Supplier Development Manager Location: Bolton 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, hybrid working (2 days a week on-site). Join a team, driven to achieve excellence, where your skills in supplier development can make a real difference to help shape the future of national security while advancing your career with unparalleled opportunities for professional growth and innovation. Due to a ramp-up of deliveries, a Supplier Performance Manager is required to bring experience and knowledge to ensure effective Supplier performance, capability & Risk management. The team works across all programmes in the business in a changing environment, managing and implementing both mature and new technologies. Supplier Development Manager experience required * Ideally, a degree-calibre Supply Chain professional with international working experience in Aerospace, Defence, or Manufacturing sectors. * Managing a portfolio of suppliers, reporting to the designated project the performance and managing supply chain risks to closure * 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 * Assess supply chain and suppliers’ capability to meet the delivery profile for both current state vs Future State * Hold excellent problem-solving skills and understanding of techniques such as DMAIC 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 * Assist in supply chain excellence improvements This award-winning business are firm believers in offering all staff the best possible platform to succeed, providing support for career development and personal assistance. They have a range of employee networks and internal communities that include Parents and Carers, Gender Equality, Neurodiversity, Pride, Ethnic Diversity and many more. They care about their staff and are passionate about what they do and why they do it. Cirrus Selection offers the services of an Employment Agency for permanent recruitment and the services of an Employment Business for contract recruitment