Senior Manager, Strategy & Agenda

The future of aerospace and defense starts here.

Ursa Major was founded to revolutionize how America and its allies access and apply high-performance propulsion, from hypersonics to solid rocket motors, satellite maneuvering and launch. We design and deliver propulsion and defense systems that solve the most urgent and critical national security demands.

We are looking for a Senior Manager, Strategy & Agenda to own the long-range view of Ursa Major’s planning function — the horizon beyond the fiscal year, out to the multi-year thesis. This senior individual contributor / player-coach builds the scenarios, market models, and value cases that turn where the business is going into a plan it can commit to today, on an eighteen-month-plus horizon.

You will own the Regional Strategic Meeting and the multi-year thesis, scenario and market modeling, the Quarterly Business Review, and the strategy behind the planning toolset — sitting across Programs, Business Development, Finance, Engineering, and Operations to make sure the plan we commit to this year is the right plan for where Ursa Major is heading as we scale. This role is the long-term counterpart to the Senior Manager, Integrated Business Process — same level, same rigor, a different horizon.

IBP owns execution inside the fiscal year; this role owns the long-range view that feeds it. Both report to the Director, Planning & SIOP, and this is a senior role inside an integrated planning function, not a standalone strategy office. You will lead a Strategy Analyst as a direct report. This is a hybrid position with 3-days per week working on-site at our Berthoud, Colorado facility.

• Own the Regional Strategic Meeting (RSM) and the multi-year thesis end to end — agenda, inputs, and the direction the plan follows beyond the fiscal year.
• Recommend mid- and long-term priorities and the targets that measure them, building the analysis that decides which competing priorities earn investment.
• Own the Quarterly Business Review (Q ): the quarterly re-basing forum that keeps the annual plan honest against the thesis, without reopening the AOP.
• Own the Week-1 portfolio and product review, where R&D, IRAD, and the pipeline are reviewed against capacity before they enter the plan as committed demand.

• Build and maintain the scenarios that test the plan against different demand, capacity, and investment futures.
• Model the market Ursa Major is planning into — TAM / SAM / SOM, share of wallet, and the demand environment — as quantified planning inputs.
• Own the strategic customer value proposition: the quantified case for a given direction, program mix, or investment, and its link to customer outcomes including NPS.
• Own the external view — competitive landscape, market and customer trends — and translate it into long-range plan and portfolio implications.

• Own the rolling long-range planning horizon from eighteen months outward, and any planning horizon past the current year with no other home.
• Build and maintain the long-range KPI frameworks and dashboards (Power BI or equivalent): out-year forecast accuracy, capacity outlook, and performance against the thesis.
• Sponsor the planning-tool and platform roadmap from the strategy side, partnering with IT/Engineering and the IBP function on ERP and planning-platform evolution.
• Evaluate and bring forward AI/ML-enabled forecasting, scenario, and decision-support tooling that sharpens the long-range signal.

• Keep the strategy, scenarios, and out-year plan feeding the Integrated Business Process cadence rather than running parallel to it.
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