The Opportunity/Role
Reporting to the UK Supply Chain Director, the Head of Supply Planning will play a pivotal role in the development and functional leadership of the Supply Planning function.
The Head of Supply Planning shall be responsible for developing the strategy and developing the function tomanage all activities across the product lifecycle for the supply chain. This shall ensure all supply chains andvalue streams are professionally designed, developed, planned, scheduled, and governed; including thedevelopment and management of the inventory strategy and ensuring this is efficiently and effectivelydelivered and managed.
Together with their teams, they shall design capable supply and value chains to meetcurrent and future build rate readiness, planning the product from introduction through to supply whilstmeasuring and developing the supply chain performance and mitigating supply chain risk and issues.
The role shall work with the wider Manufacturing, Finance, Procurement and Supply Chain functions andleadership team to develop and govern all functional process, including deployment and implementation.
Governance shall include and incorporate industry best practice, Customer, Regulators and Aliaxisbenchmarks.
Functional competencies
1. Ability to define with practicable experience of the implementation of an end-to-end management process, recognising all constraints ensuring optimal demand and capacity planning balance across the supply chain to ensure on time delivery and optimal inventory
2. Experienced in developing and managing an end-to-end supply chain design at all levels within the value chain, recognising key changes across the product and portfolio lifecycle which could affect the commodities/supply chain value stream
3. Ability to validate the quality and robustness of planning activity to ensure (a) risks to planned performance are understood and actively addressed; and (b) impact such as capital investment, manpower, rate readiness and supply chain change are known and managed
4. Experienced in supply chain risk management to mitigate potential to impact delivery. Clear methodology in the management of supply chain risk to ensure all risks are identified, prioritised, escalated and disseminated within the wider organisation. This is to ensure all risks have clear mitigation strategies, incorporated within all commodity strategies and are effectively managed
5. Experienced in the functional development of an ERP solution with all aspects related to materials management to ensure correct planning data and is maintained for all systems, commodities, and components.
Required Experience and Knowledge
6. Proven ability to lead and direct a diverse functional and cross functional team(s)
7. Delivery of results (value) from successfully working with stakeholders and customers
8. Degree qualified or significant experience in a relevant functional discipline, ideally withsupply chain management qualification (i.e. CPIM or CSCP).
9. Data driven with strong analytical and IT skills (Microsoft Office Suite – Excel & Access),strong understanding of ERP (Dynamics AX / SAP), MRP software, optional Power BI.
10. Integrated Business Planning practitioner, with experience of embedding and developingprocesses
11. Participated at a mid/senior level in transformation, relocation, or system migrationprojects and able to demonstrate success in implementation.
Benefits:
☀ 33 days holiday (inc bank holidays) with the option to purchase up to 5 more
Life Assurance 6x annual salary
Critical illness cover
Hybrid working policy - work from home two days a week!
Enhanced parental leave
Great discounts on local retailers and restaurants
Fantastic Health & Wellbeing package including an Employee Assistance Programme
Company Pension contributions up to 10%
Dental and healthcare cash plan
Cycle to work scheme
Plus many more