels both verbally and in writing

Regional Lens Account Manager - Salary

• Base salary up to £32,500
• Excellent bonus scheme
• Company car and a range of additional benefits

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• You will plan, assign and evaluate work of subordinate employees, ensuring timely performance of a satisfactory amount/quality of work based on priorities, difficulty, requirements of assignments, and capabilities of employees.
• You will develop new techniques and establish new approaches and methods for IT procedures, plans, and techniques, and participate in the IT capital planning process
• You will establish and monitor metrics used in evaluating the accomplishment of IT goals and objectives and develops and uphold strategic plans.
• You will manage audits of IT programs and projects; and/or ensure the demanding application of information security/information assurance guidelines, principles, and practices in the distribution of planning and management services.
• You will manage and oversee the maintenance of the hardware and software installed on the various networks, operates as a standalone, or used to support various industrial equipment used by NNSY.
• You will develop procedures and processes to ensure information systems dependability and accessibility and to prevent and protect against unauthorized access to systems, networks, and information.
• You will conduct risk and vulnerability assessments of scheduled and installed information systems to recognize vulnerabilities, risks, and defense needs.

As a INFORMATION OPERATIONS PLANNER at the GS-0301-13 some of your typical work assignments may include:

• Creates/executes the Joint Training Environment within the Joint Event Life Cycle. Replicates and synchronizes the Information Environment and designs exercises based on exercise / training objectives and realistic operational environments.
• Produces, disseminates, and coordinates appropriate planning products and documents to ensure effective training of Information Operations, Operations in the Information Environment, and application of Information as a joint function.
• Coordinates with Special Technical Operations (STO), Cyberspace, Electronic Warfare, and Space SMEs in planning, organizing, and executing non kinetic activities to support key JS operational training/exercise programs.
• Engages Information Communities of Interest (COI) in advocating for joint Information Operations training and readiness. Initiate actions and coordination with OSD, Combatant Commands (CCMD), Services, and Agencies to obtain strategies, plans, policies, Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs).
• Provides guidance and recommendations regarding Operations in the Information Environment, Information Capabilities and the joint training system in reviewing strategy, policy and plans with joint force implications at the strategic and operational level, providing response to congressional queries, Inspector General (IG) assessments, and external studies.

As a INFORMATION OPERATIONS PLANNER at the GS-0301-13 some of your typical work assignments may include:

• Creates/executes the Joint Training Environment within the Joint Event Life Cycle. Replicates and synchronizes the Information Environment and designs exercises based on exercise / training objectives and realistic operational environments.
• Produces, disseminates, and coordinates appropriate planning products and documents to ensure effective training of Information Operations, Operations in the Information Environment, and application of Information as a joint function.
• Coordinates with Special Technical Operations (STO), Cyberspace, Electronic Warfare, and Space SMEs in planning, organizing, and executing non kinetic activities to support key JS operational training/exercise programs.
• Engages Information Communities of Interest (COI) in advocating for joint Information Operations training and readiness. Initiate actions and coordination with OSD, Combatant Commands (CCMD), Services, and Agencies to obtain strategies, plans, policies, Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs).
• Provides guidance and recommendations regarding Operations in the Information Environment, Information Capabilities and the joint training system in reviewing strategy, policy and plans with joint force implications at the strategic and operational level, providing response to congressional queries, Inspector General (IG) assessments, and external studies.

This Information Technology Project Manager (INFOSEC) position is located Information Technology, End User Service Division, Field IT Services & Support Branch, Transportation Security Administration, Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Duties include but are not limited to:

• Exercises a full range of supervisory and personnel management authorities and responsibilities in directing work of subordinate staff. Coordinates and evaluates subordinates' work to assure balanced workload and timely responses to assigned actions. Gives advice, counsel, or instruction to employees on both work and administrative matters.
• Establishes and maintains guidelines and controls, and manages the overall projects to include acquisition strategy, budget planning, engineering life cycle activities, developmental and operational and support, component procurement, and outsourcing. Provides expert technical skills and services to provide optimum solutions to complex and sensitive issues and difficult problems, often requiring innovative methods to achieve results.
• Advises, manages, and adheres to policy recommendations while ensuring compliance with existing IT security, cybersecurity, acquisition, enterprise change control and configuration management policies on a routine basis. Ensures the application of information security/information assurance policies, principles, and practices in the delivery of information technology services.
• Ensure that appropriate Service-Level Agreements (SLAs) and underpinning contracts have been defined that clearly set out for the customer a description of the service and the measures for monitoring the service. Work with other service managers and product owners to balance and prioritize services to meet overall customer requirements, constraints, and objectives. Supervise, manage, and participate in the acquisition process as necessary. Supervises COR activities generally appropriate for contract vehicles of moderate to high complexity to include both supply and service contracts.

