Aftermarket Engine Supply Planning Manager

Rolls-royce; Scunthorpe; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading aerospace company is seeking an Aftermarket Engine Supply Planning Manager to join their Operations team. The successful candidate will facilitate planning activities, collaborate with internal departments, and ensure operational excellence. Critical skills include experience in Planning & Control management, strong analytical abilities, and a collaborative approach to deliver results. This permanent role offers a competitive salary, flexible working, and comprehensive benefits package, emphasizing the value of individuality and diverse perspectives.

Benefits

Competitive salary and bonus

Employee support assistance

Flexible working arrangements

Defined contribution pension scheme

27 annual leave days plus holidays

Qualifications

• Experience in a Planning & Control management role.
• Ability to deliver results through teamwork.
• Strong analytical skills to diagnose and propose actions.
• Capability to work in operational environments.
• Highly numerate with concise reporting skills.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate Sales, Inventory, and Operational Planning activities.
• Collaborate with internal demand partners on demand signals.
• Confirm capacity planning assumptions.
• Understand demand risks and forecast mitigation levels.
• Evaluate demand variations for decision-making.
• Lead long-term supply forecasts for Aftermarket Operations.
• Support inventory budgeting and management.

Skills

Planning & Control management

Collaborative approach

Analytical skills

Operational excellence

Numerical proficiency

Performance influencing

Job description

We have an exciting opportunity for an Aftermarket Engine Supply Planning Manager to join our Aftermarket Operations team in Derby. With an expanding Overhaul Base Network and a flying fleet that requires our continued support, we are growing our Planning & Control (P&C) team in Aftermarket Operations within Civil Aerospace. Investing in our people is critical to our future success in Aftermarket P&C. We are responsible for managing the end‑to‑end supply and demand processes across our global Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul Network and ensuring that our engines return back to our customers on‑time, as efficiently as possible. As our customer demand continues to increase, it’s an exciting time to join a growing, high‑performing team, to enable Civil Aerospace Aftermarket Operations to deliver.

Responsibilities

• Facilitating the aggregation of Sales, Inventory and Operational Planning activity for Aftermarket Operations, including the integration of demand for our value stream
• Collaborating closely with our internal demand partners to ensure clarity of demand signal
• Confirming capacity planning assumptions, including constraints, growth and improvement plans
• Ensuring demand risks are understood and forecasting the levels of activity required as mitigation
• Evaluating the impact of demand variation within the planning horizon to enable structured and robust decision making
• Leading the creation and maintenance of Aftermarket Operations' long‑term supply forecasts
• Supporting the inventory budgeting and management activity

Qualifications

• Experience in a Planning & Control management or multiple deep specialist P&C roles
• A collaborative approach that can successfully pull together multi‑functional teams across a large organisation and deliver results
• An analytical approach that can quickly diagnose issues and propose appropriate recovery actions
• Ability to work in an operational environment and deliver operational excellence
• Be highly numerate, with the ability to distil data to provide concise management information and reporting
• Experience of delivering performance through influencing

Why join Rolls‑Royce?

At Rolls‑Royce we are proud to be a business that has truly helped to shape the modern world and are committed to always being a force for progress; powering, protecting and connecting people everywhere. By joining Rolls‑Royce, you'll have the opportunity to work on world‑class solutions, supported by a culture that believes individuality is our greatest strength, and that all perspectives, experiences and backgrounds help us innovate and enable our high‑performance culture.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and bonus
• Employee support assistance and employee discounts
• Flexible working arrangements and support for hybrid working where possible
• Permanent role from day one with defined contribution pension scheme
• 27 personal annual leave days plus statutory bank holidays and life assurance

We are committed to a respectful, inclusive, and non‑discriminatory workplace where individuality is valued, diverse perspectives fuel innovation, and everyone can thrive.