UK Defence Inventory Management Specialist - 17897

Technical Staffing Resources; Leatherhead; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading staffing agency is seeking a UK Defence Inventory Management Specialist for a 6-month contract in Leatherhead, offering competitive hourly pay. The role involves optimizing inventory management systems for UK Defence, requiring experience in inventory solutions and strong collaboration skills with stakeholders. Candidates must have the right to work in the UK and will occasionally visit client sites.

Benefits

Competitive hourly pay rate

Outside IR35 engagement

Qualifications

• Experience with inventory management solutions across UK Defence is essential.
• Proven stakeholder management and collaboration skills required.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills needed.

Responsibilities

• Apply architecture methodology to define and optimize inventory management.
• Document functional and non-functional requirements for change initiatives.
• Support business analysts in modelling inventory management processes.

Skills

Experience with UK Defence inventory management solutions

Stakeholder management

Analytical skills

Excellent communication skills

Job description

Technical Staffing Resources (TSR) are the in‑house agency and master vendor for KBR who are a leading global engineering, construction, and services company.

KBR support the hydrocarbon and government services markets on six continents. Serving their customers through diverse business units, KBR offer challenging assignments on some of the world's largest and most complex projects.

We are looking to recruit a UK Defence Inventory Management Specialist for a 6‑month contract, nationally based with occasional visits to client sites.

On Offer

• Competitive hourly pay rate
• Outside IR35 work engagement

Remote working

NB. We can only consider candidates with the right to live and work in the UK, as the successful candidate will need to obtain security clearance - BPSS / SC.

Project Background

FDSS is the successor contract to Logistics Commodities & Services (Transformation) LCS(T), currently, with additional scope added from adjacent contracts including :

• British Forces Post Office (BFPO)
• Defence Rail
• Defence Equipment Sales Authority (DESA)
• Future Maritime Support Programme (FMSP)
• DECA (formerly Defence Electronics and Components Agency)

Defence Operational Energy (OEA)

FDSS is being contracted by the National Armament Directorate (NAD), with the scope to include :

• Sourcing and Procurement / Contract Management
• Inventory Management and Planning
• Storage and Stock Management
• Logistics and Distribution

The objective of FDSS is to enhance resilience, agility, and scalability to better support the latest Defence Planning Assumptions in the Defence Support and Supply Chain strategies.

Core Responsibilities

• Apply a structured business architecture approach and methodology for capturing the key views and needs of the enterprise to capture, define, optimise, lean, and subsequently implement, an optimised inventory management solution for FDSS;
• Describe and capture the optimised inventory management functions, capabilities, services, and processes to identify and describe systems and information that interact with the business, and describe which people, data and technology are involved in the processes;
• Collect, understand, and document the functional and non-functional requirements for change initiatives and translate them into business and then technical requirements, ensuring they are well defined and ready for development;
• Identify and communicate to relevant stakeholders the impact of optimised inventory management on their processes, resources, technology, and governance structures;
• Support the business analysts in modelling the as‑is and to‑be optimised inventory management processes in an enterprise architecture toolset;
• Analyse and interpret data and information from several sources to support clients in decision making and unlocking the value in data;
• Support the development of information systems and technology architecture;

Detailed understanding of the varying inventory types and how the management of these varies through the Inventory Management System – e.g., specialist categories like ‘blood’ will have very different needs to ‘fire control equipment’.

Experience

• Experience with the inventory management solutions operated and implemented across the breadth of UK Defence;
• Experience with UK MoD process and systems for Inventory Management;
• The ability to understand inventory management and optimisation change needs and assess the business impact of those changes by driving the identification of requirements across business services;
• The ability to visualise and create models that can be used in future analysis to extend and mature the inventory management and optimisation;
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, with experience of continuous stakeholder collaboration to gather and refine inventory management optimisation requirements as well as keeping the stakeholder at the heart of design and development, implementation, and transition phases of transformation initiatives;
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to communicate appropriately at all levels of the business; this includes written and verbal communications as well as
• Excellent analytical skills with the ability to define and resolve problems methodically and logically.

If the above opportunity describes you, then I would love to speak with you, get in touch 01372 862020 / [e-mail].