Supplier Development Manager

Location: Bolton

Work Policy: Hybrid working with 2 days onsite

Salary: Up to £50,000

Headline Benefits: A bonus of up to £2,500, Paid Overtime, Strong pension, 25 days annual leave with the option to accrue 15 additional days flexi leave, enhanced parental leave.

We’re working with an award-winning, world-leading, technical & scientific engineering organisation, with sites across Europe, who have an exciting opportunity for a Supplier Development Manager.

The Supplier Development Manager role:

An opportunity has arisen due to the ramp-up of deliveries for a Supplier Performance Manager to join the procurement function in the Sub-Assemblies team. You will bring experience and knowledge to ensure effective Supplier performance, capability & Risk management. As a team, they work across all programmes in the business in a changing environment, managing and implementing both mature and new technologies.

The role provides an excellent opportunity to:

* Influence the evolution of the company’s industrial and business environment.

* Improve internal working practices to drive efficiency and effectiveness.

* Be a member of a dedicated team of supply chain managers handling supplier performance in terms of delivery and quality.

* Work and collaborate with colleagues (UK and internationally) from various departments, procurement experts, technical and quality experts, and key suppliers (some travel will be required).

* Participate in well-resourced training and development programs to enhance your procurement and quality knowledge.

Supplier Development Manager experience required

* Ideally, a degree-calibre Supply Chain professional with international working experience in technology companies.

* 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, reporting to the designated project the performance and manage supply chain risks to closure

* Assess supply chain and suppliers’ capability to meet the 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 the 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

* Previous experience in supply chain management or as a Supplier Development Manager in Aerospace, Defence, or Manufacturing sectors.

Please note:

Rules onsite require British Citizenship. Dual nationals can apply for this position, and you will be required to undergo UK Security Clearance.

The business are firm believers in offering all staff the best possible platform to succeed, providing support for career development as well as personal assistance. They hold numerous awards on the back of this work and have a range of employee networks and internal communities that include Parents and Carers, Gender Equality, Neurodiversity, Pride, Ethnic Diversity and many more. They really care about their staff and are passionate about what they do and why they do it.

Their order book stretches for many years, and they have healthy profits and a range of new projects in place. They’re stable with steady controlled growth, offer dynamic working, and fantastic opportunities to grow and develop your career further.

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