Supply Chain Manager
Posted 1 week ago by Meritus
£50 Per hour
Inside
Undetermined
Bolton, Greater Manchester
Summary: The Supply Chain Manager role at MERITUS involves joining a Defence client's equipment team on a 6-month contract in Bolton. The successful candidate will leverage their expertise to enhance supplier performance and manage risks within a dynamic environment. This position requires strong interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate effectively across all business levels. The role is classified as inside IR35 with a competitive hourly rate.
Key Responsibilities:
- Support effective supplier performance, capability, and risk management.
- Manage and implement both established and emerging technologies across multiple programmes.
- Conduct internal and external assessments, including business maturity and planning control.
- Develop and expand professional networks through strong relationship management.
- Improve supplier performance using appropriate tools and lean methodologies.
- Manage a portfolio of suppliers, including performance reporting and risk management.
- Create and validate process flows, conduct lead time analysis, and identify capacity bottlenecks.
- Apply structured problem-solving techniques to conduct root cause analysis and implement improvement plans.
- Identify, escalate, and mitigate supply chain risks, managing them through to resolution.
- Deliver executive-level summaries based on analysis conducted.
Key Skills:
- Strong internal and external assessment capabilities.
- Excellent negotiating and influencing skills.
- Results-oriented with a strong drive to succeed.
- Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.
- Degree-qualified or equivalent in Supply Chain management.
- Experience in high-technology environments, particularly in Aerospace and Defence.
- Proven ability to improve supplier performance and manage supply chain risks.
- Experience with structured problem-solving techniques (e.g., DMAIC).
- SC21 Practitioner experience is desirable.
Salary (Rate): £50/hour
City: Bolton
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: undetermined
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
MERITUS are recruiting for a Supply Chain Manager to join our Defence client on an initial 6 month contract within their equipment's team in Bolton.
SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGER - INSIDE IR35 - £50 PER HOUR - BOLTON, GREATER MANCHESTER - 6 MONTHS - SINGLE STAGE INTERVIEW PROCESS
Overview of the Department
An opportunity has arisen for a Supply Chain Manager to join an equipment-focused team. The successful candidate will use their experience and knowledge to support effective supplier performance, capability, and risk management.
The team operates across multiple programmes within a dynamic environment, managing and implementing both established and emerging technologies.
Responsibilities, Skills & Experience Required
- Strong internal and external assessment capabilities, including: Business maturity
- Planning and control
- Relationship management
- Manufacturing excellence
- Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to develop and expand professional networks
- Desirable: SC21 Practitioner experience
- Very good negotiating and influencing skills
- Results-oriented with a strong drive to succeed
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to: Communicate verbally
- Communicate in writing
- Present at all levels of the business
Experience & Capability
Ideally degree-qualified (or equivalent) Supply Chain professional with experience working internationally in high-technology environments
Experience in supply chain management within: Aerospace
Defence
Manufacturing
Proven ability to: Improve supplier performance (delivery and quality) using appropriate tools and lean methodologies
Manage a portfolio of suppliers on a day-to-day basis, including performance reporting and supply chain risk management
Assess supplier capability against delivery requirements, including current and future state analysis
Create and validate process flows, conduct lead time analysis, and identify capacity bottlenecks, yield, resources, and sub-tier mapping to build an overall supplier view
Apply structured problem-solving techniques (e.g. DMAIC: Define, Measure, Analyse, Improve, Control) to conduct root cause analysis and implement improvement plans
Identify, escalate, and mitigate supply chain risks, managing them through to resolution
Conduct analysis and deliver executive-level summaries