Supply Chain Specialist

**COMPANY BACKGROUND**:
Slingco is an award-winning supplier of high-quality cable grip and wire rope products, with over 40 years of industry heritage. We serve customers in over 60 countries worldwide from our head office in Lancashire, UK, and base in Georgia, USA.

We design and manufacture to the highest specifications and test to destruction. If our products do not meet and exceed the most stringent national and international standards, they’re not good enough for our customers.

At Slingco, our goal is to create innovative high-quality products that our customers can depend on, whilst providing a positive experience for our customers and our employees. Every aspect of our work, culture and commitment to innovation is driven by our core values.

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As part of the Supply Chain team, you will be responsible for creating maximum value for Slingco through the development, execution and effective management of strategic sourcing and fulfilment plans.

**KEY DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES**:

- Support and cover for the Group Purchasing Manager to ensure right products at the right time at the right price.
- Ensure all company policies and processes are defined and adhered to.
- Challenge and report the impact to the business on cost increases.
- Drive and lead cost reduction workshops.
- Develop, maintain, and enhance relationships with internal and external suppliers and customers.
- Negotiate with suppliers to achieve best commercial and contract terms.
- Be part of the Sourcing team to develop robust supply chains that can support the company’s growth plans.
- Identify, select, and contract suppliers.
- Find re-sourcing opportunities via stakeholder engagement and data analysis.
- Work closely with the Supplier Development Manager to manage supplier performance with respect to cost, quality, service, and risk.
- Represent Supply Chain for New Product Introduction and existing product development strategies.
- Negotiate and manage NPD commercial activities across the global supply chain.
- Conduct research to support contract and commercial negotiations.
- Prepare, evaluate, and execute RFQ packages.
- Carry out benchmarking and cost analysis reports.
- Lead continuous improvement initiatives that will generate value through increase supplier performance or capabilities.
- Responsibilities extend across the finished goods category - defined as a group or groups of related goods.
- In the role, you will create a network of key stakeholders and executive sponsors across manufacturing, quality, regulatory, R&D, engineering, sales, marketing, and finance.
- Review process flows in existing supply chains to identify risks.
- Agree disaster recovery plans for risks that cannot be eliminated.
- Obtain supplier business continuity risks and keep register up to date.
- Monitor, analyse and act on departmental KPI’s.
- Assist design in the evaluation and qualification of new products.
- Support onboarding activities of new suppliers.
- Maintain the company approved supplier list and agree audit schedules.
- Support off site business review meetings as and when required. Overseas and UK.
- Attend meetings and training courses as required.
- Provide data analysis as required and support the Global Supply Chain Director.

**PERSON SPECIFICATION**:

- Always act in accordance with Slingco values.
- Is self-aware, assertive, resilient and welcomes change.
- Excellent interpersonal and influencing skills.
- Commercial awareness with good understanding of the business.
- Promote a positive, delivery and results focused atmosphere throughout the team and company in general.
- Able to work efficiently, under pressure.
- Professional in appearance and behaviour.
- Able to work effectively in a team and on own initiative.
- Ability to think holistically and creatively to solve problems.
- Action orientated with keen attention to detail and accuracy.
- Excellent communication skills. Always listens attentively to others and is willing to act on what is said and speaks with clarity and demonstrates an ability to match their communication style to the people they are talking to.
- Able to manage time effectively prioritise work in line with company goals and deliver set targets.
- Good influencer and negotiation skills.
- Produces written work to the highest standard.
- Flexible in their attitude and approach to work.
- Excellent record of timekeeping and attendance.
- Highly motivated, personable, resilient, and positive in attitude.
- Will take the initiative and develop innovative solutions to problems.
- Always willing to take full responsibility for own actions.
- Always respects rules of confidentiality and behaves in a non-discriminatory manner.
- Communicates proactively with all stakeholders with openness and honesty and encourage others in the team to do likewise.
- Forward thinking. Heads of off problems before they materialise.
- Ability to identify opportunities and see them through to implementation.

**EXPERIE