Planning & Delivery Leader - Procurement

Rolls-Royce; Bristol; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A global engineering leader seeks a Planning and Delivery Leader in Bristol, offering hybrid work. The role includes managing supplier relationships, ensuring compliance with planning systems, and driving adherence to deliverables. Candidates should have relevant degrees or considerable experience in logistics and supply chain. Exceptional benefits and a diverse work environment are provided.

Benefits

Bonus

Employee support assistance

Employee discounts

Qualifications

• 3+ years of work experience in logistics, supply chain planning, purchasing or manufacturing.
• Ability to identify and prioritize delivery issues.
• Proven record of supplier management.

Responsibilities

• Ensure planning compliance across the component lifecycle.
• Identify mitigation actions for supply chain risks.
• Drive supplier adherence to delivery plans.

Skills

Logistics management

Supply chain planning

Problem-solving

Collaboration

Education

Associate's degree with 3+ years of experience

Bachelor's degree with 1+ years of experience

Master's degree with 0+ years of experience

Tools

SAP

Job description

Job Description

Planning and Delivery Leader – Procurement

Full time

Bristol/Hybrid

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our Procurement team in Bristol.

You will be responsible for ensuring the planning and on time delivery of a defined portfolio of parts across the full product lifecycle - including but not limited to NPI, production, transfers, reactivations and supply chain design.

You will be the first point of contact with regards to delivery for the externalsupply chain and internal stakeholders, ensuring strong relationship management.

You’ll be responsible for driving adherence to the commitment accepted plan with suppliers, by proactively identifying and working with the relevant stakeholders in addressing and resolving risks which would impact delivery and inventory performance. To be ERP process and system compliant, ensuring SAP data integrity.

Why Rolls-Royce?

Rolls-Royce is one of the most enduring and iconic brands in the world and has been at the forefront of innovation for over a century. We design, build and service systems that provide critical power to customers where safety and reliability are paramount.

We are proud to be a force for progress, powering, protecting, and connecting people everywhere.

We want to ensure that the excellence and ingenuity that has shaped our history continues into our future, and we need people like you to come and join us on this journey.

We’ll provide an environment of caring and belonging where you can be yourself. An inclusive, innovative culture that invests in you, gives you access to an incredible breadth and depth of opportunities where you can grow your career and make a difference.

What we offer

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

Your needs are as unique as you are. 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, on average three days per week.

What you will be doing

As a Planning and Delivery Leader, you’ll be responsible for driving adherence to the commitment accepted plan with suppliers, by proactively identifying and working with the relevant stakeholders in addressing and resolving risks which would impact delivery and inventory performance. To be ERP process and system compliant, ensuring SAP data integrity.

Responsibilities

• Ensure the Suppliers launch, and manufacture of all parts is executed in line with the agreed plan across the component lifecycle. Ensuring that all planning systems used to control production planning are managed and maintained daily including inbound delivery commitments as well as the resolution of Stock in Transit, GRIP & NCR Stock.
• Where performance diverges from the plan, identify and prioritise delivery issues whilst assisting the mitigation and resolution. Ensure awareness to leadership of the delivery issues mitigations and recovery plans. Ensure escalation of the delivery issues, mitigating actions and recovery plans. This will be achieved using standard tools, processes and metrics.
• Supplier Management - Regular reviews and communication (Order Book Reviews) on delivery plans, measurement of delivery adherence and the escalation of issues when required. The early identification and impact of possible shortages and excess affecting the business plan, taking the necessary actions to ensure appropriate escalation and ensuring the mitigating actions are completed.
• 4 Weekly Planning - Ensure suppliers continuously realign the plan with credible data and in alignment with customer requirements, using the standard system interfaces. Support ERP compliance review process. Ensuring all front-end actions are executed in a timely manner in line with the RRPS and ZEIAW (Excess Inventory Authorisation).
• Support buyers to resolve unverified invoice queries relating to schedule changes and goods receipt. Support Buyers when requested with data on delivery failures to enable them to make commercial claims with Suppliers if required.
• Where required, liaise with factory logistics teams to ensure timely receipt and despatch of parts. Support all critical delivery reviews through the supply of updated plans and commitments as agreed with the team.

Who we’re looking for

Being a part of Rolls‑Royce, you’ll know we embrace agility, are bold, pursue collaboration and seek simplicity in everything we do. These principles form our values and behaviours and are an essential component of our assessment process and are fundamental qualities that we seek for all roles.

• Associate’s degree with 3+ years of work experience in logistics, supply chain planning, purchasing or manufacturing OR;
• Bachelor’s degree with 1+ years of work experience in logistics, supply chain planning, purchasing or manufacturing OR Master's degree with 0+ years of work experience in logistics, supply chain planning, purchasing or manufacturing OR JD/PhD with 0+ years of work experience in logistics, supply chain planning, purchasing or manufacturing.
• In lieu of degree 5+ years of work experience in logistics, supply chain planning, purchasing or manufacturing.

Preferred Requirements

• Systems, Applications and Products (SAP) experience.
• Experience with project management.
• Experience collaborating with various departments.

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 which are crucial to innovation and problem solving. We believe the more diverse perspectives we have, the more successful we’ll be. By building a culture of caring and belonging, we give everyone who works here the opportunity to realise their full potential.

We welcome applications from people with a refugee background.

You can learn more about our global Inclusion strategy at Our people | Rolls-Royce

Closing Date: 19th November 2025

Job Category Supply Chain Planning & Control

Posting Date 05 Nov 2025; 00:11

Posting End Date 19 Nov 2025