Material Controller & Supply Planner

McLaren Automotive Ltd; Woking; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday

Enhanced pension

Discretionary bonus

Private medical insurance

Life assurance

Sabbatical option

Flexible benefits

Parental leave

Wellbeing initiatives

Job summary

McLaren Automotive Ltd. is seeking a supplier-focused Senior Material Planner & Control to ensure timely inbound material delivery and maintain budgeted inventory.

You will create achievable delivery schedules for series and development programs, while developing supplier relationships and mitigating supply risks. You will use MRP (SAP) to balance demand and supply, align with production and development needs, and manage inventory within targeted limits.

Qualifications

• Experience with MRP/SAP in automotive supply chain.
• Strong stakeholder engagement skills.
• Ability to manage multiple suppliers and priorities.
• Resilience under pressure and meeting deadlines.
• Excellent verbal and written communication.

Responsibilities

• Accountable for supplier logistics quality to ensure inbound materials flow.
• Use SAP to balance demand and supply and create delivery plans.
• Identify and mitigate supply risks with suppliers.
• Represent supply chain risks at internal reviews.
• Manage MRP parameters to stabilize inventory and minimize obsolescence.
• Be the point of contact for assigned suppliers and material availability.
• Drive supplier onboarding and packaging requirements.
• Pursue continuous improvement with suppliers and internal processes.
• Monitor KPIs to support business improvement.
• Support engineering with new parts ramp-up and stock run-out planning.
• Model scenarios to optimize demand-supply impacts with stakeholders.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Automotive supply chain

MRP/SAP

Relationship building

Organizational skills

Excel

Communication skills

Time management

Attention to detail

Problem solving

Tools

SAP

MRP systems

Job description

What to Expect

Reporting to the Senior Material Planner & Control, this supplier facing role is key in ensuring materials arrive from McLaren’s supply base on time and in full, with supporting documentation.

This role is responsible for the creation and maintenance of achievable delivery schedules that support the requirements of our series and development programs whilst ensuring inventory levels remain within budgeted targets.

This role will be key to developing our supplier relationships and capability to support the ever-increasing logistics challenge.

What You'll Do

Accountable for all aspects of supplier logistics quality thereby ensuring the efficient and effective inbound flow of material to the McLaren Production Centre.

Manage appropriate processes with the suppliers for the early identification, communication and mitigation of supply risk.

Able to represent supply chain risks and opportunities at internal management reviews.

To use MRP (SAP) to balance demand and supply, creating a delivery plan that satisfies the combined requirements of production, development, and any other sources, keeping inventory within approved limits. Reduce obsolescence and inventory holding to company targets.

To be the point of contact for your assigned suppliers and the related material availability concerns within the organisation.

Work with supplier contacts to ensure an effective, mutually beneficial, working relationship.

Work with on boarding suppliers, including supply chain loop and packaging requirement calculations.

To adopt an approach of continuous improvement for both internal processes and supplier logistics quality with your suppliers.

To manage your supply base against defined KPIs to support business improvement.

To support Engineering in the effective implementation of new parts, ensuring MRP demand is accurate and coordinating the appropriate run out and ramp up of stock to ensure minimum financial impact due to part obsolescence.

To conduct scenario modelling to assess the impact of changes to demand and supply and to work with stakeholders to agree and implement a plan which will obtain optimal results.

Own and manage MRP parameter data to deliver the correct inventory levels and stability to McLaren’s Operations.

To manage schedules against KPIs measuring all factors which affect materials and production planning.

What You'll Bring

• Confident in dealing with stakeholders, both internally and externally, in ensuring the requirements of the department and wider business are met.
• Understanding of Automotive OEM supply chains and supplier manufacturing processes.
• Highly developed relationship building skills.
• Structured and organised approach to the management of work.
• Experience of working with MRP and or SAP is desirable personal Attributes.
• Delivery focused - with demonstrable track record of on-time delivery.
• Ability to manage and prioritise tasks and time efficiently.
• Excellent organisational skills.
• Team player.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Able to build good relationships at all levels, internally and externally.
• Resilient, able to work under pressure and to tight deadlines.
• Ambitious and self-reliant. Intrinsically self‑motivated.
• Unquestionable personal and professional integrity.
• Strong excel and data interpretation skills.
• Comprehensive grasp of planning principles and objectives.

What We'll Do for You

• Structured career development framework
• 25 days’ holiday, plus bank holiday. Annual buy & sell up to five days
• Enhanced company pension scheme
• Discretionary annual bonus award
• Private medical insurance and health cash plan
• Life assurance benefit
• Ability to apply for a sabbatical of up to one year after only two years’ service
• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
• Generous parental leave policies
• A range of wellbeing initiatives, such as employee assistance programme and free financial & mortgage advice

Who Are We?

No restraints. No limitations. We don’t simply push boundaries. We completely rethink them. McLaren Automotive exists to create breath‑taking performance road cars.

It takes a community to do what we do. A diverse group of people with many areas of expertise, united by their passion to deliver visionary products and set new benchmarks.

McLaren Automotive commits to equal opportunity for all. Diversity, Equality and Inclusion is at the heart of our impact, it drives our innovation and enables us to truly create something special. Join us on our journey.