This Information Technology Project Manager (INFOSEC) position is located Enterprise Support, Information Technology, End User Service Division, Field IT Services & Support Branch, Transportation Security Administration, Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Duties include but are not limited to:

• Exercises a full range of supervisory and personnel management authorities and responsibilities in directing work of subordinate staff. Coordinates and evaluates subordinates' work to assure balanced workload and timely responses to assigned actions. Gives advice, counsel, or instruction to employees on both work and administrative matters.
• Establishes and maintains guidelines and controls, and manages the overall projects to include acquisition strategy, budget planning, engineering life cycle activities, developmental and operational and support, component procurement, and outsourcing. Provides expert technical skills and services to provide optimum solutions to complex and sensitive issues and difficult problems, often requiring innovative methods to achieve results.
• Advises, manages, and adheres to policy recommendations while ensuring compliance with existing IT security, cybersecurity, acquisition, enterprise change control and configuration management policies on a routine basis. Ensures the application of information security/information assurance policies, principles, and practices in the delivery of information technology services.
• Ensure that appropriate Service-Level Agreements (SLAs) and underpinning contracts have been defined that clearly set out for the customer a description of the service and the measures for monitoring the service. Work with other service managers and product owners to balance and prioritize services to meet overall customer requirements, constraints, and objectives. Supervise, manage, and participate in the acquisition process as necessary. Supervises COR activities generally appropriate for contract vehicles of moderate to high complexity to include both supply and service contracts.

We are currently working with a global financial institution and are looking for a Senior Technical Project Manager. We are seeking a Senior Technical Project Manager to develop and manage comprehensive project plans. This role involves aligning cross-team engagements to ensure clarity and focus through effective communication.
Key Responsibilities:

• Develop detailed technical roadmaps to guide product plans and ensure clear understanding amongst development teams.
• Collaborate with the Product Owner, Business Analysts, and wider Team to plan and prioritise the feature backlog, ensuring alignment with product strategy.
• Organise and manage steering committees with stakeholders.
• Create and maintain planning dashboards to provide a comprehensive view of the execution strategy.
• Facilitate daily stand-ups, sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives. Manage engineering development projects and oversee releases.
• Work with team leads to resolve personnel issues and project roadblocks.
• Ensure Project Management deliverables are met according to the organisation's Project Delivery Framework.
• Oversee the successful delivery of complete projects in accordance with established standards.
• Identify and address roadblocks, proactively managing risks and dependencies.

Knowledge, Experience & Skills:

• Proven track record of working as a Project Manager
• Demonstrate expertise of agile methodology and frameworks like Scrum, Kanban
• Deep understanding of agile metrics to analyse and improve sprint planning
• Experience in Jira across multiple projects with interlinked dependencies
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, along with excellent interpersonal abilities.
• Understanding of DevOps will be an added advantage.

If you are a proactive professional with a keen eye for detail and a passion for financial markets, we encourage you to apply to be a part of the team. This role will be hybrid with 3 days working from the office in Belfast. Although the role is initially for a 12-month period there is a high possibility of extension.
If you're interested in this role, please forward an up-to-date copy of your CV or call me on 02890446905. If this job isn't quite right for you, but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion about your career.

