Senior Supply Chain Manager

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Senior Supply Chain Manager
Location: Ruskington
Hours: Full-time, Office-based (No hybrid or homeworking)
Purpose
To ensure cost effective planning, maximising customer service, minimising waste and acting as a communication hub between the Operations teams, Commercial, Customer and Despatch. Management of material flow to ensure effective supply through the business and to customer and 3rd party logistics operators. Work as part of Senior leadership team to develop site and business strategy. Identify and deliver Continuous Improvement opportunities.
Key Responsibilities\Measures of Success
Act as Head of Department and part of Site Leadership Team
Act as the deputy for other Senior managers when appropriate
Challenge factory and commercial on their performance particularly where business cost is sub optimal
Manage, coach and develop the Supply chain team, ensuring development plans are in place
Act as a communication point between Commercial, Operations and Customer
Promote collaborative planning with commercial and customer
KPI monitoring and reporting on our own and site performance, including conformance to plan, internal and external customer service, finished goods waste, product sent outside of life constraints and changes to plan
Ensure we have enough capacity to meet demand
Deliver tailored briefs to the supply chain team
Communicate any issues on service or supply issues to commercial contacts, customers and key factory personnel
Ensure our planning and storage policies are cost effective and minimise waste
Line management forward planning, planning and material flow
Coordination and troubleshooting of 3rd party logistics and warehousing
Resolution and rectification of supply chain issues
Assist the procurement team with the development of the supplier base to make it more agile and match the PULL system.
Look for Continuous Improvement opportunities both within the functional area and beyond
Actively reduce the cost base of production through the plan
Ensuring the planning team provide timely and accurate information with which to make short and long term decisions
Ensure effective labour planning
Key Deliverables
Customer Service
Out of life waste
Departmental accidents
Logistics costs
Optimize the use of labor
Skills & Knowledge
Desirable
Team Working:
Able to build relationships with key members of personnel, factory staff, commercial, customers and our purchasing team
Able to communicate and influence effectively
Able to chair/faciliate meetings and effectively apportion actions
Literacy & Numerical Skills:
Able to complile and interpret and manipulate complex data and present back in an easily understandable format
Able to compile written information in the appropriate format
IT Skills:
Able to use and understand Management Operrating Systems fro key data retrieval
Able to use and understand in hourse IT based systems and SAP
Able to use excel to an advanced level
Word and PowerPoint to intermediate level
Use of key retailers' internet-based data systems
Processes and Products
Be an expert in own area including PULL systems and planning tools
Understand individual customer requirements and customer supply chains
Ability to work in an organised and methodical way
Knowledge of warehousing storage systems
Continuous Improvement
Use and develop lean PULL supply methods to enhance business performance, reduce waste and maximise service
Take part in and lead projects as and when required
Work with procurement to establish a leaner and more agile upstream supply chain
Strive for ways to improve accuracy and accessibility of data in the form of forecasts, capacity plans and promotional information
Ensuring planning processes are constantly reviewed and refined to make as value adding as possible
Look for business wide improvement opportunities
Support the development of Holistech
Quality Methods and Understanding
Know, understand and apply QA procedures, standards, legal requirements and customer specifications
Health and Safety Knowledge
Promote safety practices
Ensure you understand safe systems of work and risk assessment application
Ensure good working warehousing practices
Hygiene
Know, understand and apply both legal and company requirements
People/Performance Management
Able to coach others through processes or non-conformances
Performance management of commercial, customer and factory team through KPI generation
Coaching, development and performance management of Supply chain team
Financial Understanding
Understand the impact of the plan against the bottom-line profit
Understand impact of capacity balancing
Able to calculate cost benefit of projects and Capex
Problem Solving and Decision Making
React to issues as they occur and provide effective solutions
Able to follow problems through to completion and reflect on process in order to share learning
Able to make balanced decisions based on the benefits of options available to include cost impact
Able to act on decisions with the required amount of urgency

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Location:
Sleaford
Salary:
not provided
Job Type:
FullTime
Category:
Management;Logistics

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