You will work for a government organization committed to the safety of the country. Within this organization, a specialized department supports colleagues domestically and internationally with equipment, supplies, and IT. You will operate within the Operations Bureau of the staff department of the Directorate of Weapon Systems & Businesses, where operational signals, chain information, and management needs converge.
The work environment is dynamic, with high time pressure and the need to independently set priorities and actively gather information.
What you do
- Translate operational signals into concretely substantiated insights regarding risks, feasibility, and capacity impact.
- Gather, interpret, and translate operational information into concrete, substantiated insights about risks, feasibility, and capacity impact.
- Analyze the impact of operational developments on deployability, equipment, and logistical chains.
- Explicitly identify dependencies and bottlenecks.
- Actively gather feasibility information from Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) within the chain.
- Advise the Directorate based on your analyses and ensure that relevant risks, bottlenecks, and dependencies are timely and substantiated in the decision-making process.
- Act as a connecting link between operations, the chain, business operations, and the Directorate.
- Deliver products such as interpretation notes, risk analyses, chain overviews, and input for situation reports and decision-making.
- Provide the substantive basis upon which decisions are made, without making decisions yourself.
What they ask
- HBO+/WO (higher professional education/university) work and thinking level.
- Extensive experience within an operational, logistical, or defense context.
- Ability to quickly process, interpret, and translate large amounts of information into concrete advice.
- Understanding of how operational processes and logistical chains interact.
- Familiarity with military command and the ability to quickly extract the core from commands and orders.
- Proactive work attitude: independently gather information.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to switch between different levels.
- Remain effective under time pressure.
- Understanding that your role is to provide analysis and advice, not to make decisions.
Profile
- Analytical ability: seeing connections where others see isolated facts.
- Chain awareness: understanding dependencies and impact across multiple links.
- Proactivity: not waiting for information, but actively retrieving it.
- Organizational and political sensitivity: knowing how decision-making truly works.
- Stress resistance: staying sharp under time pressure and during escalations.
- Collaboration and connection: effectively navigating between different interests.
Practical
- A security screening and reference check are part of the selection procedure.
- An assessment may be part of the selection procedure.
- You must originate from a country within the European Economic Area, or possess a combined permit for residence and work (GVVA).
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