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• As a primary action officer, develops, implements, and provides direction within and across the SAF/IE portfolio regarding the policies, processes, and methods supporting legislative Communications and Congressional Engagement (LCCE) requirements.
• Organizes, reviews, and analyzes hearing proceedings, committee reports, transcripts, bills, amendments, report language, floor action, and appropriation acts, and provides senior Department of the Air Force leaders with summaries of SAF/IE (Energy, Installations, and Environment) related impacts.
• Represents organization at high-level at meetings, briefings within Air and Space Staff, Secretariat, DoD, and other agencies pertaining to assigned programs and/or projects
• As a primary action officer, provides support, leadership and project management ensuring the organization presents a coordinated and effective communication of SAF/IE programs as part of the annual roll-out of the President's Budget to Congress.

As a Business Operations Coordinator, GS-0301-14 MP, you will perform the following duties:

Strategic Planning and Policy

• Reviews agency directives, action memoranda, and other relevant documentation to remain current on proposed and pending actions which may affect assigned responsibilities and impact the organization's operations policies, principles, and procedures.
• Makes recommendations to the CBO and senior leadership that outline operational changes necessary to adhere to systems, principles, and procedures; ensure proper financial action and assignment of directorate/office responsibilities; address impact of regulations or new procedures and actions required to implement them; and project cost estimates for implementing operational strategies.

• Works with the business operations managers (BOMs) and Chief Business Operations (CBO) to coordinate performance management activities for the directorate/office.
• Reviews and monitors the status of performance plans and appraisals for the directorate/office to ensure timeliness of actions and compliance with the NSF general workforce, Intergovernmental Personnel Act (IPA), and Senior Executive Service (SES) schedules and associated activities. This includes providing assistance and guidance to directorate or office staff on policies, procedures, and guidelines involved in the appraisal process.

• Serves as a subject matter expert on the federal travel process and associated NSF policies and procedures.
• Serves as the organizational expert on human capital and financial tools and systems, ensuring staff receive appropriate access, as needed, and supporting training needs.
• Performs ad hoc and formal analyses of directorate/office administrative systems and business practices (e.g., travel, use of AOAM funds, IPA investments).
• Applies knowledge of qualitative and quantitative methods to identify inefficient or ineffective practices and establishes new practices for organization-wide use.
• Establishes working groups to study issues and initiatives, propose solutions, plan implementation, and assess feedback, as needed.

• Implements, analyzes, and monitors the progress of the organization's financial operating plan.
• Informs the CBO, Chief Budget Strategist (or equivalent), and senior managers of potential problems with the organization's commitment of funds.
• Participates in meetings to justify and/or defend the organization's operations and/or financial execution processes or strategies.
• Assists in preparing papers, talking points, and graphical presentations to support meetings with senior organizational leadership.

• Presents compelling rationale to individuals and groups at all levels of the organization.
• Follows up with individuals to understand causes of resistance to changes in administrative, operational, programmatic, and human capital processes and procedures within the directorate/office.
• Coordinates with the CBO, AD/OH, and Deputy Assistant Director (DAD)/Deputy Office Head (DOH) to support organization wide employee engagement activities.

Selected candidates may be required to perform limited supervisory duties of a few staff members.

Performs other duties as assigned.

Your new company
You will work for a not-for-profit organisation that provides support to small local businesses. This agency offers a varied range of services and consultancy and plays an active part in business development at local, regional and national levels.

Your new role
As Business Advisor you will work closely with small businesses, or those at the start-up stage, providing them with support and guidance around entrepreneurship. You will assist with Business Planning, helping up-and-coming entrepreneurs understand their market, competition and with particular emphasis on personal and business finances. Offering tailored support to entrepreneurs at all stages of their business journey, you will play a vital role in the development of the business idea / plan, forecasting, cashflow, budgeting and funding opportunities, helping them to achieve their business goals.

What you'll need to succeed
A business or finance related degree or equivalent
A good understanding of budgeting, cashfllow and forecasting for business
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
Confident and engaging with experience in a client-facing role
This job could suit a recent business / finance graduate OR a part-qualified accountant who is looking to utilise their skillset helping local businesses
Excellent IT skills


What you'll get in return
You will work for an organisation that supports local businesses, start-ups and entrepreneurs, helping them to achieve their business goals and potential. This role is initially temporary, leading to a permanent position in April 2025. You will work on a full-time basis, and hybrid work is available. Full training for this role will be provided and there is great potential for progression.

What you need to do now
If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now.
If this job isn't quite right for you, but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion about your career.

