Defence Support

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 277064**Salary**:

- £33,830- This position is advertised at 37 hours per week.**Job grade**:

- Higher Executive Officer- C2**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- MOD - Strategic Command - Defence Support - Defence Supply Chain Operations & Movements**Type of role**:

- Logistics**Working pattern**:

- Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time**Number of jobs available**:

- 1Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
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Location
- Stoke Gifford, South West England, BS34 8JHAbout the job

**Job summary**:
**Do you want to join Defence and play your part in supporting our armed forces to operate effectively?**

Each year a third of the Defence budget is spent on Support. The Defence Support Organisation sits at the heart of providing support to the UK's Armed Forces. This 650-strong organisation works with both civilian and military personnel across Defence and exists to ensure that wherever Defence is operating, it can outpace, outwit and where necessary out-fight its adversaries. We provide logistic and engineering support to UK Armed Forces at home and abroad and have a broad remit spanning from planning to operational delivery. We are also driving a results-orientated transformation agenda to modernise Defence's logistic and engineering support services and contributing towards the Defence strategy to meet the UK Government goal of Net Zero 2050.

We offer an inclusive, encouraging working environment providing opportunities for you to thrive in your role and progress your career. Our core values are Respect, Trust, Understanding and Kindness as we passionately believe these will enable both a diverse workforce and ultimately high performing teams.

We are looking for enthusiastic and motivated individuals who will embrace these values and proactively demonstrate the principles of inclusion within the organisation.

This position is advertised at 37 hours per week.

**Job description**:
Defence Supply Chain Operations and Movements (DSCOM) is a 1* Military Headquarters within the Joint Support 2* area of the Defence Support organisation. DSCOM is a joint organisation comprising a mix of military, civilian and contractor staff based mainly at MOD Abbey Wood, Bristol. DSCOM is a great place to work, where staff feel valued and respected.

DSCOM provides effective, efficient, and sustainable global supply chain solutions that create operational and strategic advantage. We are driven towards being an agile, data-driven, and optimised whole-force trusted to deliver intelligent solutions, on time, every time.

The role of Supply Chain Operations will deliver (Reverse) Supply Chain ((R)SC) optimisation and coherence from Strategic Base (SB) to Far Bank in order to support global deploy, sustain and recovery activity in accordance with Defence priorities and be enabled to control SB Outload activity and ensuring Value for Defence.

**Person specification**:
Responsibilities of the role include but are not limited to;
- Co-ordinate and regulate the outload of materiel and equipment to support the Strategic Base Outload Plan (SBOP) / Baseline Activity Current Operations (BACO).
- Provide Consignment Tracking and visibility of the totality of materiel flowing through the forward and reverse supply chains in support of Strat Base Outload, exercises, enduring and contingent operations, PJOBs and deployed units.
- Management of Task Issues of materiel to support BACO and SBOP.
- Liaison with internal and external stakeholders.
- Management of Special Operation and Exercise Codes for Defence.
- Utilising Support Performance Management Information data, carry out analysis of deployed units inventories and supply chain behaviour to identify and improve supply chain performance where required.
- Assure and co-ordinate Theatre Priority Lists (TPL) for forward and reverse supply chains.
- Act as SME on all matters relating to Forward SC/RSC performance and coherence, inclusive of the capture and promulgation of Lessons Identified.
- Conduct exception management and manage scarcity.
- This post may be re-deployed within DSCOM to support the priorities of the FLC deploying Force in line with trade and grade.

**Behaviours**:
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

- Leadership
- Managing a Quality Service
- Working Together
- Seeing the Big Picture

**Technical skills**:
We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

- Competence SCM7: Logistics Analysis and Modelling
- Competence 6: Manage the Joint Supply Chain interface.

**Benefits**:
As a unique business, we offer in-house training as well as external development opportunities towards industry recognised qualifications.

We offer a flexible, inclusive work package which takes into consideration differing life circumstances and is crafted to support you through the lifetime of your employment and beyond.

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