Senior Manager, Aerospace Defense & Government Advisory

Join Aprio's Aerospace, Defense, and Government Advisory team and you will help clients maximize their opportunities. Aprio is a progressive, fast-growing firm looking for a Senior Manager to join their dynamic team.

Position Responsibilities:

• Support client engagements from proposal writing, through planning and delivery
• Lead high-impact strategy and M&A projects focused on evaluating growth and investment opportunities across the U.S. government and commercial aerospace sectors.
• Support data collection, research and analysis of:
• Macro economic, policy, financial, industry and technology trends
• Market dynamics, size and growth trends
• Company financials
• Customer requirements, positioning and trends
• Technology, product and service portfolios
• Competitive dynamics
• Lead evaluations of organic and inorganic growth opportunities in the U.S. government and aerospace markets
• Provide synthesis and insights from team workstreams, developed into coherent client-ready messaging and delivery
• Manage project economics, lead team, coordinate with client, and manage logistics
• Support business development through development of research and first-draft proposals for new client work
• Make process and quality improvement recommendations
• Leverage AI tools to accelerate workstream execution and extend insights into client opportunities, with ability to fact check
• and provide AI quality assurance

  Build clean Excel models and worksheets and help with financial and market models under guidance

• Review junior level staff work for quality and consistency
• Edit and revise team slides and support of presentations for senior industry leaders and investment professionals

Qualifications:

• 6+ years of total experience working in relevant fields, with at least 2+ years working for a management consulting firm, investment bank or in a corporate strategy, M&A or business development/ capture role in the defense, aerospace and national security sectors
• Masters degree; MBA preferred
• Demonstrated ability to build market models and conduct financial projections in Excel
• Demonstrated interest in aerospace, defense, and U.S. government markets (familiarity with budgets or commercial aerospace trends is a plus)
• Experience in and ability to leverage and further develop AI tools preferred
• Ability to analyze and forecast U.S. government budgets and/or commercial aerospace spending
• Ability to develop clear, concise and persuasive PowerPoint briefs used for strategic decision-making
• Excellent presentation skills and client-facing disposition
• Experience managing projects and leading teams in the execution of short-turnaround deliverables
• Experience developing team members preferred
• Strong communication skills and executive presence to brief client-ready material direct to clients and ability to iterate on client commentary and feedback