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This is a Defense Intelligence Senior Level (DISL) position that functions as the Senior Advisor, Strategy Coordination Program Office (SCPO) within the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security (OUSD(I&S)).

Major duties and responsibilities will include, but are not limited to the following:

• Serves as a recognized expert providing technical expertise, analysis, advance solutions, and recommendations to Collection and Special Programs leadership on future initiatives and capabilities against strategic competitors in the areas of national defense, national security, intelligence, counterintelligence, and other interagency intelligence-related matters and activities.
• Works collaboratively with the Intelligence Community and US Government Interagency partners to facilitate the rapid and effective use of intelligence to identify and mitigate threats to US interests.
• Leads the DoD efforts to provide intelligence and counterintelligence assessment, analysis, evaluation, interpretation, dissemination of information, advance solutions, and recommendations to OUSD(I&S) leadership and interagency partners.
• Oversees the Program Office in identifying, assessing, and neutralizing foreign intelligence activities and capabilities mitigating threats, as well as developing new concepts, methodologies, and risk mitigation strategies to address and better respond to these issues.
• Participates in technology innovation, research, and development to create new or to enhance existing capabilities to improve detection of threats.
• Provides expert advice on SCPO capabilities, intentions, and activities to inform and influence National Security policy, DoD policy, OUSD(I&S) policy, and Congressional legislation.

• Involved in planning, organizing, and executing a wide range of complex activities to assess the wing/center Commander's Inspection Program (CCIP), and the Exercise and Evaluation Program.
• Performs thorough analysis of unit capabilities versus inspection requirements to determine the most efficient exercise, inspection, and visit schedules which minimize costs and maximize unit readiness.
• Facilitates logistical and administrative support needed for the execution of MAJCOM IG Team travel.
• Implements and administers the Personnel Security Program for the Directorate.

• You will provide advice, counsel and executive assistance on matters such as continuing responsibility for development, implementation and review of strategy, policies, plans, and programs of critical interest.
• You will be responsible for general defense and foreign policy development, and for all policy coordination at the executive level with the Offices of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy (OUSD(P)).
• You will be responsible for assessing Navy and Marine Corps programs, technology development and warfighting concepts and analyzing the implications for development of future naval capabilities.
• You will assess service programmatic solutions and their relationship to Departmental and Secretarial guidance within the DON Program Objective Memorandum (POM)/Budget process.
• You will advise subordinates on all administrative matters, including personnel policies and regulations.
• You will speak for and represent the DUSN (P) in interactions with private industry, think tanks, non-profit organizations and foreign partners and allies to promote DON interests in the areas of defense policy, capabilities and readiness.

• Serves as a Supervisory Program Manager / Deputy Associate Director (Business & Operations) of Research and Technical Integration (RTI) Directorate's Business and Operations and assists the Associate Director (Business & Operations) with the planning, directing.
• Managing of all aspects of the Research and Technology Integration Directorate's Business and Operations and implementing and executing processes involving resource management support, acquisition and contract support, internal/external collaboration support, information technology and networking support, facilities and equipment management support, and access control and protection support.
• Work includes creating and streamlining operational procedures and processes to reduce workload and gain efficiencies.
• Individual manages funding to ensure sufficient coverage of fiscal year operating costs.
• Serves as a leader in the promotion of customer-driven capabilities to RTI technical divisions. Assigns work to RTI Business and Operations branches providing exceptional support to all customers.
• Develops and implements business strategies to meet the Directorate's current and future requirements.
• Provides operational support for the Directorate's organizational recruiting, hiring and training of new employees.

• You will develop and conduct technical reviews of facilities planning products (i.e., Basic Facilities Requirements [BFRs], Facilities Plans) to determine if objectives are met.
• You will develop, coordinate, and review facility planning and requirement documents; FPD, PRC, FPC, PBFR, SSER, FMP for new Weapons Systems Introduction.
• You will lead other planners in providing facilities planning and engineering services to clients.
• You will oversee multi-disciplinary teams on project management directives for successful project execution within planning and design standards.
• You will advise on solutions to problems encountered during the planning and design phases of project development.
• You will develop alternative solutions to planning design and engineering issues.