Supply Chain Manager

AVD Appoint Ltd; England; Hybrid; GBP 54,000 - 66,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work

Salary up to £60,000 + benefits

Job summary

AVD Appoint Ltd is recruiting a Supply Chain Manager for a Cornwall-based engineering organisation. The role is hybrid and focuses on heading purchasing, supervising two Buyers, and owning the purchasing function, including imports from Europe and the Far East.

You will drive quality control, root-cause analysis of non-conformances, and define departmental processes to support high-volume operations (around 20,000 SKUs). The company offers a competitive salary and benefits.

Qualifications

• Experience as a Supply Chain/Purchasing Manager in engineering or manufacturing.
• Experience in importing and supplier management.
• Ability to lead a small purchasing team.

Responsibilities

• Head up purchasing, overseeing 2 buyers.
• Manage imports from Europe and Far East.
• Oversee quality control and root-cause analysis.

Skills

Supply chain leadership

Purchasing management

Importing experience

Team leadership

Education

MCIPS

Job description

Supply Chain Manager - Cornwall (Hybrid) - up to 60,000 + Benefits - REF 2061

I am currently recruiting for a Supply Chain Manager to work for a leading engineering organisation based in Cornwall (Hybrid). Salary up to 60,000 + Benefits.

The organisation has been established for over 35 years and has an incredible reputation in the market positioning them as one of the UK's leading suppliers of their highly specialist products.

To support the ambitious, but realistic growth plans of the business they have created a completely new role within their business and have the need to appoint a Supply Chain Manager on a permanent basis.

In this role a Supply Chain Manager, you will be responsible for heading up a purchasing department and will be managing 2 other Buyers as well as being hands on within the role. You will take complete responsibility for Purchasing within the business and will be integral to defining how the department operates. You will be dealing with day to day buying, specifically with regards to imports from their suppliers in Europe and the Far East. This could involve supplier visits from time to time, but isn't necessary if the travel element doesn't appeal. The other aspect of the role would be looking at Quality control relating to the non conformance of products that come in and conducting necessary root cause analysis on them to establish the issue and then following up with the supplier to resolve the issue. It's a very high volume role with circa 20,000 SKU's.

Essential Requirements:

• Previous experience as a Supply Chain Manager, Purchasing Manager, Procurement Manager or similar
• Previous experience in the Construction, Engineering or Manufacturing sectors
• Experience dealing with importing

Desirable Requirements:

• MCIPS
• Experience with forecasting
• Experience dealing with consumables

This is an incredibly exciting opportunity for a Supply Chain Manager to join a very exciting business that have projects throughout the whole of the UK. They pride themselves on operating at the forefront of their market and with the growth plans the have forecast, this role could further develop into a position of great seniority in time should this appeal.