Supply Chain Manager

We have a new opportunity working with our client, a global manufacturer.

As **Supply Chain Manager**, you will primarily manage all **materials**, **purchasing**, **production planning** and **inventory** elements of the supply chain whilst ensuring acceptable levels of customer service, customer communication and coordination of activities with other functional areas. Management and control of new product introductions is anotherkey part of the role.

**Overview**
- Effective planning, allocation and evaluation the work carried out by teams, individuals and oneself
- Leading and working in project teams
- Improving communication with supply chain managers in Germany and France.
- Support the development of business processes and systems to deliver business objectives
- Ensure business systems static data is maintained and accurat
- Support and ensure transactional precision within operations and business systems data
- Review and analyse systems data variances to determine root causes and deliver improvement actions
- S_ervice_
- Ensure customer sales orders are serviced to an acceptable level
- Ensure customer communications are robust, accurate and timely
- Ensure an effective, customer facing, operational interface to best understand and manage customer needs enabling proactive service development
- Sales order expediting - communication, exception needs
- Customer supply, inventory, forward demand - analysis and planning
- Identification and delivery of improvement opportunities
- Proactive service development
- Resolution of customer/service claims
- Purchasing_
- Work closely with the Sourcing function regarding negotiating supply agreements to service business objectives
- Inventory management. Ensure sufficient inventory of materials and services to meet customer and business needs. Forecast levels of demand for materials and services to meet

**Role Purpose**:

- Customer and business needs, holding minimum inventory; adjusting as appropriate in reaction to changes in demand
- Control buying activities so that service and delivery deadlines are met ensuring sustainable supply of materials and services at best cost and risk to supply is adequately understood and managed to negate service failure
- Develop methods of supply to minimise inventory ensuring supplier development in alignment with business objectives.
- Monitoring Supplier performance and progress, measuring the quality of service provided and ensuring materials and services are delivered in full, on time and to specification
- Monitor market indices to ensure incumbent supply is at fair market price and to forecast price trends and their impact on future activities
- Monitor import/export processes to ensure compliance with regulatory or legal requirements
- Resolution of supplier/service/contractor claims

**Experience / Attributes / Education**:

- Knowledge and experience of supply chain management and best practices
- Knowledge and experience of supply chain functionality within ERP/MRP systems
- Analytical, numerate and computer literate with excellent communication skills (verbal and written)
- A pragmatic and a practical problem solver driving continuous improvement
- A team player with a professional and positive approach, able to work on own initiative
- People management and change management skills (communication, influencing, assertiveness).
- Project management skills
- Self-motivated, flexible and a proactive approach to work demonstrating a dynamic and enthusiastic manner
- Ability to perform under pressure
- Degree qualified (desirable not necessary)

This position will be based on site in Shildon. Working Monday - Friday.