Overview

LMI is seeking a skilled senior consultant to provide day-to-day leadership, analytical and strategic logistics support services to the office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Sustainment (ODASD(Logistics)). DASD(Logistics) serves as a principal staff assistant and advisor to the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Sustainment (ASD(S)), Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition & Sustainment (USD(A&S)), and Secretary of Defense (SECDEF) on logistics and materiel readiness in the Department of Defense (DoD) and is the principal logistics official within the senior management of the DoD.

LMI is a consultancy dedicated to improving the business of government, drawing from deep expertise in advanced analytics, digital services, logistics, and management advisory services. Established in 1961, LMI is a trusted third party to federal civilian and defense agencies, free of commercial and political bias. Our clients value our specialized services in logistics, intelligence, homeland security, health care, and energy and environment markets. We offer a generous compensation package with excellent benefits that start the first day of employment. Business casual dress, flex time, and tuition reimbursement are a few of our many work-life benefits available to our employees.

Responsibilities

• Perform duties as task lead to ensure that vendor threat mitigation (VTM) and contingency support (CS) program development, implementation, monitoring and reporting are executed in a timely and professional manner to the client’s satisfaction.
• Supports client efforts to develop and institutionalize VTM capability within DoD and in collaboration with the whole of government.
• Provide support to government organizations such as the OSD Staff, the Joint Staff, and the Combatant Commanders in the areas of Operational Contract Support and Vendor Threat Mitigation to ensure enterprise wide efficient, cost-effective end-to-end performance.
• Work with a diverse set of stakeholders in geographically disbursed areas.
• Analyze and assess DoD and other government agency logistics and supply chain policies and procedures against current performance metrics and make recommendations on policy and/or process improvements.
• Provide administrative and technical writing support for the successful maintenance and update of DoD and other government agency operational contract support and vendor threat mitigation issuances and directives.
• Plan the logistics and facilitation of large-scale working groups ( 100 attendees) with interagency partners with both virtual and in-person meeting sessions. This includes the development of agendas, presentations, white papers, meeting summaries, rosters, and other items.
• Track actions/taskings related to VTM lines of effort; support the review of vendor threat mitigation processes and policies; and maintain VTM distribution lists and rosters.
• Develop and publish agenda, meeting summary, and draft talking points for government client(s) and senior leadership.
• Conduct outreach with other DoD and interagency personnel with a high degree of professionalism.
• Provide administrative and technical writing support for the successful maintenance and update of DoD and other government agency operational contract support and vendor threat mitigation issuances and directives.
• Prepare and finalize correspondence including letters, memoranda, briefings, speeches, presentations, meeting minutes, and reports. Maintain communication mediums including distribution lists, rosters, and SharePoint sites.
• Schedule internal and external meetings, including reservation of conference space, notification to attendees, parking requests, visitor access control and all arrangements from set-up to completion.
• Maintain confidential or sensitive information and documents.
• Performs liaison with staffs of high-level government officials, private industry, special interest, and user groups. Responds to inquiries on policy and other matters on behalf of and consistent with the government lead’s views.

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of supply chain risk management principles, tools and methodologies.
• Knowledge of logistics and transportation operations.
• Master’s degree in logistics, business analytics and/or other sustainment background is preferred.
• 10 years relevant experience required.
• Prior military or DoD civilian/contractor experience (preferred).
• Understanding of OSD and DoD organizational structure.
• Demonstrated ability to use MS Office Suite to include Word, PowerPoint, and Excel.
• Superior communication skills, both oral and written.
• High energy, enthusiasm, tact, ability to effectively interact with senior executives from Government and industry as well as Pentagon staff members.
• Ability to create and foster a cooperative work environment.
• Self-directed, detail oriented in completing assigned tasks, able to adapt to changing work efforts and manage impact of shifting priorities.
• This position requires an active security clearance at the SECRET level. You must be a US citizen.

EEO Statement

LMI is an Equal Opportunity Employer, where all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin.