At a Glance
- Tasks: Manage logistics for end user devices, ensuring timely delivery and readiness.
- Company: Join a leading tech firm focused on national security and collaboration.
- Benefits: Up to £45,000 salary, 25 days leave, health plan, and flexible working options.
- Other info: Dynamic team culture with opportunities for professional development and mentorship.
- Why this job: Be part of high-profile projects that make a real difference in defence and government.
- Qualifications: Experience in logistics and IT service delivery, with strong project management skills.
The predicted salary is between 42000 - 45000 £ per year.
Are you an experienced logistics professional who thrives on ensuring the right equipment is in the right place at the right time?
Logistics Lead
, you will play a critical role in delivering end user equipment to support onboarding events and operational activity in the UK and overseas.
You will focus on the end-to-end flow of devices, ensuring readiness across complex delivery environments.
You will be supporting a market-leading, secure collaboration platform designed for international defence and government programmes.
This platform enables trusted cross-border information sharing.
As we continue to scale, you will play an important part in supporting high-profile programmes and a growing user base.
You will join a collaborative and fast-paced team, working with delivery teams, technical specialists and customer stakeholders to ensure devices, services and infrastructure come together effectively.
You will take ownership of complex logistics activity while contributing to a wider team focused on quality and service excellence.
Our team is based in Farnborough, with occasional travel to other sites as required.
To support effective collaboration, our preference is two days a week onsite, and we are happy to consider flexible arrangements such as a compressed working week.
- What you’ll be doing
- Managing end-to-end logistics of EUDs (End User Devices), ensuring equipment is configured, delivered and ready for use.
- Planning and coordinating shipments, ensuring security, scheduling and delivery requirements are met.
- Monitoring stock levels, supply lead times and configuration cycles to maintain continuity of supply.
- Aligning logistics activity with programme plans and customer demand requirements.
- Tracking dependencies across onboarding activities to ensure readiness of devices, infrastructure and services.
- Managing performance against SLAs (Service Level Agreements), reporting on delivery metrics and driving improvements.
- What you’ll bring
- Experience managing logistics in technical environments, focusing on end-to-end equipment delivery.
- Knowledge of project management principles, including dependency management, scheduling and contingency planning.
- Experience within IT service delivery environments, including device integration with infrastructure.
- Ability to analyse data to support forecasting, reporting and performance tracking.
- Experience working with SLAs and performance metrics.
- Security Cleared or eligible for Security Clearance.
- It would be great if you had
- Experience working in client or customer-facing roles.
- Understanding of service delivery models within operational environments.
- Experience creating reporting dashboards for stakeholders.
- Experience managing budgets and working to cost and revenue targets.
- Knowledge of contract management within structured frameworks.
If you’re interested in this role but not sure if your skills and experience are exactly what we’re looking for, please do apply, we’d love to hear from you!
Security Clearance Level: Security Cleared or eligible for Security Clearance.
Internal Recruiter: Paul.
Benefits: 25 days annual leave with the choice to buy additional days, health cash plan, life assurance, and pension.
Although this role is advertised as full‑time, we believe that flexibility at work can promote work/life balance, increase your motivation, reduce stress and improve performance and productivity.
We support different ways of working and can offer a range of flexible working arrangements.
So, if you’re interested and need to work flexibly, we encourage you to apply and talk to us about what might be possible.
Loved reading about this job and want to know more about us?
Sopra Steria’s Aerospace, Defence and Security business designs, develops and deploys digital solutions to Central Government clients.
The work we do makes a real difference to the client’s goal of National Security, and we operate in a unique and privileged environment.
We are given time for professional development activities, and we coach and mentor our colleagues, sharing knowledge and learning from each other.
We foster a culture in which employees feel valued and supported and have pride in their work for the customer, delivering outstanding rates of customer satisfaction in the UK’s most complex safety- and security‑critical markets.
We embrace difference as a source of creativity, innovation and competitive advantage and are striving to become a more diverse organisation.
We welcome applications from people with a diverse variety of backgrounds and identities.
We are committed to equality of opportunity for all and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation or marital status.
We have partnered with Vercida, the UK's largest diversity and inclusion focused careers site, where all our vacancies are available in an accessible format.
If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, to enable you to perform to the best of your ability, please let us know when completing your application.
We participate in the Disability Confident scheme and are committed to offering an interview to any candidate with a disability, who meets the minimum criteria for the role.
If you believe this could apply to you, please let us know when completing your application.
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