Supply Chain Manager

Supply Chain Manager

My Client a new and rapidly expanding, state of the art on and off line builders’ merchants with a difference, are looking to hire a Supply Chain Manager with immediate effect.

This is a new and dynamic business model with the backing of one of Europe’s leading building materials supplier.

Key Tasks:

Purchasing

• Overall responsibility for materials purchasing and ensuring materials deliveries are aligned with production & customer requirements.
• Use MRP to analyse demand and generate required work orders & purchase orders
• Optimise buying volumes to deliver best prices, whilst always considering optimal stock holding and customer underwriting.
• Ensure accuracy of all purchase orders
• Tracking and expediting material deliveries
• Supplier influencing and issue resolution to ensure any internal or external road blocks to success are understood and resolved.
• Setting, monitoring and reporting supplier KPI’s to SLG
• Work together with SLG to lead material supply chain continuous improvement

Stock & Material Controls

• Ensure timely booking in of all materials onto SLG system to facilitate accurate stock levels and performance management of suppliers
• Review stock levels between production facility and SLG to highlight and resolve any discrepancies.
• Monitor safety stocks to ensure these are aligned with production / forecast demands. Proactively feedback to SLG regarding any proposed safety stock adjustments required.
• Capture material production variances, understand variances and work with SLG mitt division to put in place corrective actions
• Keep SLG systems up to date with the latest material and stock information

Key Skills and Experience

• Proven experience working at a senior level in a material planning and purchasing role within a building material stock and supply environment.
• Fully familiar with MRP systems
• PC literate in all Microsoft applications, particularly excel
• Educated to minimum of "A" level standard
• Mathematically astute with a good standard of English

Key Competency Requirements:

• Ability to demonstrate advanced influencing, relationship building and problem-solving skills.
• Confident communicator
• Organised approach to work with a high attention to detail
• Time sensitive with a strong customer service ethos.
• Demonstrate commercial awareness
• Determination to succeed.
• Capable of thriving in a fast-paced environment