Logistics Operations Excellence Manager

Job Description

Job Title: Logistics Operations Excellence Manager

Location: UK Wide. We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.

Salary: Circa £70,000

What you’ll be doing:

• Leading and facilitating logistics process improvement projects using Lean, and other continuous improvement methodologies to enhance operational efficiency and effectiveness.
• Developing and implementing operational excellence strategies across the business in alignment with UK Transport and Logistics strategy, ensuring integration with business processes and systems.
• Manage and influence internal and external stakeholder relationships to ensure successful delivery of logistics process improvement in line with UK Transport and Logistics strategy
• Lead and influence cross-business/cross-functional team(s), providing expertise and delivery of business requirements
• Be seen by internal and external stakeholders as a subject expert for warehouse efficiency within the business.  Role holder will provide expertise, regularly partnering with others to meet strategic goals and support implementation of large scale change projects
• Accountable for operational KPI improvement programmes
• Ability to deputise for the Senior Manager

Your skills and experiences:

Essential:

• Comprehensive understanding of business process management (BPM) principles and concepts
• Ability to align management systems and foster a culture of continuous improvement
• Experienced in the use of project management techniques for successful implementation of improvement initiatives
• Expertise in establishing logistics metrics to measure performance and drive ongoing improvement efforts.
• Good understanding of external logistics environment and relevant market trends
• Ability to utilise data to identify root cause and inform robust business decisions
• Experience operating 3PL warehousing and/or transport operations

Desirable:

• Lean 6 sigma black belt

Benefits:

As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems also offers employee share plans, an extensive range of flexible discounted health, wellbeing and lifestyle benefits, including a green car scheme, private health plans and shopping discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

The Transportation and Logistics Team:

Are you an experienced logistics professional looking to be part of a growing team transforming the logistics and transport capability of a multinational defence business. You will be pivotal in developing and executing strategic cross-sector transportation & logistics initiatives across UK PLC, to support and ensure the overall efficiency and effectiveness of end to end supply chain. You will be a key technical and subject matter expert for transportation and logistics providing professional and thought leadership. You will also identify and deploy best practices originating internally and externally, to challenge existing methodologies to define and resolve complex problems in areas critical to the achievement of sector and business unit objectives.

Why BAE Systems?

This is a place where you’ll be able to make a real difference. You’ll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and particularly from sections of the community who are currently underrepresented within our industry, including women, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities and LGBTQ+ individuals. We also want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.

Please be aware that many roles at BAE Systems are subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors such as your nationality, any nationalities you may have previously held, and your place of birth can restrict the roles you are eligible to perform within the organisation.

All applicants must as a minimum achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting where applicants must typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending on the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks.

Closing Date: 17th April 2025

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

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