Business Operations Advisor

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 work streams 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 () 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…