Supply Quality Officer - Supply Chain Coordinator

Certain Advantage; Bretton; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading supply chain organization in Flintshire is looking for a Supply Chain Officer. The role involves managing supplier performance, anticipating risks, and using digital tools in a dynamic and fast-moving environment. The ideal candidate has solid experience in supply chain or procurement and MRP expertise, with a focus on effective communication. This position offers hybrid working options and is contract-based until September 2026, likely to extend.

Benefits

Hybrid working benefits

Support for transformation projects

Qualifications

• Solid experience in one of Supply Chain, Procurement, Manufacturing Engineering, or Design Engineering.
• Experience in using digital solutions/tools.
• Ability to communicate at all levels of the business.

Responsibilities

• Manage the supplier portfolio using business tools.
• Anticipate risks and drive mitigation actions.
• Control demand and forecasts.
• Communicate with internal customers and external suppliers.
• Challenge supplier performance when necessary.
• Lead supplier recoveries.
• Use data management tools for supply chain decisions.
• Manage MRP Master Data and Order Book.
• Coordinate Supplier Working Parties.

Skills

Solid experience in Supply Chain

Experience with Digital solutions/tools

Transnational working experience

MRP expertise

Negotiation level of English

Project management skills

LEAN experience

Strong communication skills

Willingness to travel

Tools

SAP

Job description

Supply Chain Officer

Flintshire - Hybrid Working

Contract and Pay

• Contract until September 2026 (likely to be extended beyond)
• £21.68 per hour PAYE - £29.00 per hour umbrella

About the role

An exciting opportunity has opened within the Supply Chain operations organisation for the position of Supply Officer based in Flintshire on a Sub-Contract Basis until September 2026 and is likely to be extended beyond. This is a perfect opportunity to work on a dynamic network between Flintshire Plant, the Final Assembly Lines, and the Procurement world.

The successful candidate will be able to take advantage of the latest hybrid working benefits, sharing time between home and office-based activities.

The successful candidate will drive supplier performance across the end-to-end supply chain in a fastmoving, digital environment.

Responsibilities

• Daily management of the supplier portfolio using existing business tools and future digitalisation means.
• Anticipation of risks and drive mitigation actions.
• Demand and forecast control.
• Communicate effectively to internal customers, team colleagues and external suppliers.
• Supply chain prioritisation.
• Challenge Supplier performance where appropriate.
• Lead & Drive Supplier recoveries.
• Understand and define the optimal ordering characteristics and strategy.
• Specify and use of process automation.
• Use data management tools to drive decisions in the supply chain.
• Order Book Management and maintaining MRP Master Data.
• Coordinate Supplier Working Parties.
• Interact transnationally with suppliers (remotely and/or at suppliers) and proactively operate in a procurement community as partner to the Supply Chain Quality Manager and Commercial Buyer.
• Be the 1st point of contact for supply chain queries from operations.

Qualifications and Experience

• Solid experience ideally in one of the following areas: Supply Chain, Procurement, Manufacturing Engineering, Design Engineering.
• Experience in the use and deployment of Digital solutions / tools.
• Experience of transnational working.
• MRP expertise and experience of SAP in a manufacturing environment.
• Negotiation level of English.
• Project management and LEAN experience.
• Ability to communicate at all levels of the business.
• Willingness to travel and flexibility.

Benefits

Support Supply chain and Logistics Transformation projects.