Role: Junior Supply Chain Manager

Location: Hampshire

Fantastic opportunity to contribute to a dynamic and agile market leading organisation that is going from strength to strength globally. This role will sit within their Aviation and Aerospace division.

The role is to join as a Junior Supply Chain Manager that will be responsible for providing the best in class procurement service in a cutting edge environment by developing and executing strategic sourcing projects. You will work on the procurement of technical equipment, custom-engineered products, software and components.

Key Accountabilities:

• Develop strong relationships with key stakeholders in order to influence behaviours and ensure appropriate involvement of Procurement in all sourcing activities.
• Maintain awareness of the restrictions, controls and accreditation that are placed upon suppliers working in a Defence environment
• Collaborate with the Category Management Team to identify opportunities to utilize extant supplier relationships and frameworks that leverage Group scale.
• Ensure compliance with process, governance and controls as agreed in the Procurement Code of Practice and Sourcing methodology.
• Collaboratively develop plans with key stakeholders to ensure alignment of targets, improve supplier performance, and implement continuous improvement plans across spend.
• Collaborate with peers to develop and enhance systems, process, and best practice sharing to help achieve best in class performance, and bring consistency to sourcing activities.

Key Capabilities/Knowledge:

• Ability to guide others through the bidding processes.
• Understands impact of external customer requirements, recommends solutions to minimize risk and improve probability of winning external bids & tenders.
• Adaptive and change focused; able to adapt pace of delivery to meet business requirements.
• Provides best practice advice to business users and junior members of staff.
• Considered a technical expert within allotted embedded teams.
• Natural and articulate around management. Good listening skills and able to focus on issues critical to senior leaders.
• Highly customer focused and concerned with meeting and exceeding customer expectations.

Junior Experience & Qualifications:

• Proven contract negotiation and stakeholder influencing skills
• Demonstrable experience of the full sourcing process; from design through to execution
• Degree in a Business or Engineering discipline, or equivalent experience
• CIPS Qualified or equivalent experience
• 3+ years in a Procurement or Supply Chain related role

If you, or someone you know would like further information please send a current CV to geoff.hunt@1st-executive.com or apply to this job ASAP.