Supply Chain Manager

• Lead and promote a strong safety culture, maintaining a zero-tolerance approach to health and safety breaches and continuously improving workplace safety standards
• Own and drive regional integrated planning processes, ensuring demand and supply scenarios are clearly understood and aligned
• Lead on site IBP, identifying supply gaps and coordinating effective gap-closing actions, including impact assessment, escalation, and follow-up
• Manage supply gap mitigation through internal production and external manufacturing partners in line with group outsourcing guidelines
• Optimise finished goods inventory levels to consistently achieve target customer service levels across all supply sources
• Act as the primary regional interface with group logistics, defining storage requirements and identifying opportunities to improve efficiency and productivity
• Translate commercial demand forecasts into robust and achievable supply plans
• Work closely with manufacturing sites to balance production plans, minimise cost, and ensure timely availability of raw materials and components
• Ensure site capacity assumptions, constraints, and improvement plans are accurately reflected in monthly planning and IBP cycles
• Support new product introductions and manage product lifecycles to enable effective ramp-up, phase-out, and inventory control
• Lead initiatives to reduce inventory risk, including ownership of obsolescence and SLOB management processes
• Ensure accurate monitoring and control of inventory and WIP, maintaining high stock accuracy through cross-functional coordination
• Define supply chain performance targets and regularly review progress against KPIs
• Drive a culture of continuous improvement using recognised CI tools and methodologies
• Build, organise, and develop the regional supply chain team, empowering individuals to take ownership and deliver high levels of internal and external service

• Seasoned supply chain professional with an in-depth knowledge of the end-to-end planning process within a fast-moving manufacturing environment
• Strong experience of supply chain data management & MRP systems
• Demonstrable knowledge of & track record with CI/Lean methodologies
• Passion & drive for team leadership & development

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