Supply Chain Manager
Devizes
On-Site
Permanent
Salary up to 60k DOE plus bonus
Job Profile
We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Supply Chain Manager to join my client's growing team.
In this role, you will be responsible for overseeing and optimising our end-to-end Supply Chain processes, ensuring the availability and delivery of critical components, managing supplier relationships, and driving operational excellence.
Responsibilities
Demand Planning and Forecasting: Maintain forecasts, manage exception reports and analyse forecast discrepancies to understand and respond to trends and changes, with corrective actions. Work collaboratively across the business to plan for NPD, discontinuations, marketing events, offers and campaigns to overlay uplifts on baseline forecasts.
Maintenance of Replenishment System: Review, refine and optimise purchasing parameters, to enhance the ordering pattern for all product ranges.
Maintain accurate planning parameters in the systems - NetSuite and NetStock.
Purchasing: Interrogate and verify suggested schedule purchase orders and meet bespoke customer requirements.
Liaise with suppliers to confirm production and shipment dates in line with lead times.
Communicate with customer service and sales team to align priorities to meet customer requirements.
Stock Holding Management: Ensure optimum stock levels to maximise customer availability and ensure trending product lines are never out of stock.
Service Level KPI Management - Action daily and weekly KPIs and dashboard exceptions whilst identifying and resolving any issues with fulfilment. Support the development of and produce weekly and monthly Supply Chain KPI packs.
Personal Attributes
- Ability to manage, influence and engage a broad group of senior stakeholders.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Excellent planning and negotiation skills
Confident communication with employees and customers at all levels
Proven commercial experience, including purchasing and Supply Chain expertise
Knowledge of ERP/MRP systems, Ideally CIPS qualified, and familiarity with inventory and stock control.