Demand & Supply Chain Lead

2 weeks ago


Chepstow Monmouthshire, United Kingdom IQ Endoscopes Limited Full time

Title Demand and Supply Chain Lead

Reports to COO

Reports in None – opportunity to build future team alongside business growth

Location Hybrid, 2 days per week in Chepstow. Additional travel as required.

The opportunity

IQ Endoscopes are looking for our next Demand & Supply Chain Lead to manage our full supply chain, and develop and implement critical SIOP processes for our business. This position is available at an exciting time in our company’s development as we move from an R&D focussed start-up organization to a commercial company selling an exciting new range of single use endoscope products.

This role will play a critical part in helping us to achieve our initial commercial goals and drive our scale up into higher volume manufacturing.

You will work closely with other teams (e.g. Finance, Quality, R&D & Sales) as a senior member of our Operations Team to ensure a clear and smooth translation of product demand and materials requirements to and from our external partners. Together, with our UK Manufacturing Lead, you will collate pricing information, have the ability to negotiate on pricing for components for different volume break points and run analyses to ensure understanding and control on product COGs.

Your focus initially will be

  • To establish IQE’s UK Supply Chain from Manufacture to Warehousing to Customer Sales and all associated SIOP activities
  • To be responsible for demand planning cross-functionally, identifying key constraints and developing plans to mitigate these
  • Manage and maintain records for product Cost of Goods using Excel
  • Be responsible for developing from a start-up point SIOP processes assuring product supply to support changing demand

What you must have

  • 5+ years of experience in a similar Lead, Head of or Senior supply chain, operations and/or demand planning position within a highly regulated engineering or manufacturing environment
  • Proven experience in inventory and demand management
  • Experience of defining and establishing a demand planning process
  • Track record of success in supply chain planning and logistics.
  • Knowledge of forecasting and replenishment methodologies
  • Experience of managing an operational end to end supply chain working with different supply chain functions

Who you are

You will be highly analytical with strong organisational and presentation skills and a proven ability to conduct complex and quantitative analyses complimented with qualitative inputs from multiple sources to draw conclusions and make recommendations.

An excellent communicator, collaborator and relationship builder able to build positive relationships across multiple departments, customers, and key stakeholders. You will have advanced working knowledge of Microsoft Office, particularly Microsoft Excel, strong commercial awareness, be results focused with the ability to meet commitments and deadlines and a self-motivated team member who can drive resolution to issues with strong problem-solving skills.

Culture of IQ Endoscopes

We have a product with the capacity to genuinely change lives for the better and bring huge benefits to the medical device industry and industry professionals, and we want our new colleagues to feel as passionate about our mission as we are. At IQ Endoscopes, culture is incredibly important to us and we recruit colleagues who fit that culture. This isn’t just a job to us, it’s a passion.

We want you to be a part of our vision and to find your  purpose within our organisation.

PURPOSE:  To create pioneering endoscopy technologies for the early diagnosis of diseases, helping people live longer & better

VISION: A world where everyone has easy access to safe, sterile endoscopy​

MISSION: Design and deploy high quality sustainable single- use endoscopes

STRATEGY: To enter the single -use endoscopy market  as soon as possible  with a product range that is  clinically and  commercially credible , will be adapted to meet future market demands and sets the  benchmark for carbon neutral responsibilities

VALUES: We work together to achieve shared goals through our values.... we are:

PASSIONATE: We show our pride and enthusiasm

INNOVATIVE: We challenge, question and push past the status quo

EMPOWERED: We support our people to explore their own potential

INCLUSIVE: We understand the value of an alternative perspective

TRANSPARENT: We are open to our people, sharing information and knowledge

Equity, Diversity and Inclusion at IQ Endoscopes

At IQ Endoscopes we work hard, but we give ourselves a break. We support each other, but we question and challenge each others’ thinking. We recruit highly skilled professionals and specialists, but we collaborate and listen to each other’s opinions and ideas. It doesn’t matter where you come from, what your background or beliefs are, who you love or how you express yourself. What matters is that you are you, and you can be you within our team. Our inclusive culture has grown organically as a result of focusing on recruiting the right person with the right skills. Nothing else. Plain and simple.

We welcome applications from the neuro enlightened community. Talk to us if you have any ideas about how we can improve our recruitment process. We want to know hr@iqendoscopes.co.uk.

What we will give you

Competitive salary to fit this level of position

Hybrid working usually 2 days on site Tuesday & Wednesday depending on business needs

25 days annual leave plus bank holidays

2 additional paid ‘Disconnect Days’ following probation

2 additional days paid dependents leave & paid compassionate leave: entitlement from day 1

Enhanced pension 5% paid by employer & 3% employee

Health Shield: an employee health & wellbeing platform encompassing & 24/7 EAP service as well as:

  • A cashback service for both essential and non-essential health and well-being treatments
  • GP Anytime: 24/7 access to a phone or chat based GP
  • Face to face counselling: referral where required through EAP service
  • Access to online health screening, physiotherapy & skin detection
  • Employee PERKS & gym discount scheme 


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