Supply Chain Manager

Location: Cheltenham

Salary: £45k - £50k plus company car and excellent benefits

A Medical Devices Manufacturing company who manufactures plastic injection moulded products are now looking for a Supply Chain Manager to join their team.

Supply Chain Manager – Overview

• Responsibility for effective leadership and management of procurement, purchasing, inventory control and logistics activity for the in order to meet the requirements of our customer.
• Deliver Supply Chain Excellence. Driving strategic behavior and mindset from current reactive/ tactical state.
• Lead Supplier Relationship Management, and contract negotiations for the business.
• Develop Strategic Sourcing to ensure long-term sustainability of Supply Chain.

Supply Chain Manager – Responsibility

• Leadership of department personnel and processes.
• Support the business objectives by driving spend/supply assessments, consolidation strategy,
• sourcing selection, financial and make versus buy analyses.
• Acting as a mentor / coach, for department personnel in order to develop skills, structures, resources, and processes to execute the department’s objectives.
• Responsibility for departmental capital and expense budgets.
• Work with the Head of Operations to develop short, medium, and long-term departmental goals and objectives.
• Lead continuous improvement initiatives for the department to improve process yield, product design, throughput, cost, and safety.
• Support NC/CAPA process for the department.
• Develop appropriate KPIs / metrics, and propose actions plans.
• Supports Project Management in the delivery of projects on time, and on cost.
• Any other duties considered commensurate with this level of post.
• Develop Supply Chain Strategy in-line with Digital Supply Chain / Industry 4.0.
• Leads RFX process for the business.
• Manages, and mitigates Supply Chain risks for the company
• Leads purchasing team to place purchase orders and deliveries to optimise inventories in support of production schedules.
• Leads team for all inbound and outbound logistics activity
• Work with internal and external stakeholders to maintain adequate inventory levels to minimise shortages in order to optimise cleanroom operations at the company
• To manage inventory levels efficiently and cost effectively, whilst continuously seeking to improve in the level of working capital deployed in stock.
• Managing product supply risk by ensuring stock policies are set and regularly reviewed.
• Proactively communicates with stakeholders regarding parts/components supply.
• New Product Introduction: Perform supplier capability reviews, coordinate tender / RFX process, and ensure that suppliers meet key deliverables.
• Supplier Relationship Management (SRM):
• Define Supplier Relationship Management framework including contract management for nominated strategic partners.
• Implementation and leadership of the Supplier Evaluation and Development framework establishing goals and objectives for our vendors in line with those at the company.
• In partnership with our suppliers, identify and initiate cost improvement projects. Manage and coordinate the implementation of improvement/cost saving programs with strategic vendors.
• Lead contract renewal negotiations and annual contract price negotiations based on agreed SRM framework and responsibilities.
• Develop strong relationships with key suppliers as well as other disciplines within the businesses.
• Represents the ‘voice of the supplier’ for the company.

Supply Chain Manager - job requirements:

The ideal candidate must come from the manufacturing industry as a Supply Chain Manager. You will also have the following skills, qualifications and experience:

• Hold a Degree in Supply chain or Logistics or hold a CIPS / CILT Qualification
• Ideally come from the plastic injection moulding industry or Medical Devices, Pharma, Automotive or Aerospace Industry
• Managed a small Supply Chain Team

For more information please call Paul Gorton on 0161 976 3540.

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