Senior Logistics Coordinator

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Description
Senior Logistics Coordinator Programme Name: LCST
Location: Bristol, UK

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Role Overview:
As a Senior Logistics Coordinator, you will be the pivotal point of contact for the logistics team, ensuring seamless coordination across the supply chain.

You will work closely with stakeholders to facilitate smooth operations, provide critical briefs on team activities, and leverage data analysis to optimize performance and support customer decisions.

Your role will also involve planning, coordinating, and supervising key stakeholder engagement meetings, leading initiatives to enhance logistical processes, and identifying potential risks to develop robust mitigation strategies.

Key Responsibilities:
Stakeholder Coordination:

• Act as the primary liaison between the logistics team and various stakeholders
• Ensure smooth communication and coordination across the supply chain

Communication and Briefing:

• Provide regular updates and briefs on team activities to stakeholders
• Maintain clear and effective communication channels

Data Analysis and Decision Making:

• Utilise data analysis to make informed decisions and optimise supply chain performance
• Track trends and provide insights to inform customer decisions

Stakeholder Engagement:

• Plan, coordinate, and supervise key stakeholder engagement meetings
• Foster strong relationships with stakeholders to ensure alignment and collaboration

Process Improvement:

• Lead initiatives to continuously improve supply chain processes
• Incorporate the latest industry practices and technologies to enhance efficiency

Risk Management:

• Identify potential risks within the supply chain
• Develop and implement strategies to mitigate risks and ensure resilience

Other Expectations:
Project and Process Management:

• Work independently to achieve day-to-day objectives with significant impact on operational results or project deliverables
• Be responsible for entire projects or processes within a professional area.
• Coach and review the work of lower-level professionals

Complexity:

• Address problems that are unclear and may require understanding of a broader set of issues
• Develop solutions to problems and issues that require thorough analyses and understanding of domain knowledge

Communication:

• Communicate with internal and client project team members
• Influence team members regarding solution design, process, and/or approaches

Leadership and Talent Management:

• Demonstrate full understanding of concepts, principles, and industry practices within the logistics discipline
• Exhibit deep understanding of industry practices and standards

Education and Experience:

• Experience of working within a MOD environment and a complex matrix management structure

Skills:

• Strong project management and organizational skills
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Proficiency in data analysis and decision-making
• Ability to lead and influence teams
• Experience in process improvement and risk management

Clearance Requirements:

• Clearance to Start BPSS
• Clearance for Role SC

Leidos UK! Join our team and discover a culture of collaboration, innovation, diversity, trust, caring management, communication transparency, work-life balance, and overall job satisfaction...

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 Date: 2024-11-05While 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:
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.
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About Leidos Leidos is a Fortune 500® innovation company rapidly addressing the world's most vexing challenges in national security and health. The company's global workforce of 47,000 collaborates to create smarter technology solutions for customers in heavily regulated industries. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $15.4 billion for the fiscal year ended December 29, 2023. For more information, visit www.Leidos.com .
Pay and Benefits 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 here .
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Commitment to Diversity All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, ethnicity, age, national origin, citizenship, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, pregnancy, family structure, marital status, ancestry, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, or any other basis prohibited by law. Leidos will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with relevant laws.