Role: Interim / Contract Senior Supply Chain Manager

Location: Portsmouth / Remote

Salary: £300 - £500 p/d depending on experience inside IR35

Requirement: Immediate need for a a senior supply chain specialist who can add support across complex and diverse project teams enabling mission critical MOD programmes to achieve success.

Function: Develop relationships with key project personnel to become the supply Chain 'Point of Contact' for the diverse project teams.

Role Overview

This will be a fast paced position in which you roll up your sleeves and get your hands dirty with the daily adhoc admin, from raising purchase orders to chasing invoice queries and RFQ's, whilst also being client facing with multi million pound programmes and supporting stakeholder engagement across procurement and Engineering teams at Director level.

I am looking for an immediately available dynamic and dexterous individual to support cradle to grave supply chain operational efficiency and longer term strategy. You will be embedded in project teams as the sole representative of the supply chain team across a wide range of complex and high value bids. Experience across MOD, technical engineering adhoc supply chain support, managing multiple projects at once, obsolescence, materials, logistics and professional services, will be a distinct advantage.

Reporting to the Engineering Services Supply Chain Manager core responsibility is to source, tender and contract suppliers to make services, sub-contractors and materials available to meet the business stringent project cost and timescale requirements.

This role requires a strong individual with a solid professional knowledge and understanding of Procurement and Supply Chain management principles and practices, including an understanding of the impact and implications of decisions made to stakeholders and suppliers.

• Complex bid experience
• MOD and Defence Sector
• SC cleared
• SAP
• Immediately available

You will need to obtain SC Clearance to secure this role. UK National and have lived in the UK for the past 5 Years..

If of interest, please apply online and ideally also send your CV to tom.dykes@1st-executive.com so we can arrange a time to discuss your background, suitability and the role itself in more detail.

I have interview availability Friday 23 September for an immediate candidate.