Defence Support

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

- 267981**Salary**:

- £54,440**Job grade**:

- Grade 7**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

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

- Analytical
- Logistics
- Planning**Working pattern**:

- Annualised hours, Flexible working, Full-time, Job share**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 Grade 7 Strategic Planner is required to lead on the delivery of both strategic and operational planning analysis within Defence Supply Chain Operations and Movements (DSCOM) Plans pillar, supporting Defence decisions on Strategic Base Outload (SBO) planning, Contingent Operations support, and assessing planning assumptions and outputs for emergent and routine activity. The outputs should enable Evidence Based Decision Making (EBDM) by senior decision makers ensuring that Value for Money is considered, risks and consequences of options are understood, and the reasoning behind choices made can be recorded, and fed into strategic cycles.

**Person specification**:
Responsibilities of the role include but are not limited to;
- Maintaining a wide understanding of Defence policy and strategy to ensure that all analysis and planning is developed with consideration of those factors. Using analysis and evidence to inform policy changes where appropriate, to influence decisions.
- Leading on DSCOM’s interaction into the Head Office’s Strategic Effects Cycle (SEC), and PJHQ’s Operational Effects Management Process (OEMP) which feeds the SEC. Drawing on the wider analysis and planning work to offer evidence and options into those forums.
- Supporting the development and delivery of Strategic Base Outload (SBO) plans and collaborate in the development of planning within DSCOM by working with the DSCOM Plans pillar.
- Providing analytical support to the development of Courses of Action (COAs) across the wide range of planning activity in DSCOM.
- Supporting the continued development and delivery of the DSCOM Planning and Execution Cycle (DPEC) process in order to support the Defence Activity Plan (DAP) including utilising data to drive changes and improvements to the Defence Supply chain.
- Presenting the outcome of analysis to senior stakeholders. Effectively communicating with a wide variety of internal and external stakeholders.
- Effectively exploit and interpret movement and Support Chain data, from DPEC, DSCOM Stats Hub, and other sources, to enable positive management change.
- Enabling frequent time sensitive questions and issues to be analysed including input to senior decision briefs and MINSUBs when required.

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

- Leadership
- Communicating and Influencing
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