Senior Material Planning & Controller

McLaren Automotive Ltd; Woking; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday

Enhanced pension scheme

Discretionary annual bonus

Private medical insurance

Life assurance

Sabbatical after two years

Wellbeing initiatives

Parental leave policies

Job summary

McLaren Automotive Ltd in the United Kingdom seeks a Senior Material Control specialist to lead planning and scheduling for our programmes. You will own MRP data, drive process improvements and partner with purchasing, planning and manufacturing to ensure on-time delivery and balanced inventory.

You will manage supplier communications, model demand/supply scenarios and implement lean processes to support growth and programme complexity while maintaining budgeted targets.

Qualifications

• Experience managing senior stakeholders and cross-functional governance.
• Proven ability to lead teams and deliver on-time performance.
• Strong analytics, with ability to present business cases and strategies.
• Familiarity with SAP, material planning and manufacturing workflows.

Responsibilities

• Drive end-to-end delivery schedules and lifecycle planning for programmes.
• Own and optimize MRP data to balance demand and supply.
• Lead implementation of new processes and KPI reporting.
• Support supplier schedules, capacity constraints and changes.
• Collaborate with purchasing, planning, and manufacturing to reduce obsolescence.
• Model scenarios to assess demand/supply impacts and risks.

Skills

Senior stakeholder management

Team management

Governance

Operating metrics

Strategic presentation

Excel data interpretation

Tools

SAP

Job description

What to Expect

Reporting to the Material Control & Planning Manager this presents an exciting opportunity for the right candidate who wants to drive significant impact on the way logistics is considered within McLaren Automotive, and is dedicated to the future & growth of the business. 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. The business is increasing the number of programmes and annual volumes meaning the complexity of our logistics activities are also significantly increasing. This role is pivotal in ensuring our schedules and supply information is stable and accurate. A Material Control senior role is not recognition of long service, it reflects a higher level of technical skill and exists to provide support to the Manager affording them time to focus on more strategic activities. The attributes of a senior role mean that the candidate is expected to work under their own initiative leading their team, within a high-pressured environment and in line with the task landscape ensuring successful on-time delivery achievement.

What You’ll Do

• Drive any business case to implement new processes.
• Total ownership and implementation with associated metric reporting.
• Support and drive solutions and cost down within daily operational tasks
• Support the cross-company SAP system and deploy developments as required.
• Enhance current business plans supporting industry leading KPIs.
• Drive continual improvement in the way the team operates across the business to incorporate improved lean practices
• To be the point of contact for supplier schedules, material engineering changes and booking in queries. Proactively set up meeting with purchasing and material control to present plans, engineering changes and capacity constraints.
• To use MRP 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 responsible for pro-actively identifying, escalating, and addressing risks to production requirements (capacity constraints/shutdowns etc.), supplier lead times, schedule stability, planned inventory levels and warehousing capacities.
• 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 schedule adherence data (schedule gaps and on-time issuing of schedule) against KPI target measuring all factors which affect materials and production planning.
• If appropriate, to plan and provide logistical support for new model projects / option introductions.

What You’ll Bring

• Previous experience of senior stakeholder management.
• Team management and coaching experience.
• Strong and consistent approach to driving governance and processes.
• Familiarity with operating metrics to drive performance.
• Confident in presenting strategies with required analysis and business case.
• Ability drive results whilst working across a wide range of stakeholders including purchasing, material planning and manufacturing.
• SAP experience
• Confident in dealing with stakeholders, holding and leading meetings, ensuring the requirements of the department and wider business are met.
• Preferable understanding of Automotive OEM supply chains and supplier manufacturing processes.
• Strong Excel and data interpretation skills.
• Comprehensive grasp of planning principles and objectives.
• Proven ability to make sound and logical decisions.
• Structured and organised approach to the management of work

Personal Attributes

• Operate tactically and strategically when required
• Delivery focused - with demonstrable track record of on-time delivery.
• Ability to manage and prioritise tasks and time efficiently.
• Excellent organisational skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Resilient, able to work under pressure and to tight deadlines.
• Unquestionable personal and professional integrity.

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.