Head of Supply Chain
- Bristol Area
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Contribution to development of and implementation of Supply Chain Strategy
- Functional management of supply chain team
- Development of policies and refinement of processes for:
- Continuous improvement.
- Create environment for collaboration with other departments, such as programmes, engineering and quality.
- Negotiate prices and terms with key suppliers.
- Supplier relationship management.
- Planning and forecasting, market awareness.
- Identification and qualification of key or critical suppliers, second sources, strategic partners and monitoring of supplier risk including financial robustness.
- Support to bids and partnering strategies and product development to assess and provide cost effective supply chain solutions.
- Implement and monitor systems to provide traceability and parts tracking.
- Monitoring of long lead items.
- Obsolescence monitoring and reporting.
- Management of protectively marked and export controlled material.
- Management of cryptographic devices.
- Ownership of management processes for customer furnished items of data, equipment and tools.
- Strategy for applying environmental regulations such as REACH, COSHH, WEEE and safety including storage and handling.
- Social value, net zero and ethical trade practices (modern slavery, conflict minerals, embargoed material/countries)
- Rejection of items and disposals/repairs in line with security guidance and environmental requirements.
- Management of customer returns.
- Reporting and record keeping in line with contractual obligations and standards compliance.
- Shipping and logistics planning.
- Anticipated 8+ years relevant experience managing suppliers for complex electronic equipment.
- Good communications and teamwork.
- Self starter with drive and energy to solve problems and establish new systems.
- Organised and structured approach.
- Knowledge and experience of UK MOD or similar customer processes for supplier management and handling government furnished items.
- Implementing Supply Chain strategy, policy and processes.
- Comfortable working out new process flows – able to develop, review and continuously improve.
- Running competitions and other supplier selection approaches.
- Record keeping and reporting.
- Shipping and logistics planning.
- Environmental and product safety regulations.
- Social value initiatives and flowdowns.
- Knowledge of best practice supply chain management processes, procurement and warehousing solutions
- Manufacturing 4.0
- Experience with managing protectively marked materials.
- Knowledge of UK/US export/import regulations.
- KPI tracking.
- Supply Chain Risk management and resilience.
- Obsolescence management.
- ERP/MRP workflows.
- Procurement portals.
- JOSCAR.
- CIPS qualification (or similar specialist qualification required)
- Degree preferred
- BTEC/HND Business/Operations/IT plus experience
- Evidence of additional training in Production Management, Procurement, Logistics, Inventory Management