De&s Senior Supply Chain Administrator

**Reference number**:
182573

**Salary**:
£21,250

**Grade**:
Other

Senior Administrator/Specialist

**Contract type**:
Permanent

**Business area**:
MOD - Defence Equipment & Support - iLog

**Type of role**:
Logistics
Operational Delivery

**Working pattern**:
Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time

**Number of posts**:
1

Location

DM Beith, Beith, Ayrshire, Scotland, KA15 1JT

About the job

**Summary**:
**Job description**:
Are you passionate about the defence of the United Kingdom? Do you want to work in an environment where you can develop your skills and experience whilst working to support the UK’s Armed Forces? If so, opportunities have arisen for an Inventory and Business Manager to join us at DE&S in Defence Munitions.

Our Defence Munitions staff work closely with our Delivery Teams and front-line commands to ensure our troops have the right equipment at the right time. We work as an important element of the wider MoD, supporting and supplying our troops with a wide range of munitions.

We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated manager, who likes a challenge, to develop skills in a role primarily engaged in materiel accounting management, stocktaking and workforce planning in our iLog (Integrated Logistics) function.

Helping to achieve business objectives and continue improving our performance, you will be a confident and forward-thinking individual, with strong analytical, communication, organisational and coaching skills with a high attention to detail.

This is a varied post within a demanding environment, allowing you the opportunity to collaborate with customers and engage in activities to ensure the accuracy of inventory systems, to enable demands to be met.

**Responsibilities**:
Responsibilities of the post include:

- Liaising with stakeholders, you will be accountable for the management and accuracy of materiel accounting transactions
- Managing the Stocktaking Plan and conducting investigations on discrepancies, to reconcile and adjust the account
- Analysing performance against stocktaking key performance indicators and suggesting routes for improvement
- Identifying continuous improvement initiatives to deliver efficiencies
- Delivering a high-quality service, collaborating with others to deliver positive outcomes
- Creating/maintaining spreadsheets to enable stocktake planning, training schedules and financial registers
- Co-ordination of workforce planning data and recruitment
- Maintaining and analysing financial data
- Maintaining the Training Database
- Administering procurement activity and travel booking
- Managing a small team of three individuals

**What you will be assessed against**
- Experience of working in a stocktake management environment
- Experience in the development of policies and processes
- Demonstrable customer focus and stakeholder engagement skills at all levels, internal and external
- Ability to analyse financial and numerical data, with a good logical approach to problem solving
- Ability to make decisions, often in the face of multiple competing priorities
- Proficient in the use of Microsoft Office, especially Excel
- Some experience of people management

In addition to the responsibilities above, the following technical competencies and behaviours will be assessed at interview:

- Making evidence-based decisions (Practitioner)
- Enhancing Service Support Systems (Practitioner)
- Communicating and influencing
- Delivering at pace

**What's in it for you?**

You will receive a generous benefits package including market-leading employer pension contributions of between 26.6% and 30.3% of your salary (not including any personal contribution), annual bonuses, a flexible working pattern to fit you where possible, 25 days holiday +1 additional day every year you work up to 30 days with opportunity for movement and promotion. Some of our sites include an onsite gym, onsite restaurants, cafes and much more.

Whilst you will be based out of the listed location, DE&S promotes Smarter working, which provides flexibility over where work is carried out whilst ensuring organisational outcomes are delivered effectively and efficiently. We adopt an ‘attend for a purpose’ approach in relation to visits to site.

Find out more about what DE&S offers by clicking **here**. Please refer to the **Civil Service Pensions Retirement Modeller** to get an indication of the benefits you may receive from your Civil Service Pension, when you come to retire.

**About your team**

The Integrated Logistics (iLog) Function is the integrating Function for Support within DE&S, responsible for the development, management and delivery of in-service support for our front-line command customers. The iLog Function consists of around 2,900 personnel, both civil servants and military, and with a wide range of disciplines ranging from operations management and supply chain management, technical through-life support and logistics delivery, to modelling and analysis.

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