Supplier Development Manager

Supplier Development Manager

Location: Stevenage

Work Policy: Hybrid working with 2 days onsite

Salary: Up to £50,000

Headline Benefits: A bonus of up to £2,500, Paid Overtime, Strong pension,25 days annual leave with the option to accrue 15 additional days flexi leave, enhanced parental leave.

We’re working with an award-winning, world-leading, technical & scientific engineering organisation, with sites across Europe, who have an exciting opportunity for a Supplier Development Manager

Their order book stretches for many years, and they have healthy profits and a range of new projects in place. They’re stable with steady controlled growth, offer dynamic working, and fantastic opportunities to grow and develop your career further.

The business are firm believers in offering all staff the best possible platform to succeed, providing support for career development as well as personal assistance. They hold numerous awards on the back of this work and have a range of employee networks and internal communities that include Parents and Carers, Gender Equality, Neurodiversity, Pride, Ethnic Diversity and many more. They really care about their staff and are passionate about what they do and why they do it.

The Supplier Development Manager role:

An opportunity has arisen due to the ramp-up of deliveries for a Supplier Performance Manager to join the procurement function in the Sub-Assemblies team. As the successful candidate, you will bring experience and knowledge to ensure effective Supplier performance, capability & Risk management.

The role provides an excellent opportunity to:

• Influence the evolution of the company’s industrial and business environment.
• Improve internal working practices to drive efficiency and effectiveness.
• Be a member of a dedicated team of supply chain managers handling supplier performance in terms of delivery and quality.
• The position will involve working and travelling nationally, potentially internationally, with fellow procurement professionals, with internal collaborators (internal customers, procurement colleagues, technical and quality authorities,) and with key suppliers.
• Well-resourced training and development programmes in Procurement and Quality knowledge.

Supplier Development Manager experience required

• Ideally a degree calibre Supply Chain professional with experience of international working in technology companies.
• Possess technical awareness across mechanical or electronic manufacturing
• Experience in Supplier Development Management/ Supplier Performance Manager in the Aerospace, Defence or Manufacturing environments is desirable
• Demonstrated ability to improve Supplier Performance (Delivery and Quality)using appropriate tools and lean methodologies.
• Handling a portfolio of suppliers on a day-to-day basis and reporting to designated project the performance and handling of supply chain risks to closure
• Assess supply chain and suppliers’ capability to meet business delivery profile for both current state vs Future state
• Proficient in creating/ validating process flows, lead time analysis, understanding capacity bottlenecks, yield, resources and sub-tier mapping activities to form an industrial view of suppliers.
• Hold excellent problem-solving skills and understanding of techniques such as DMAIC (Define, Measure, Analyse, Improve, Control) to develop and implement root cause analysis and improvement plans within Supply Chain
• Identify, Advance and mitigate potential Supply Chain Risks and put in place associated improvement and mitigation plans
• Conducting analysis and providing/delivering executive summaries
• Additionally, you may be responsible/ assist in department supply chain excellence improvements

Please note:

Rules onsite require British Citizenship. Dual nationals can apply for this position, and you will be required to undergo UK Security Clearance.

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