Supplier Development Manager

MBDA; Stevenage; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading organisation in the defence sector as a Supplier Development Manager. This role involves enhancing supplier performance, managing risks, and engaging with multiple programs across MBDA. With excellent career progression opportunities, you'll be part of a dynamic, innovative team committed to excellence.

Benefits

Company bonus up to £2,500

Pension contribution up to 14%

Paid overtime opportunities

Up to 15 additional days Flexi Leave

Enhanced parental leave

Fantastic site facilities including subsidised meals

Excellent training and career development opportunities

Qualifications

• Degree calibre Supply Chain professional with international experience.
• Proven track record in Aerospace, Defence, or Manufacturing sectors.
• Experience in using lean methodologies for supplier performance.

Responsibilities

• Ensure effective Supplier performance, capability, and Risk management.
• Conduct capacity audits and manage a portfolio of suppliers.
• Identify and mitigate potential Supply Chain risks.

Skills

Supplier Performance Improvement

Risk Management

Problem Solving

Education

Degree in Supply Chain Management or related field

Job description

An amazing opportunity has arisen due to the Ramp up of MBDA deliveries for a Supply Chain Manager/ Supplier Development manager to join ISP in the Sub-Assemblies team.

Job Title: Supplier Development Manager

Salary: Circa £50,000 depending on experience

Location: Bolton or Stevenage (We may be able to offer a relocation package for this role)

Dynamic (hybrid) working: 2 days per week on-site due to workload classification

Security Clearance: British Citizen or a Dual UK national with British citizenship. Restrictions and/or limitations relating to nationality and/or rights to work may apply. As a minimum and after offer stage, all successful candidates will need to undergo HMG Basic Personnel Security Standard checks (BPSS), which are managed by the MBDA Personnel Security Team.

What we can offer you:

• Company bonus: Up to £2,500 (based on company performance and will vary year to year)

• Pension: maximum total (employer and employee) contribution of up to 14%

• Overtime: opportunity for paid overtime

• Flexi Leave: Up to 15 additional days

• Enhanced parental leave: offers up to 26 weeks for maternity, adoption and shared parental leave. Enhancements are available for paternity leave, neonatal leave and fertility testing and treatments.

• Facilities: Fantastic site facilities including subsidised meals, free car parking and much more…

• Training and Development: Excellent career progression, training and career development opportunities

The opportunity:

An opportunity has arisen due to the Ramp up of MBDA deliveries for a Supply Chain Manager/ Supplier Development manager to join ISP in the Sub-Assemblies team. The successful candidate will bring their experience and knowledge to ensure effective Supplier performance, capability & Risk management. As a team, we work across all programmes in MBDA UK in a changing environment, managing and implementing both mature and new technologies.

What we're looking for from you:

• Ideally a degree calibre Supply Chain professional with experience of international working in high technology companies.

• Experience of supply chain management/ Supplier Development Manager in the Aerospace, Defence or Manufacturing environments.

• A proven ability to:

• Demonstrated ability to improve Supplier Performance (Delivery and Quality)using appropriate tools and lean methodologies

• Capable of carrying out capacity audits which will identify key bottlenecks, yield, resources and sub-tier mapping activities to form an industrial view of supplier

• Managing a portfolio of suppliers on a day to day basis and reporting into designated project the performance and manage supply chain risks to closure

• Assess supply chain and suppliers capability to meet MBDA delivery profile for both current state vs Future state

• Competent in creating/ validating process flows and lead time analysis

• Hold excellent problem solving skills and understanding of techniques such as DMAIC (Define, Measure, Analyse, Improve, Control) to develop and implement root cause analysis and improvement plans within Supply Chain

• Identify, Escalate and mitigate potential Supply Chain Risks and put in place associated improvement and mitigation plans

• Conducting analysis and providing/delivering executive summaries

• Additionally you may be responsible/ assist in department supply chain excellence improvements

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