Supply Chain Lead

Location

Merthyr Tydfil, Wales | United Kingdom

Job description

We are currently recruiting for a Supply Chain Lead to cover 9 to 12 months of Maternity Leave.

This is a full time position working 40 hours a week Monday to Friday with some flexibility to cover weekends required.

Salary £34,000 to £36,500 per annum depending on experience.

Requirements

Key Responsibilities:

1. Team Leadership

• a. Team Rostering

• b. Time Mgmt. and on call management

2. Forecasting

• a. Updating Cap plan with Customer updates, and sharing swings with stakeholders, linking in to point 5

• b. Coordinating, planning and micromanaging promo activity with all departments

3. Production Planning - Downstream

• a. Lead the Supply Chain Coordinators in Daily Production Scheduling

• b. Cost effective efficient daily plan to production,

i. Driving Planning improvements

ii. Flagging to Service Depts. of it impacting efficiency or service to the customer.

• c. Inventory Optimisation and understanding of PPV impacts

4. Relationship mgmt. with peer departments; Engineering, Technical, NPD, Production, collaborative CI approach

• a. Joint collaborative projects

• b. Allocation of time needed for maintenance, samples, training etc

• c. Be available for pre-pros to expand on knowledge base

5. Material Mgmt.

• a. Weekly requirements into Central Business Unit – Dashboard lead

i. Managing divergences and recovery

b. On Site Mgmt.

i. External site call offs

ii. Issuing/returns to runs

iii. IP – Most cost-effective options flagged

iv. Finished goods risk managed with customer to strive for zero waste

6. Post-Production Routines and KPI reporting

• a. Daily and weekly standard KPIs

• b. Flag rotation/missing stock/freezer variances

• c. Coordinating with Logistics providers if there are issues downstream, and subsequently the customer informed too

7. Customer Interface

• a. Supply Chain to Supply Chain’ dialogue with customer; joined up and transparent approach

• b. Stock overview, projections, derogations

• c. Enhanced comms at key points

• d. Clear communication of recovery plans or stock surplus when needed

• e. Joined up OTIF and MOQ analysis

8. Master Data Mgmt.

• a. Maintaining run rates agrees with Commercial SCM & Ops Management

• b. Supplier Master Data eg, MOQ, UOM, lead time – Flagging where differs from RACI

Core KPIs

· Safety – All H&S metrics

· Line Efficiency – As per efficiency metrics

· Waste minimisation

· Customer Service Levels

· Continuous Improvement Initiatives

  Skills/ Experience

· Product and industry knowledge

· Strong oral and written communication skills

· Computer and excel skills

· Ability to deliver targets and department objectives

· KPI/ Target driven

  Competencies

• People Management
• Creating Positive Relationships
• Service Driven
• Strategic Thinking
• Influencing

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Salary

£34k - £36.5k per annum