Business Operations Advisor

Leidos, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Contributory Pension

Private Medical Insurance

33 days annual leave

Flexible benefits

Flexi-Time Working

Job summary

Leidos, Inc. is seeking a senior Operations Advisor within the LCST programme to provide expert guidance on Defence Supply Chain and LCST systems. The role requires influencing senior stakeholders, driving improvements, and delivering service excellence with autonomous leadership.

You will lead cross-functional reviews, manage strategic initiatives, and ensure operational risks are identified and mitigated, supporting growth opportunities and enterprise goals.

Qualifications

• Senior member of Operations Directorate advisory team.
• Proven ability to influence stakeholders across multiple levels.

Responsibilities

• Represent the Operations Director at senior leadership meetings and coordinate tasks.
• Investigate complex LCST and Defence Supply Chain issues and identify root causes.
• Lead deep-dive reviews and priority workstreams across LCST and Defence Supply Chain.
• Project manage responses to strategic initiatives from scoping to handover to delivery teams.
• Review statements of requirement and change proposals for operational impact.

Skills

Leadership

Stakeholder engagement

Strategic thinking

Problem solving

Communication

Education

Degree in business/logistics/operations

Job description

The Team Leidos (TL) Business Operations Advisor is a senior member of the Operations Directorate within the Logistics Commodities and Services Transformation (LCST) programme. The role provides expert advice on Defence Supply Chain and LCST systems and processes, identifies inefficiencies, drives improvements and supports the delivery of service excellence. Success requires the ability to engage and influence stakeholders at all levels, guiding them through complex business operations challenges to achieve effective outcomes. The role is ideally suited to a self-motivated and driven individual who thrives when given the autonomy to tackle challenges with minimal direction. What will I be doing?

• Represent the Operations Director at senior leadership meetings and coordinate Directorate tasking, reporting and follow-up during absences to ensure continuity and timely delivery.
• Investigate complex LCST and Defence Supply Chain integration issues, identifying root causes, gaps and practical solutions.
• Lead deep-dive reviews and priority workstreams across LCST and, where required, the wider Defence Supply Chain.
• Project manage Team Leidos responses to strategic initiatives and customer requirements through initial scoping and mobilisation to handover to business‑as‑usual delivery teams.
• Review Statements of Requirement and change proposals, providing subject‑matter expertise and constructive challenge to ensure operational impacts, dependencies and delivery requirements are fully considered.
• Contribute to logistics delivery and governance meetings, engaging, influencing and driving Team Leidos and customer stakeholders to achieve operational targets and agreed outcomes.
• Evaluate processes, identify best practice and challenge activities or behaviours that adversely affect LCST performance, service delivery or reputation.
• Lead the design and delivery of Directorate strategy and leadership events, translating strategic intent into clear priorities and aligned actions.
• Coordinate Directorate operational risk management, ensuring risks are identified, assessed, recorded, managed and escalated appropriately.
• Support the identification, development and delivery of new business opportunities and selected growth projects, ensuring proposals are operationally credible and aligned with Directorate and wider business priorities.
• Manage delivery of the Operations Directorate Cognitive Command Centre capability to Full Operational Capability, maximising its value for stakeholder engagement and support during periods of surge activity.
• Proven experience in a leadership role encompassing:
• Supply chain, logistics and/or operations
• Stakeholder engagement and Customer Relationship Management
• Strong written and verbal communications skills with a proven ability to influence
• Solving complex problems across multiple stakeholder organisations

Possess a UK driving license and prepared to travel within the UK.

Desirable competencies include:

• Professional qualification in business administration, logistics, or operations at Degree level, or equivalent in experience
• Demonstrable understanding of UK Defence supply chain and LCST systems and processes
• Established relationships within the UK Defence logistics community

The Logistics Commodities & Services Transformation (LCST) Programme (https://www.leidos.com/company/global/uk-europe/LCST%20%28) 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. If you're looking for comfort, keep scrolling. At Leidos, we outthink, outbuild, and outpace the status quo - because the mission demands it. We're not hiring followers. We're recruiting the ones who disrupt, provoke, and refuse to fail. Step 10 is ancient history. We're already at step 30 - and moving faster than anyone else dares.

Leidos is an industry and technology leader serving government and commercial customers with smarter, more efficient digital and mission innovations.

Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, with 47,000 global employees, Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $16.7 billion for the fiscal year ended January 3, 2025.

For more information, visit www.Leidos.com.

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)
• Flexi-Time Working, Pay and benefits are fundamental to any career decision. That's why we craft compensation packages that reflect the importance of the work we do for our customers. Employment benefits include competitive compensation, Health and Wellness programs, Income Protection, Paid Leave and Retirement. More details are available at www.leidos.com/careers/pay-benefits.