Supplier Development Manager / Supply Chain Manager

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Supplier Development Manager / Supply Chain Manager

  • Location: Stevenage
  • Salary: Up to £50000.00 per annum + Excellent benefits and progression per year
  • Job Type:Permanent

Posted about 17 hours ago

  • Sector: Procurement and Supply Chain
  • Contact: Gemma Booty
  • Contact Email: GBooty@theonegroup.co.uk
  • Expiry Date: 23 July 2025
  • Job Ref: BBBH54116_1750693741

I am currently recruiting for a lovely position for someone who has experience as a Supplier Development Manager Commercial Contracts Manager within a defence environment.

This is a great job for someone who is within commutable distance from Stevenage with excellent benefits and long term opportunity.

The opportunity:
An opportunity has arisen due to the increase in deliveries for a Supply Chain Manager/ Supplier Development Manager to join ISP in the Sub-Assemblies team. If you are successful you will have the opportunity to bring your experience and knowledge to ensure effective Supplier performance, capability & risk management. As a team, they work across all programmes in the in a changing environment, managing and implementing both mature and new technologies.

What they are looking for from you:

    • Ideally a degree calibre Supply Chain professional with experience of international working in high technology companies.
    • Experience of supply chain management/ Supplier Development Manager in the Aerospace, Defence or Manufacturing environments.
    • A proven ability to:
    • Demonstrated ability to improve Supplier Performance (Delivery and Quality)using appropriate tools and lean methodologies
    • 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 and reporting into designated project the performance and manage supply chain risks to closure
    • Assess supply chain and suppliers capability to meet company 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 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


Benefits include

  • Career progression
  • Training
  • Paid overtime or time back in lieu
  • Company bonus
  • Generous pension
  • Subsidised onsite canteen and coffee shop
  • Onsite Gym
  • Free onsite car parking
  • Flexi leave
  • Hybrid working (2 days in the office)
  • 37.5 hour working week
  • Annual pay reviews
  • 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays (leave rises with service and also option to buy an extra 5 days)
  • EAP