Supply Chain Partner

Are you an experienced supply chain professional looking for the next step in your career? We have a 12 month opportunity for supply chain partner to join us in our commercial team.

Your role will be to identify and implement efficiencies within the supply chain to reduce the costs of goods and improve customer service. You’ll be instrumental in pulling together internal controls and processes, working collaboratively with the business making process improvements and providing supply chain management and commercial insights.

As our Supply Chain Partner, you will be instrumental in creating a pipeline and helping to establish a framework for suppliers. As well as proactively identifying and enhancing efficient ways of working. You’ll be responsible for setting up a robust provision to support programmes across the group to support DLO delivery targets as an example.

Of course, there’s also an element of future proofing so you’ll play a key role in strategic forecasting ensuring the supply chain is flexible on demand and can meet the needs of our business as we grow and adapt.

**About you**

You will bring with you demonstrable experience in supply chain management and be able to look at current ways of working with a view to make them more efficient and effective to meet the needs of the business.

Communication will be key as you will be working with a variety of stakeholders, whose needs you will have to manage. We are going through a period of change with our supply chain, so you will need to be adaptable, flexible and open to challenging conversations to ensure we are getting the best out of our supply chain.

You will also need to have experience analysing and managing data, prices, and purchase information as there’s elements of procurement involved (but you don’t need to be a procurement expert, we have a team in-house who will support).

The role can be carried out flexibly, we work in a hybrid way, but you will need to be willing and able to travel across our operating areas as and when required.

**What’s in it for me**

We invest in our colleagues because we know if they have a better day at work, the service our customers receive will be better. The Aster Offer is our offer to our colleagues to ensure they have a great day at work and includes things like:

- Flexible working - whilst some roles need to be carried out in a specific place at a specific time, where possible we encourage our colleagues to work to their own schedule at a location that suits them, their team and our business’ needs
- A focus on colleague wellbeing - workshops, an employee assistance programme offering counselling and support, mental health training and a health cash plan
- We invest in colleagues’ careers and development through our leader and colleague development frameworks
- Defined Contribution Pension and attached life assurance
- Volunteering hours available to all colleagues to enable them to give back
- Savings at cinemas, gyms, holidays, days out, various shops and eateries and lots more
- Enhanced leave
- We celebrate colleagues who go above and beyond with a range of personalised recognition initiatives, and monthly and annual awards.

**Ready to apply?**

To apply, please use information provided in the advert and role profile to let us know why you’d be good for the job. Please submit a copy of your up-to-date CV along with a supporting statement.

We create an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity and believe that creating an environment where everyone, from any background, can do their best work is the right thing to do.

At present all interviews are being held using Microsoft Teams.