Strategic Process Partner — Planning & Supply Chain Ops

Barbour; South Shields; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary bonus

Staff discount

Staff shop

25 days holiday

Training & development

Free onsite parking

Canteen

Hybrid & flexible working

Early Friday finish

Job summary

Barbour is seeking a Business Process Partner (Planning, Supply Chain & Operations) to lead end-to-end process design and governance at its South Shields head office. The role focuses on improving visibility, decision-making and operational performance across planning, supply chain and operations.

The role combines 4 days in the office with 1 day of home-working, and reports to the Head Office processes team.

Qualifications

• Experience in planning, supply chain, operations, procurement, logistics, or business process improvement.
• Experience in retail, wholesale, apparel, consumer products or comparable multi-channel organisation.
• Strong end-to-end process analysis, facilitation and future-state design capability.
• Excellent communication and influencing skills across different levels of stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Build trusted relationships with department heads and leaders to understand growth priorities and planning challenges.
• Translate business challenges into defined process opportunities with ownership and measures.
• Lead cross-functional decisions and resolve information-flow issues.
• Lead discovery, mapping and analysis across forecasting to buy, demand and supply planning and performance management.
• Define future-state processes, roles, controls, and performance measures.

Skills

Planning experience

Supply chain

Operations

Procurement

Logistics

Analytics skills

Tools

ERP platforms

Analytics platforms

Job description

Barbour is seeking a Business Process Partner (Planning, Supply Chain & Operations) to lead end-to-end process design and governance at its South Shields head office. The role focuses on improving visibility, decision-making and operational performance across planning, supply chain and operations.

The role combines 4 days in the office with 1 day of home-working, and reports to the Head Office processes team.