Planning & Delivery Lead — OTIF & Supplier Excellence

Rolls-Royce Corporation; East Midlands; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Rolls-Royce in Derby is seeking a Planning and Delivery Leader to ensure on-time delivery of purchased parts across the full product lifecycle. You will lead planning activities within the Procurement team, coordinate with suppliers and internal stakeholders, and drive adherence to committed plans while addressing risks to delivery and inventory.

The role involves regular supplier visits, managing executive schedules, leading orderbook reviews, and implementing recovery plans to close gaps.

Responsibilities

• Ensuring On Time Delivery of Purchased Parts
• Identify Risks to Supplier Delivery: Regular and accurate management of the Executive System schedule to ensure correct demand flowdown to suppliers and delivery commitments/forecasts to Rolls-Royce Robust monitoring and execution of system exception messages and supplier feedback on production status Leading Orderbook Reviews to the required standard confirming that suppliers have the required capacity, material and production schedule to support customer requirements Use planning and control tools and internal customer feedback to anticipate and plan for gaps in delivery Regularly visit suppliers to understand their working practices, production facilities/capabilities and current status to agreed plans and identify where risks could occur Work with other functions to ensure items which could impact on a suppliers ability or willingness to deliver are resolved, including but not limited to invoice clearance, commercial disputes, technical/quality queries or insufficient purchase orde
• Resolve or Mitigate Delivery Gaps to Customer Requirements: The robust monitoring and execution of system exception messages and supplier feedback on production status Ensure root cause is understood and Problem Follow Up completed through the appropriate problem resolution tools Create and execute (forecast) arrears recovery plans for parts/suppliers who are behind plan, utilising an appropriate suite of planning and control tools Implement appropriate governance and monitoring of supplier recovery plans, ensuring they remain on track
• Improve Supplier Performance: Support supplier business and scorecard reviews Conduct Delivery improvement reviews which confirm the supplier has appropriate actions in place to fix historical causes of Delivery failure using KPIs such as OTIF, Arrears, WIP, Leadtime, Yield, buffer stock and on-time launch Assess and improve supply Planning and Control capability using the Supplier Planning Assessment (SPA) Identify and develop solutions to resolve long term risks to on time delivery, ensuring chronic performance issues are appropriately mitigated - including engaging with other functions as needed
• Our vision is to ensure that the excellence and ingenuity that shaped our history continues into our future. Our multi-year transformation programme aims to turn Rolls-Royce into a high-performing, competitive, resilient and growing company. Join us, and it can be your future vision too.
• Rolls-Royce are committed to being a respectful, inclusive, and non-discriminatory workplace where individuality is valued, diverse perspectives fuel innovation, and everyone can thrive.
• Please be aware that the priority will be given to employees identified as being at high risk.
• This job is advertised at the grades shown, and this is the desired operating level for this role. We encourage applications from candidates with relevant experience from any grade. It is advised that you inform your current manager of your application for this role.
• Grade: 7 -10
• Closing Date: 27th November 2026
• Rolls-Royce pioneers cutting-edge technologies that deliver the cleanest, safest and most competitive solutions to our planet’s vital power needs.

Job description

Rolls-Royce in Derby is seeking a Planning and Delivery Leader to ensure on-time delivery of purchased parts across the full product lifecycle. You will lead planning activities within the Procurement team, coordinate with suppliers and internal stakeholders, and drive adherence to committed plans while addressing risks to delivery and inventory.

The role involves regular supplier visits, managing executive schedules, leading orderbook reviews, and implementing recovery plans to close gaps.