The Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport in the UK · RQF Level 5
CILT(UK) Level 5 Diploma In Express Logistics (VRQ)
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 5
- Total credits46
- Guided learning330.5 hours
- Units in this qualification8
Awarded by The Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport in the UK · on the Ofqual register
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
These are the units The Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport in the UK registers against this qualification. It is a catalogue, not a syllabus. Which of them you take depends on the combination the qualification requires, and that is set by the awarding body rather than by us. Every unit here is regulated, and every one you earn is yours to keep.
Analyse information on the supply chainReal unit · The Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport in the UK
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to analyse information on the supply chain
- Analyse information on the supply chain
Build own organisation’s understanding of its market and customers in supply chain management or a logistics operationReal unit · The Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport in the UK
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to build own organisation’s understanding of its market and customers in supply chain management or a logistics operation
- Build own organisation’s understanding of its market and customers in supply chain management or a logistics operation
Develop productive working relationships with colleagues and stakeholders in supply chain management or a logistics operationReal unit · The Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport in the UK
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to develop productive working relationships with colleagues and stakeholders in supply chain management or a logistics operation
- Develop productive working relationships with stakeholders and colleagues in the supply chain or a logistics operation
Manage business processes in supply chain management or a logistics operationReal unit · The Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport in the UK
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to manage business processes in supply chain management or a logistics operation
- Manage business processes in supply chain management or a logistics operation
Manage contracts in supply chain management or a logistics operationReal unit · The Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport in the UK
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to manage contracts in supply chain management or a logistics operation
- Manage contracts in supply chain management or a logistics operation
Managing communicationReal unit · The Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport in the UK
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how information and knowledge is communicated within an organisation
- Understand factors that impact on workplace communication
- Promote effective interpersonal communication
- Review communication within an organisation
Provide leadership for your team in logistics operationsReal unit · The Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport in the UK
What you'll be able to do
- Provide leadership for own team in logistics operations
- Provide leadership in own team in logistics operations
Share knowledge and good practiceReal unit · The Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport in the UK
What you'll be able to do
- Plan to share knowledge and good practice
- Share knowledge and good practice
- Incorporate new knowledge into own practice
- Evaluate the sharing of knowledge and good practice
The honest bit
You’ve started things before
Most courses were built for a room full of people who aren’t you. A cohort moves on whether or not your week allowed it, and by the third week the thing you’re behind on becomes the reason you stop opening it.
There’s no cohort here, and no timetable to fall behind. Before anything starts, Zavmo asks when you’re sharpest and how long you can realistically sit down for, then builds the sessions around those answers. A bad fortnight changes your pace. It doesn’t put you behind.
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Your passport
Every credit is a stamp you keep
Level 5 credits are regulated. They don’t vanish when a subscription ends or a website closes. They travel to any employer, and Zavmo keeps the map of what you’ve earned and what’s next.
Each stamp is a real unit registered against this qualification.
Who’d teach you this

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Where these credits take you
A qualification is never a dead end here. See the jobs its credits open, the national occupational standards its units map to, and the future skills they quietly build.
- Carry out market analysis and research to develop new markets in logistics operations
- Communicate with clients and colleagues regarding logistics services
- Contract with other organisations
- Initiate, negotiate and manage supplier contracts in international logistics operations
- Interpret and comply with a contract for logistics services
- Review the outcomes of contracts
Where this can lead
Logistics Supervisor / Lead
Your journey here as a Logistics Supervisor / Lead is just the beginning. We're looking for someone who wants to grow, learn, and make a real difference. If you're ready for a challenging but incredibly rewarding career in Operations, we'd love to chat.
See the whole journey →Showing 6 roles, drawn from 69 job records mapped to this qualification.
Skills it covers
What the job actually needs. These are the standards the units are built against, in the words employers and awarding bodies already use for the work itself.
How you’ll actually learn this
One-to-one, on your own real work
A qualification is usually something done to you: sit the class, sit the exam, hope it sticks. Here it’s the opposite. You learn it one-to-one with a companion, on your own real work, and you keep going until you can use it, not just recall it.
Applied to your work in any of these jobs
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
Built for CILT(UK) Level 5 Diploma In Express Logistics (VRQ)
8 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by The Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport in the UK.
- Analyse information on the supply chain
- Build own organisation’s understanding of its market and customers in supply chain management or a logistics operation
- Develop productive working relationships with colleagues and stakeholders in supply chain management or a logistics operation
- Manage business processes in supply chain management or a logistics operation
- Manage contracts in supply chain management or a logistics operation
- Managing communication
and 2 more in the full unit list below.
One to one, not one to many
No two people run this the same way
A course is written once and handed to everyone. This is assembled around you, and keeps changing as it learns you. Five things it reads, and what each one changes.
- Your actual work Every unit is taught against a live piece of your own work, not a worked example from a textbook.
- What you already know The first conversation finds your starting point, so you skip what you can already do and spend the time on what you cannot.
- The conditions you learn under Not a learning-styles quiz. The evidence does not support those. The dimensions the research does back, read once and used to shape the plan.
- How far you got last time It picks up mid-thought. The tutor knows what you said, what you struggled with, and what it asked you to try.
- Which tutor suits the moment Twelve of them, each for a different kind of thinking. The one who walks you through a first idea is not the one who stress-tests it.
See how you learn, free. Eight questions, no sign-up. A directional taster; the diagnostic inside Zavmo goes deeper and keeps adapting.
Why it sticks
Most courses stop at remembering
There’s a well-known ladder of how deeply you learn something, called Bloom’s Taxonomy. Most courses get you up the first two rungs: you remember some facts, you pass a test, you forget it. Real skill lives at the top. Judging, deciding, creating. And this isn’t a generic ladder: every rung has a named Zavmo tutor who walks you up it.
- 6CreateThe Creative Catalyst
- 5EvaluateThe Evidence Evaluator
- 4AnalyseThe Analyst
- 3ApplyThe Coach
- 2UnderstandThe Connector
- 1RememberThe Builder
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The value
Why the companion is worth £70 a month
You’re not paying for the units. They’re regulated, and the same wherever you earn them. You’re paying for the one thing that decides whether you actually get there: a companion that makes them stick, on your real work.
That is one-to-one on this qualification, every day, on the work you already do, for £70 a month. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it. Billed monthly, cancel any time and billing stops.
Earned on your own work, taught to the top.
Everything you just read, learned one-to-one on the job you already do. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it.
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