Operations Director

Leidos; Bristol; On-site; GBP 96,000 - 152,000; Full time

Job summary

Leidos is seeking an Operations Director responsible for operational elements in support of UK Defence, ensuring logistics readiness and supply chain resilience. The successful candidate will lead collaborative efforts, maintain excellent customer relationships, and drive performance across KPIs in a dynamic working environment.

Benefits

Contributory Pension Scheme

Private Medical Insurance

33 days Annual Leave

Access to Flexible benefits

Dynamic Working

Qualifications

• Strong Operations management experience required.
• Experience working in an air worthiness environment is desirable.
• Senior logistic officer experience in, or with, UK Armed Forces is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Deliver supply chain integration and drive collaborative working.
• Maintain and test LCST readiness for logistic support.
• Lead the Joint Operations Framework to prioritize joint operational momentum.

Skills

Operations management

Job description

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Description

Operations Director

Location: Emersons Green, Bristol

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Role Overview

The Operations Director is primarily responsible for ensuring that Team Leidos delivers the operational elements of LCST in support of UK Defence BACO and emerging operational requirements, including a Strategic Base Outload.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Deliver supply chain integration through strong relationships with Director CSS and Director Logistics
• Drive collaborative working through an Operations Working Group and a Cognitive Command Centre
• Provide an interface between military operational HQs and Team Leidos to ensure a mutual understanding of requirements, capabilities and challenges
• Ensure that Team Leidos understands emerging operational requirements and is prepared to meet them
• Maintain and test LCST readiness to deliver logistic support to emerging Operations, including a Strategic Base Outload
• Build a comprehensive understanding of LCST supply chain resilience, integrating with DE&S SCRIPT, model potential resilience challenges and mitigate the impact of worldwide resilience events
• Provide a deployable team capable of working within a Total Support Force construct on deployed operations
• Lead the Joint Operations Framework, with CMO Head of Operations and supported by the Joint Operations Management Office, to prioritise and maintain pan-LCST joint operational momentum
• Drive, monitor and measure LCST performance to ensure that Team Leidos remains ‘green’ against all KPIs
• Provide MI/BI to inform SLT decision making
• Maintain excellent customer relationships through delivery of customer needs and dedicated customer relationship management focused primarily on Front Line Commands and DE&S Delivery Teams
• Provide a 24/7/365 Customer Service Desk focused on successfully resolving customer queries and issues
• Deliver a continuous customer satisfaction survey and drive improvements in CSAT scores
• Provide an operational demand input capability, maintaining contingent stock levels, and managing demands of Defence forms & publications
• Generate On Contract Growth opportunities and relay to the BD team.
• Recruit, retain, and develop a high performing team
  
  

Skills Required

• Strong Operations management experience
  
  

Desirable Skills

• Experience working in an air worthiness environment
• Senior logistic officer experience in, or with, UK Armed Forces
  
  

Clearance Requirements

• BPSS Pre-screening required to Start
• SC required for the role
  
  

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What We Do For You

At Leidos we are PASSIONATE about customer success, UNITED as a team and INSPIRED to make a difference. We offer meaningful and engaging careers, a collaborative culture, and support for your career goals, all while nurturing a healthy work-life balance.

We provide an employment package that attracts, develops and retains only the best in talent. Our reward scheme includes:

• Contributory Pension Scheme
• Private Medical Insurance
• 33 days Annual Leave (including public and privilege holidays)
• Access to Flexible benefits (including life assurance, health schemes, gym memberships, annual buy and sell holidays and a cycle to work scheme)
• Dynamic Working
  
  

Commitment To Diversity

We welcome applications from every part of the community and are committed to a truly diverse and inclusive culture. We foster a sense of belonging, welcoming all perspectives and contributions, and providing equal access to opportunities and resources for everyone. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages please let us know, and we will respond in a way that best fits your needs.

Who We Are

The Logistics Commodities & Services Transformation (LCST) Programme for the UK Ministry of Defence is a critical effort to enhance and improve the UK’s defence supply chain. The programme provides essential services such as storage and distribution for the MOD's materiel, including a global freight service and the procurement and inventory management of 70,000 commodity NATO Stock Number (NSNs).

Working together as Team Leidos we are helping to transform the UK's defence supply chain by providing an integration of a complex mixture of services, at low risk, using a modern suite of systems that will deliver one version of the truth. For the first time, the MOD will see the whole picture, as it is happening.

What Makes Us Different

Purpose: you can use your passion and abilities at Leidos to keep the people you care about safe. We are at the forefront of machine learning, AI, cyber security and solutions. Using your skills in the technology frontline by helping to build a safer world. You can inspire change.

Collaboration: having flexibility to do your job is one of our core benefits, enabling you to become part of our extraordinary team. We have been empowering our people to work flexibly for years. Whether you work from home, the office or on customer sites, we will give you the digital tools and the flexibility to work smarter and align your needs and ours.

People: Leidos empowers people from every background to be themselves and gives you the tools to learn new skills by enabling growth whilst developing. We believe that extraordinary people need opportunities to grow, to be inspired and to inspire others. At Leidos, we invest in technical academies, career rotations and a career development plans that enhance your future.

Original Posting

For U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

Pay Range

Pay Range £96,800.00 - £151,633.75

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Director

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Management and Manufacturing

• Industries

  Government Administration and IT Services and IT Consulting

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