Supply Chain Manager

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

Job summary

AVD Appoint Ltd in Cornwall is seeking a Supply Chain Manager for a hybrid role. You will head the purchasing department, lead two buyers, and oversee daily purchasing activity, including imports from Europe and the Far East. You’ll also address quality issues and perform root cause analysis with suppliers.

This is a high-volume, strategic role with potential for seniority as plans grow, working from a hybrid site in Cornwall.

Qualifications

• Essential: experience as Supply Chain Manager, Purchasing Manager or Procurement Manager.
• Essential: experience in Construction, Engineering or Manufacturing sectors.
• Experience dealing with importing.
• Desirable: MCIPS, forecasting, consumables experience.

Responsibilities

• Head up a purchasing department and manage 2 buyers.
• Hands-on purchasing responsibilities including day-to-day buying.
• Oversee imports from suppliers in Europe and the Far East; travel if needed.
• Quality control relating to non-conforming products; root cause analysis with suppliers.

Skills

Supply chain management

Purchasing / Procurement

Importing

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.