Supply Chain Manager

Supply Chain Manager

Weymouth

Brief

Supply Chain Manager needed for a leading defense organisation based in Weymouth who are looking to employ an experienced and well-rounded Supply Chain Manager that takes pride in their work with an in-depth knowledge of best practice opportunities and to be able to make it their own and develop a world class supply chain.

The successful candidate would desirably have a relevant experience with managing a supply chain and ideally someone that has an electronics background.

What the role entails:

Some of the main duties of the Supply Chain Manager will include:

• Identify best practice opportunities and implement.
• Build supplier relationships using agreed strategic and ethical methods to ensure a focussed, efficient and dedicated supplier base.
• Manage the MRP and customer delivery processes to ensure timely and accurate performance on all material delivery requirements.
• Work with suppliers to negotiate the most cost effective and business appropriate agreements for the supply of key materials and services which will show continual performance improvements against defined KPI's.
• Analyse and control all aspects of material inventory to minimise stock holding performance on business cash and profit. (Reduce working capital)
• Create and present accurate reports relating to inventory, material spend and commitments and supplier performances.
• Introduce clear and robust KPI's for the monitoring and improving the performance of the procurement team and its processes.

What experience you need to be the successful Supply Chain Manager:

• Ideally experience working in a responsive and agile procurement environment, particularly with Contract Manufacturing / component market experience with a global supplier network.
• Experience of managing full end to end supply chain.
• Knowledge of ERP / MRP systems.
• Proven negotiating skills.
• Experience of working to budgetary and time sensitive targets.
• Experience of managing at a departmental level.
• Setting of clear objectives and monitoring of performance

This really is a fantastic opportunity for a Supply Chain Manager to progress their career by taking the supply chain to the next level.

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