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Senior Business Operations Specialist

Spirit AeroSystems

Wichita, KSJob$104–160K/yrSeen 1 day agoSeen in employer's feed 1 day ago

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Compensation
$104–160K/yr
Location
Wichita, KS
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

The Senior Business Operations Specialist supports Spirit Commercial by coordinating and developing site executive briefing packages and analyzing operational and financial metrics. The role provides trend analysis and reporting to inform business decisions, and helps design and continuously improve reporting and analytics processes. It works with operations, finance, human resources, quality, and other business functions to develop integrated reporting, analytics, business cases, and milestones.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Business AcumenAnalyticsMicrosoft PowerPointMicrosoft ExcelWritten CommunicationOral CommunicationExecutive PresentationsStrategic MetricsData VisualizationFinance AnalyticsReport DevelopmentVariance AnalysisMetrics ValidationCritical ThinkingCreative Thinking

Qualifications

10+ Years Related ExperienceBachelor's in Related Field or 5+ Years Business Operations ExperienceDetail OrientedSelf-Starter

Benefits

Medical Insurance
401(k) Match
Paid Time Off

Full job description

Overview

This role is at Spirit AeroSystems, Inc. a wholly owned subsidiary of The Boeing Company, supporting Spirit’s Commercial Business Units (“Spirit Commercial”). Spirit Commercial designs and builds commercial aerostructures, including for Boeing Commercial Airplanes, one of Boeing’s three business units and the premier manufacturer of commercial jetliners for decades. Spirit Commercial’s core products include fuselages, pylons, nacelles and wing components, with a focus on innovative composite and aluminum manufacturing solutions.

Responsibilities

Position Responsibilities:

  • Coordination, integration, analysis, development, and packaging of the site executive briefing package to include but not limited to:

  • Coordinates preliminary meetings (dry runs), integrate functional inputs (finance, supply chain management, operations, etc.), develop data charts and reports, develop and polish executive level briefing package, and conduct final reviews with executive leadership team.

  • Compiles and analyzes operational and finance metrics and other data to help support Senior Leadership's needs for making data informed decisions.

  • This will require the usage of varying techniques including data aggregation, data mining and reporting.

  • Reporting will include providing trend analysis to manage, interpret data and give accurate information to influence multi-function teams to make informed business decisions throughout the organization and company levels.

  • This individual will have a key role in designing and continuously improving reporting and analytics processes.

  • Works in a team environment, is customer focused and can consult with multiple functions (operations, finance, human resources, quality and other business managers) to develop fully integrated reporting, analytics, business cases and milestones.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications (Required Skills and Experience):

  • 10+ years’ related experience

  • Bachelor's degree in a related field or 5+ years of experience in business operations, planning, analytics, or program support

  • Business Perspective / Business Acumen / Analytics

  • Strong MS PowerPoint and Excel Skills (VLOOKUP, HLOOKUP, pivot tables, advanced formulas, charting, etc.)

  • Detail oriented and a self-starter with strong written and oral communication skills, including delivering executive level presentations.

Preferred Qualifications (Desired Skills/Experience):

  • Strategic metrics and program view – can see enterprise view

  • Support story telling – Visualization for executive program reviews

  • Finance analytics and metrics; ability to make the complex, simple

  • Ability to design and develop reports and analytics within current suite of products.

  • Ability to perform in depth analysis including items like variance explanations and metrics validation.

  • Excel analysis encompassing pivot tables, Vlookups and Hlookups

  • Advanced PowerPoint skills with critical and creative thinking in chart development.

Drug Free Workplace:

We are a Drug Free Workplace where post offer applicants and employees are subject to testing for marijuana, cocaine, opioids, amphetamines, PCP, and alcohol when criteria are met as outlined in our policies.

Pay & Benefits:

We strive to deliver a Total Rewards package that will attract, engage and retain the top talent. Elements of the Total Rewards package include competitive base pay and variable compensation opportunities.

We also provide eligible employees with an opportunity to enroll in a variety of benefit programs, generally including health insurance, flexible spending accounts, health savings accounts, retirement savings plans, life and disability insurance programs, and a number of programs that provide for both paid and unpaid time away from work.

The specific programs and options available to any given employee may vary depending on eligibility factors such as geographic location, date of hire, and the applicability of collective bargaining agreements.

Pay is based upon candidate experience and qualifications, as well as market and business considerations.

Summary Pay Range: $104,250 - $159,850

Kansas Tax Credit: Join Spirit AeroSystems’ Kansas team and you may be eligible for a $5,000 state of Kansas Aviation tax credit for up to five years. Click here for more information on the tax credit.

How this job compares

Set against the 2,183 open Business Operations jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 4, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$104–160K/yr
  • US median$132–194K/yr1,471 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $132K, is 20% below the US median midpoint ($165K) — in the middle half of Business Operations salary ranges across the US.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 19 open Business Operations jobs in Kansas and 2,183 across the US. 10% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most across the US
Experience
This posting asks for at least 10 years of experience — more than three in four Business Operations postings that state a minimum ask for (median 6 years, across 1,815 postings).
Education
523 of the 2,183 open Business Operations jobs (24%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 4, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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