Chief Operations Officer - 14 Month FTC

at  Leidos

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

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.

THE ROLE:

The Chief Operations Officer (COO) for the Logistics Commodities and Services Transformation (LCST) programme is the principal Director responsible to the Programme Director to lead the execution of strategies developed by the top management team. You will be responsible for conceptualizing, implementing, managing and optimising all procedural and operational aspects of the LCST Programme with a singular focus of realising the Programme Director’s vision for achieving programme excellence.
You will be responsible for ensuring that essential business building blocks such as operational controls, administrative and reporting procedures, systems are put in to place consistently and effectively to achieve desired results from both contractual and Corporate perspectives. You will seamlessly guide the programme from the final stages of its transition staging to full service delivery so fulfilling the contractual commitments and any approved amendments as laid out since SCD.

ROLE OVERVIEW:

• Responsible for ensuring that the implemented processes and tools support the programme’s contractual goals and objectives. Ensure proper measures whilst also reinforcing the desired culture.
• Act as the Supply Chain Integration (SCI) Director with Line Management responsibilities to Current and Future Military Operation’s Planning Cell, Operations Support (includes Customer Support Desk, Contingent Operational Stocks Planning, Forms & Pubs, and Process & Investigations sections), Management Information, and Programme Support Services (including Security, Quality, Risks, Issues & Opportunities, Configuration Management, and Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery).
• Be a principal member of the LCST programme Senior Leadership Team and, when required, deputise for the Programme Director.