Job description
Supply Chain Manager - Relocation Provided
Relocate to your dream job in North Devon. Our client has had a big investment in their North Devon site and is looking to build a dynamic Plant Leadership team. This is an incredible opportunity to work with a collaborative team, build meaningful relationships with top-tier Aerospace Industry professionals, and shape the future of our site in an ever-evolving industry. Get great pay and company benefits such as pension, health/dental care and bonus scheme.
What is the purpose of the Supply Chain Manager role?
As the Supply Chain Manager in the Aerospace industry, your role is vital in overseeing and managing key supply chain functions from end to end. You will be responsible for materials planning, scheduling, and ordering activities associated with delivering specific customer products. Additionally, you will handle direct and indirect material purchasing, inventory control and warehousing, as well as shipping and receiving. Your objective is to ensure the efficient movement of materials through the supply chain, achieve cost-effective logistics practices, maintain optimal inventory levels, and meet customer delivery requirements.
What will you do as a Supply Chain Manager?
Relocate to your dream job in North Devon. Our client has had a big investment in their North Devon site and is looking to build a dynamic Plant Leadership team. This is an incredible opportunity to work with a collaborative team, build meaningful relationships with top-tier Aerospace Industry professionals, and shape the future of our site in an ever-evolving industry. Get great pay and company benefits such as pension, health/dental care and bonus scheme.
What is the purpose of the Supply Chain Manager role?
As the Supply Chain Manager in the Aerospace industry, your role is vital in overseeing and managing key supply chain functions from end to end. You will be responsible for materials planning, scheduling, and ordering activities associated with delivering specific customer products. Additionally, you will handle direct and indirect material purchasing, inventory control and warehousing, as well as shipping and receiving. Your objective is to ensure the efficient movement of materials through the supply chain, achieve cost-effective logistics practices, maintain optimal inventory levels, and meet customer delivery requirements.
What will you do as a Supply Chain Manager?
- Engage and collaborate with direct and indirect teams, significant stakeholders, and the leadership team within the Aerospace division to effectively represent site goals and strategies.
- Manage current and future demand requirements, aligning manufacturing and supplier capabilities/capacities to meet customer requirements.
- Implement methods, practices, and techniques to optimize the movement of materials and achieve cost-effective logistics practices while ensuring customer delivery requirements are met.
- Implement and maintain the plant's Sales, Inventory, and Operations Planning (SIOP) process.
- Manage the material cost and schedule impact of proposed engineering changes, ensuring successful implementation and incorporation of approved engineering releases.
- Ensure the quality of shipping documentation to meet corporate financial and customer audit requirements.
- Evaluate operational performance to facilitate performance management, talent development, promotions, and transfers.
- Coordinate with the central Corporate Supply Chain Function to provide data and participate in teams to drive best practices across the corporation.
- Proven leadership experience, including managing managers and teams within a supply chain function.
- Thorough understanding of supply chain management operational concepts, including production planning, scheduling, purchasing, supplier selection, inventory control, logistics, and shipping/receiving.
- Demonstrable Manufacturing experience essential
- Detailed knowledge of Lean Manufacturing and Process Variation Reduction.
- Financial performance experience.
- Understanding of sales forecasting and inventory management.
- Supplier performance auditing and development experience is ideal but not required.
- Competitive salary and benefits package including health/dental care, company pension, bonus scheme.
- Relocation assistance if required.
- Our Client makes your growth matter - They invest in their employees for the long term – not just with salary and benefits, but with ongoing learning and development opportunities.