Strategic Supply Chain Leader - Transformation & Sourcing

Arguile; East Hagbourne; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Arguile is seeking a senior Supply Chain & Procurement Manager to lead a technically complex operation within a regulated engineering environment. You will own the overall strategy, build a resilient, commercially effective supply chain and guide transformation across buying, supplier management and ERP usage.

You’ll collaborate with Operations, Engineering, Finance and Quality, leading a team while shaping a multi-year plan to support growth, optimize costs and manage risk in a global context.

Qualifications

• Significant experience across Supply Chain, Procurement or Strategic Sourcing.
• Proven experience leading and developing procurement or supply chain teams.
• Strong strategic sourcing and supplier management experience.
• Experience with commercial negotiation and supplier performance management.
• Strong understanding of supply chain risk and resilience.
• Experience developing and implementing supply chain strategies or transformation programmes.
• Experience with ERP/MRP systems, supply chain data and KPI development.
• Strong inventory management experience.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Ability to operate between strategic leadership and detailed operational issues.

Responsibilities

• Developing and owning a 3-5 year Supply Chain Strategy aligned with business growth plans.
• Defining the future supply chain operating model, capabilities, processes and resources.
• Leading and developing the Procurement and Buying team.
• Developing sourcing strategies across key categories and areas of expenditure.
• Establishing a strategic supplier management and segmentation framework.
• Improving supplier performance across cost, quality, delivery, responsiveness and risk.
• Developing supplier resilience and continuity strategies, including dual sourcing and supplier development.
• Identifying single-source dependencies, capacity constraints and long-lead risks.
• Driving improvements across supply chain processes, governance and ERP utilisation.
• Improving inventory management and reducing excess and obsolete stock.
• Delivering procurement cost-reduction and value-generation initiatives.
• Supporting bids and new programme opportunities with supplier, cost, capacity and risk inputs.
• Owning the supply chain risk register and ensuring appropriate mitigation strategies are in place.
• Working closely with Quality on supplier qualification, audits and performance improvement.
• Acting as the senior Supply Chain and Procurement representative across the business.
• Working with international teams to identify opportunities for global sourcing, supplier leverage and best-practice sharing.

Skills

Strategic leadership

Procurement management

Supply chain

Strategic sourcing

ERP/MRP

KPI development

Stakeholder management

Negotiation

Inventory management

Risk management

Education

CIPS/MCIPS

Bachelor's degree

Tools

ERP software

Data analytics tools

Job description

Arguile is seeking a senior Supply Chain & Procurement Manager to lead a technically complex operation within a regulated engineering environment. You will own the overall strategy, build a resilient, commercially effective supply chain and guide transformation across buying, supplier management and ERP usage.

You’ll collaborate with Operations, Engineering, Finance and Quality, leading a team while shaping a multi-year plan to support growth, optimize costs and manage risk in a global context.