Senior Supply Chain Manager

Pilgrims Europe; Sleaford; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A food manufacturing company in Ruskington is looking for an experienced Senior Supply Chain Manager. The successful candidate will ensure cost-effective planning while maximizing customer service and minimizing waste. Key responsibilities include managing the supply chain team, fostering collaboration with commercial partners, and driving continuous improvement initiatives. Strong leadership and IT skills, particularly in SAP and Excel, are essential for this role. Join us to enhance our operations and make a significant impact in our supply chain management.

Qualifications

• Ability to build relationships with key members of personnel.
• Able to interpret complex data and present in an understandable format.
• Expert in PULL systems and planning tools.

Responsibilities

• Ensure cost-effective planning and customer service.
• Manage, coach, and develop the supply chain team.
• Promote collaborative planning with commercial and customers.

Skills

Team Working

Literacy & Numerical Skills

IT Skills

Knowledge of warehousing storage systems

Continuous Improvement

Problem Solving and Decision Making

Tools

SAP

Excel

Management Operating Systems

Job description

Senior Supply Chain Manager

Location : Ruskington

Hours : Full-time, Office-based (No hybrid or homeworking)

Purpose

To ensure cost effective planning, maximising customer service, minimising waste and acting as a communication hub between the Operations teams, Commercial, Customer and Despatch. Management of material flow to ensure effective supply through the business and to customer and 3rd party logistics operators. Work as part of Senior leadership team to develop site and business strategy. Identify and deliver Continuous Improvement opportunities.

Key Responsibilities & Measures of Success

• Act as Head of Department and part of Site Leadership Team
• Act as the deputy for other Senior managers when appropriate
• Challenge factory and commercial on their performance particularly where business cost is sub optimal
• Manage, coach and develop the Supply chain team, ensuring development plans are in place
• Act as a communication point between Commercial, Operations and Customer
• Promote collaborative planning with commercial and customer
• KPI monitoring and reporting on our own and site performance, including conformance to plan, internal and external customer service, finished goods waste, product sent outside of life constraints and changes to plan
• Ensure we have enough capacity to meet demand
• Deliver tailored briefs to the supply chain team
• Communicate any issues on service or supply issues to commercial contacts, customers and key factory personnel
• Ensure our planning and storage policies are cost effective and minimise waste
• Line management forward planning, planning and material flow
• Coordination and troubleshooting of 3rd party logistics and warehousing
• Resolution and rectification of supply chain issues
• Assist the procurement team with the development of the supplier base to make it more agile and match the PULL system.
• Look for Continuous Improvement opportunities both within the functional area and beyond
• Actively reduce the cost base of production through the plan
• Ensuring the planning team provide timely and accurate information with which to make short and long term decisions
• Ensure effective labour planning

Key Deliverables

• Customer Service
• Out of life waste
• Departmental accidents
• Logistics costs
• Optimize the use of labor

Skills & Knowledge

Team Working :

• Able to build relationships with key members of personnel, factory staff, commercial, customers and our purchasing team
• Able to communicate and influence effectively
• Able to chair / faciliate meetings and effectively apportion actions

Literacy & Numerical Skills :

• Able to complile and interpret and manipulate complex data and present back in an easily understandable format
• Able to compile written information in the appropriate format

IT Skills :

• Able to use and understand Management Operrating Systems fro key data retrieval
• Able to use and understand in hourse IT based systems and SAP
• Able to use excel to an advanced level
• Word and PowerPoint to intermediate level
• Use of key retailers' internet-based data systems

Processes and Products

• Be an expert in own area including PULL systems and planning tools
• Understand individual customer requirements and customer supply chains
• Ability to work in an organised and methodical way
• Knowledge of warehousing storage systems

Continuous Improvement

• Use and develop lean PULL supply methods to enhance business performance, reduce waste and maximise service
• Take part in and lead projects as and when required
• Work with procurement to establish a leaner and more agile upstream supply chain
• Strive for ways to improve accuracy and accessibility of data in the form of forecasts, capacity plans and promotional information
• Ensuring planning processes are constantly reviewed and refined to make as value adding as possible
• Look for business wide improvement opportunities
• Support the development of Holistech

Quality Methods and Understanding

• Know, understand and apply QA procedures, standards, legal requirements and customer specifications

Health and Safety Knowledge

• Promote safety practices
• Ensure you understand safe systems of work and risk assessment application
• Ensure good working warehousing practices
• Hygiene

People / Performance Management

• Able to coach others through processes or non-conformances

• Performance management of commercial, customer and factory team through KPI generation
• Coaching, development and performance management of Supply chain team

Financial Understanding

• Understand the impact of the plan against the bottom-line profit
• Understand impact of capacity balancing
• Able to calculate cost benefit of projects and Capex

Problem Solving and Decision Making

• React to issues as they occur and provide effective solutions
• Able to follow problems through to completion and reflect on process in order to share learning
• Able to make balanced decisions based on the benefits of options available to include cost impact
• Able to act on decisions with the required amount of urgency