Supply Chain Manager

SF Recruitment; Middleton; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A global FMCG leader in the United Kingdom is seeking a Supply Chain Manager to oversee integrated planning processes and ensure excellence in service delivery. This hands-on leadership position emphasizes workplace safety and continuous improvement across complex supply networks. Candidates should possess strong leadership skills and a robust background in supply chain management. The role involves collaborating with various departments to achieve strategic and financial goals.

Qualifications

• Experienced supply chain professional with a background in planning.
• Strong leadership skills needed to drive improvement strategies.
• Ability to coordinate and manage complex supply networks.

Responsibilities

• Lead safety culture and improve workplace safety standards.
• Drive integrated planning processes and ensure alignment.
• Identify supply gaps and coordinate actions to address them.

Skills

Leadership

Supply chain management

Continuous improvement

Inventory planning

Job description

SF Recruitment are working with a global leader in the FMCG manufacturing space, based in greater manchester to recruit a supply chain manager. An exciting opportunity to play the leading role within to site's planning & wider supply chain. This role would suit a seasoned supply chain professional with an accomplished planning background, or a senior planner / planning manager looking for the next step up.

The Supply Chain Manager leads demand, supply, and inventory planning activities across the region, ensuring consistent service excellence for customers while embedding divisional standards and best practices. The role is a key member of the site leadership team, partnering closely with Commercial, Operations, Manufacturing, Logistics, and Finance to deliver strategic and financial objectives.

This is a hands-on leadership role with a strong bias towards continuous improvement and the need to drive sustainable change across complex supply networks.

Key Responsibilities

Lead and promote a strong safety culture, maintaining a zero-tolerance approach to health and safety breaches and continuously improving workplace safety standards.

Own and drive regional integrated planning processes, ensuring demand and supply scenarios are clearly understood and aligned.

Lead on site IBP, identifying supply gaps and coordinating effective gap-closing actions, including impact assessment, escalation, and follow-up.

Manage supply gap mi...