Job Description
Position Available: Supplier Development Manager
Location: Hertfordshire (Hybrid)
Salary: Up to £52,000 + Bonus
Experience needed: Strong experience improving supplier capability, capacity, and delivery performance within a complex manufacturing supply chain (ideally machining or treatments environment).
About the role
As a Supplier Development Manager, you’ll work directly with key suppliers to strengthen their capacity, capability, and delivery performance, ensuring they can meet current and future programme demands.
You’ll assess manufacturing readiness, identify constraints, and drive improvement plans across machining, fabrication, and treatment suppliers, collaborating with internal procurement, engineering, and quality teams to build a resilient, high-performing supply chain.
What we need from you:
1. Proven experience improving supplier capability, capacity, and delivery performance within a complex manufacturing environment (machining, treatments, precision engineering, or similar)
2. Strong understanding of manufacturing processes with the ability to analyse flow, lead time, and bottlenecks, and develop realis...