Supply Chain Manager
Posted Today by Certain Advantage
£50 Per hour
Inside
Hybrid
Bolton
Summary: The Supply Chain Manager role at a World Class Defence Organisation involves overseeing supplier performance and risk management within the Equipment's team. The position is initially a 6-month contract with a hybrid working arrangement, requiring two days on-site each week. The successful candidate will leverage their experience in supply chain management, particularly in high technology sectors like Aerospace and Defence, to enhance supplier capabilities and performance. Strong interpersonal and communication skills are essential for this role, along with a focus on achieving objectives and managing supplier relationships effectively.
Key Responsibilities:
- Ensure effective supplier performance, capability, and risk management.
- Conduct internal and external assessments related to business maturity, planning, and control.
- Manage a portfolio of suppliers and report performance and supply chain risks.
- Improve supplier performance using lean methodologies and appropriate tools.
- Assess supply chain capabilities to meet delivery profiles.
- Create and validate process flows and conduct lead time analysis.
- Identify and mitigate potential supply chain risks.
- Deliver executive summaries and conduct analysis for stakeholders.
Key Skills:
- Strong interpersonal and relationship management skills.
- Excellent negotiating and influencing abilities.
- Effective communication skills, both verbal and written.
- Experience in supply chain management within Aerospace, Defence, or Manufacturing.
- Proven ability to improve supplier performance.
- Competence in process flow creation and analysis.
- Problem-solving skills with knowledge of DMAIC techniques.
- Desirable SC21 Practitioner experience.
Salary (Rate): £50/hour
City: Bolton
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: Mid-Level
Industry: Other
World Class Defence Organisation is currently looking to recruit a Supply Chain Manager subcontractor on an initial 6 month contract.
Rate: £50.00 per hour
Location: Stevenage or Bolton, depending on your preference.
Hybrid / Remote working: 2 days onsite per week
Contract: 37 Hours per week
Overtime: Hours worked over 37 hours per week will be calculated at ‘time and a quarter’
Duration: 6 Months (initially and then ongoing and long-term thereafter)
IR35 status: Inside IR35 (Umbrella)
Supply Chain Manager Job Description:
An opportunity has arisen for a Supply Chain Manager to join ISP in the Equipment's team. The successful candidate will bring their experience and knowledge to ensure effective Supplier performance, capability & Risk management. As a team, we work across all programmes in a changing environment, managing and implementing both mature and new technologies.
Responsibilities /Skillset/experience required:
- Internal and external assessment skills/knowledge; Business maturity, planning & control, relationship management, manufacturing excellence etc…
- Strong interpersonal skills – ability to further develop his / her network
- It would be desirable if you have SC21 Practitioner experience
- Very good negotiating and influencing skills
- Objective driven, determination to succeed
- Excellent communication skills: able to communicate verbally, in writing and present to at all levels of business
- Ideally a degree calibre Supply Chain professional with experience of international working in high technology companies.
- Experience of supply chain management in the Aerospace, Defence or Manufacturing environments.
- A proven ability to:
- Demonstrated ability to improve Supplier Performance (Delivery and Quality)using appropriate tools and lean methodologies
- Managing a portfolio of suppliers on a day to day basis and reporting into designated project the performance and supply chain risk
- Assess supply chain and suppliers capability to meet delivery profile for both current state vs Future state
- Competent in creating/ validating process flows, lead time analysis, understanding capacity bottlenecks, yield, resources and sub-tier mapping activities to form an industrial view of supplier
- Hold excellent problem solving skills and understanding of techniques such as DMAIC (Define, Measure, Analyse, Improve, Control) to develop and implement root cause analysis and improvement plans within Supply Chain
- Identify, Escalate and mitigate potential Supply Chain Risks and put in place associated improvement and mitigation plans. Manage risks to closure
- Conducting analysis and providing/delivering executive summaries