Planning & Delivery Leader

Rolls-Royce plc; Derby; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading aerospace and defense company is seeking a Planning & Delivery Leader in Derby. Your role involves overseeing the planning and delivery of components, liaising with stakeholders, and ensuring supplier performance. The ideal candidate should have a degree in a related field, strong Excel skills, and supply chain experience. This position allows for hybrid working with a focus on collaboration and results.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Employee support assistance

Employee discounts

Continuous learning opportunities

Qualifications

• Educated to degree level or equivalent business experience.
• Membership of a relevant professional body desirable.
• Comfortable dealing with ambiguity.

Responsibilities

• Ensure planning and on-time delivery of components.
• Be the first point of contact for delivery issues.
• Create and execute arrears recovery plans.

Skills

Educated to degree level in a numerate or business discipline

Proficient user of Microsoft Office applications

Understanding of load and capacity planning

Data analysis and decision-making skills

Ability to communicate with stakeholders

Education

Degree in numerate or business discipline

Membership of a relevant professional body (e.g., APICS CPIM)

Tools

Microsoft Excel

ERP system knowledge (preferably SAP)

Job description

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Job Description

Planning & Delivery Leader

Full-time

Derby/Hybrid – 3 days on-site

What you will be doing

As a Planning & Delivery Leader, you will be responsible for ensuring the planning and on time delivery of a defined portfolio of components across the full product lifecycle.

Responsibilities

In this role, you will:

• Be the first point of contact with regards to delivery for the external supply chain and internal stakeholders.
• Perform regular and accurate management of the demand schedule to ensure correct flow down to suppliers and delivery commitments/forecasts to Rolls-Royce.
• Identify and mitigate risks associated with supplier delivery.
• Lead Order Book Reviews, confirming that suppliers have the required capacity, material and production schedule to support customer requirements.
• Regularly visit suppliers to understand current status to agreed plans and identify where risks could occur.
• Work with other functions to ensure items which could impact on a supplier’s ability to deliver are resolved, including but not limited to invoice clearance, commercial disputes, technical/quality queries or insufficient purchase order coverage.
• Create and execute (forecast) arrears recovery plans for parts/suppliers who are behind plan, utilising an appropriate suite of planning and control tools.

Why Rolls-Royce?

Work with us and we’ll welcome you into a culture of caring and belonging where you can be yourself. We will listen first, embrace feedback and act with integrity. We will invest in your continuous learning and development, and make sure you have access to a wide breadth and depth of opportunities to grow your career and make a difference.

We offer excellent development, a competitive salary and exceptional benefits. These include bonus, employee support assistance and employee discounts.

Hybrid working is a way in which our people can balance their time between the office, home or another remote location. It’s a locally managed and flexed informal discretionary arrangement. As a minimum we’re all expected to attend the workplace for collaboration and other specific reasons, frequency will depend on business needs, nature of role, what works for the team and for the individual. Discover more on our GBS Service Portal about hybrid working.

Who we’re looking for

Being a part of Rolls-Royce, you’ll know we put safety first, do the right thing, keep it simple and make a difference. These principles form our behaviours. They are an essential component of our assessment process and are fundamental qualities that we seek for all roles and for this role we are looking for someone is/has:

• Educated to degree level in a numerate or business discipline or will have equivalent business experience within planning, manufacturing or supply chain.
• Membership of a relevant professional body or institute would be desirable e.g., APICS CPIM.
• A proficient user of Microsoft Office applications (Excel is essential) with working knowledge of an ERP system, preferably SAP MRP, Production Planning & Material Management.
• An understanding of load and capacity planning.
• Data analysis and decision-making skills, comfortable dealing with ambiguity.
• The ability to communicate with all parts of the business including internal and external stakeholders.

Join us & help Rolls-Royce to become a high-performing, competitive, resilient business.

Please be aware that the priority will be given to employees identified as being at high risk.

The professional level and salary of the position will be dependent on the skills and experience of the successful candidate but is anticipated to be Staff Grade 7-10.

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.

We are an equal opportunities employer. We’re committed to developing a diverse workforce and an inclusive working environment. We believe that people from different backgrounds and cultures give us different perspectives. And the more perspectives we have, the more successful we’ll be. By building a culture of respect and appreciation, we give everyone who works here the opportunity to realise their full potential.

Learn more about our Global Inclusion Strategy

Grade: SNBG 7 – 10

Closing Date: 6th August 2025

For further information please contact: Oliver Coghill

Job Category

Supply Chain Planning & Control

Posting Date

29 Jul 2025; 00:07

Posting End Date

06 Aug 2025

About Us

Rolls-Royce pioneers cutting-edge technologies that deliver the cleanest, safest and most competitive solutions to our planet’s vital power needs.