Head of Supply Chain Management

4 weeks ago


England, United Kingdom Tech Connect Group Full time

We are recruiting for a Head of Supply Chain to work for a high-performance vehicle engineering customer or ours in Silverstone.

This is an exceptional opportunity for someone to join an ambitious, growing and highly capable motorsport SME - with an already impressive client portfolio.

Successful applicants will have well established Supply Chain / Procurement management backgrounds within the automotive and/or motorsport sector with excellent strategic and leadership skills

About the role

  • Working in an extremely agile purchasing and supplier management department you will be reporting into the Chief Commercial Officer.
  • Your role will be vital to the day to day running of the department, ensuring parts are supplied into programmes on time and to budget.
  • You will support the company with ongoing programme supplier management, day to day purchasing, whilst reporting into the business risks and opportunities.
  • You will be managing a range of highly technical components and their associated supply chains. Regular reporting of the supply chain status both within the business and customer facing.
  • You will lead the day-to-day supplier and subcon management activities and you will have the ability to identify risks and put in place risk mitigation strategies to enable continuous supply.
  • For new programme opportunities, you will provide guidance for estimates and support the growth of the company s engineering business activity.

Main Duties

  • Lead the ongoing workplan for the Supplier Management, Purchasing and Buying activities.
  • Work with the supply chain, building and continually improving supplier / customer relationships, with initiatives to improve processes throughout.
  • Clearly and openly communicate with stakeholders identifying ways to streamline purchasing, distribution, supplier warehousing and logistics.
  • Support programmes through to completion ensuring on-time delivery and maintaining overall project ownership related to supplier selection, delivery, cost, risks and opportunities.
  • Develop timelines, and ensure tracking of progress to plan, whilst clearly communicating critical project achievements and/or risks.
  • Ownership of the supply base commercials, ensuring contracts are in place, maintained to support the delivery requirements of the programmes end customer.
  • Develop a cohesive team to support the departmental workload with seamless alignment to input/ouput functions in the business.

Person Specification: Core competencies and experience.

The Head of Supplier Management will have the chance to be involved in diverse and interesting projects.

All applicants are required to have;

  • Project Management: Project management is the discipline of initiating, planning, executing, controlling, and closing the work of a team to achieve specific goals and meet specific success criteria.
  • Supply Chain Knowledge: system and data knowledge, Factory Master or, other ERP, MRP systems, and has experience delivering activities, information, and resources involved in moving a product or service from supplier to customer.
  • Supply Chain Project Management: Experience maintaining a supply chain, commercial agreement management, collaborative intercompany approvals, assessment with team input for supplier quality and any alignment between functions to understand the commercial output for actions requested of the suppliers.
  • Proposal cost analysis: data led trend assessment to support initial proposal development and further activity for firm proposal submission.
  • Supplier onboarding, commercial risk alignment, contract negotiation and budget control through VFM assessments.
  • Supply Chain Coordination: Channel coordination aims at improving supply chain performance by aligning the plans and the objectives of each supplier, monitoring via KPI s.
  • Supply Chain Strategy: Working experience of Supply Chain Strategy, which is an iterative process that evaluates the cost- benefit trade-offs of operational components.
  • Demand Planning: Demand planning is a multi-step operational supply chain management process used to create reliable forecasts. Effective demand planning will be required to support ongoing programme modelling.
  • Supply Chain Solutions: Continuous improvement activity with high cost, high risk suppliers.
  • Cross functional team building: inclusive decision making, and escalation buy in experience.
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