Supplier Development Manager / Supply Chain Manager

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