Job title: Supply Chain Manager
Department: Planning
Reports to: Assistant Senior Accounts Commercial Manager
Position summary: As Commercial Manager, you will be responsible for leading the Production Control and Procurement Team to provide the forecasting, workload and resourcing plans to support the efficient running of the plant. You will drive performance excellence through continuous improvement focusing on systems automation and cross-functional alignment. You will schedule production in line with capacity constraints to maintain customer service levels and work with the production departments to attain their performance metrics through maximizing efficiency and the procurement of raw materials.
In addition, you will support Finance in relation to budget setting, forecasting, and monthly reporting.
Main job functions: this list is not exhaustive or limited to the below:
1. Ensure the Health, Safety and Welfare of all Staff, specifically within the Department.
2. Business Plan formulation and monthly reviews.
3. Budget formulation and review against targets for both the planning team and support finance team.
4. Generation of Management reports for the area, critiqued against departmental KPIs and Financial reporting data.
5. Work with production management to ensure the Production areas are correctly resourced.
6. Monitor and report performance against plan, continuously striving to improve compliance to schedule.
7. Accountable for the accuracy and integrity of data recording.
8. Maintain and measure suppliers and set improvement plans where required.
9. Identify and reduce stock obsolescence.
10. Support the Production Manager in achieving companywide targets and analyze performance to identify efficiency improvements.
11. Safeguard the performance of your unit; meet budgetary targets, and ensure quality of service for customers.
12. Effective management of Budgets.
13. Ensure effective two-way communication to Staff and Managers.
14. Direct management of the Department’s KPIs ensuring alignment with Company and Unit objectives.
15. Responsible for all departmental policies and procedures, ensuring they are effectively reviewed/updated.
16. ISO9001 Management and maintenance of the Departmental Quality Plan and related procedures.
Job location: Telford, Shropshire
Supervisory responsibilities: Senior Specialist in Planning
Skills required:
* Excellent communication skills.
* A can-do positive attitude.
* Coaching skills to develop people to their full potential.
* Continuous Improvement outlook and knowledge of techniques.
* Project Management skills.
* Excellent planning and organization skills.
* Effective delegation skills.
Qualifications:
Essential: Degree Level or equivalent CIPS qualification
Experience required:
Essential:
* Significant technical experience within an FMCG environment.
* IT skills – Word, advanced Excel, PowerPoint.
* Strong analytical skills.
* Ability to think strategically and achieve set plans.
* Strong negotiation skills.
* Passion for delivering results.
* Ambitious, driven, committed and responsible for own development.
* Proven ability to manage change.
* Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
* An extensive knowledge of SAP and MRP systems.
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