Senior Supply Chain & Procurement Coodinator

KNDS UK; Stockport; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 34,000; Full time

Job summary

KNDS UK, a leader in military engineering, is seeking a Senior Supply Chain & Procurement Coordinator. This role involves managing supplier relations, ensuring timely material supply, and overseeing inventory management. Ideal candidates will have a degree or HND in Logistics and experience in procurement, making it a great opportunity for career advancement.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Attractive pension scheme

Half-day Friday

Life assurance scheme

Employee Assistance Programme

Free on-site car parking

On-site electric vehicle charging points

Qualifications

• Proven experience in Procurement and Supply Chain.
• Understanding of SAP is essential.
• German language skills are advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate supply of material from key suppliers.
• Maintain inventory accuracy and oversee stock control.
• Prepare reports for the Operations Team.

Skills

SAP

Procurement

Supply Chain Management

Inventory Management

Logistics

Education

Degree or HND in Logistics or Manufacturing-based discipline

Job description

Senior Supply Chain & Procurement Coodinator

KNDS UK Stockport, England, United Kingdom

Senior Supply Chain & Procurement Coodinator

KNDS UK Stockport, England, United Kingdom

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A Little About Us

With over a century of engineering expertise and innovation, KNDS UK is a renowned world leader in rapidly deployable military bridging systems and a key partner in the UK MoD’s Boxer armoured vehicle programme.

We are proud of our heritage and our reputation of providing the highest quality engineering solutions for over 100 years. As a trusted partner to military customers around the world, our employees are the very heart of our company. We have a skilled and experienced workforce dedicated to achieving excellence in all areas of the business from Engineering to Project Management, Business Support to Operations.

About The Role

As our business evolves, we are looking to strengthen our workforce with talented and motivated individuals across a range of disciplines to work from our Northwest Engineering Centre of Excellence and currently have this opportunity available:

The core responsibility of this role is to maintain and coordinate supply of material from key suppliers in line with demand requirements. You will be involved from project initiation to completion, coordinating with suppliers, internal teams, and customers to maintain efficiency and accuracy.

Key Duties Include, But Are Not Limited To

• Work closely with suppliers to ensure timely delivery of materials and where needed provide solutions to supply chain/logistics challenges that ensure contractual obligations can be fulfilled.
• Overseeing stock control and ensuring accurate inventory management.
• Preparing reports for the Operations Team and supporting regular reporting duties.
• Supporting additional business functions as required.
• Build strong and effective relationships with supply chain partners, internal colleagues and support our relationships principal suppliers.
• To focus on operational performance management of the key supply chain partners using a structured and data-driven approach.
• To actively manage and respond to live supply chain operational requirements, taking ownership to both help with and resolve issues that arise.
• Working with the Group procurement team to maintain purchase orders in line with latest BOM.
• PIR & Source list maintenance for allocated suppliers.
• Work closely with the group procurement team to ensure inventory is at the correct level, any changes to designs or requirements are understood and implemented.
• Work closely with the warehouse team to ensure parts are processed efficiently.
  
  

What We’re Looking For

We need you to be educated to degree level, HND or equivalent in Logistics or a Manufacturing-based discipline. We need you to have proven experience within Procurement, Supply Chain & Inventory Management with a good understanding of SAP. It would be advantageous for you to speak German for this position.

Why You Should Join Us

When you become part of the KNDS UK team, you will enjoy employee benefits such as:

• Competitive salary
• Attractive pension (4% employee contribution, 7% employer contribution)
• Half-day Friday
• Life assurance scheme
• Company sick pay scheme which increases with service
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Additional Holidays & other Long Service rewards
• Wellbeing initiatives, such as Free Fruit on Tuesday’s
• Cycle to work Scheme
• Free on-site car parking
• On-site electric vehicle charging points
  
  

We’re also very proud to be part of the Armed Forces Covenant since 2018, achieving their Silver Award in 2020 and Gold Award in 2024. We actively support and encourage service leavers, reservists and cadets to join our team, recognising military skills and qualifications in our recruitment and selection process.

If you are passionate about Procurement & Supply Chain and eager to contribute to a thriving workplace environment, we encourage you to apply for this exciting opportunity.

We look forward to receiving your application!

Recruiters please note that we have a list of approved recruitment agency partners in place and we will contact agencies directly should we require support. Any unsolicited CV’s received via an agency will be accepted with thanks but without fee.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Contract

Job function

• Job function

  Management and Manufacturing

• Industries

  Defense and Space Manufacturing

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