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Supply Chain Manager

Employer
b3 jobs
Location
West London
Salary
c. £55,000
Closing date
2 Dec 2021

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Contract Type
Permanent
Function
Planning, Supply Chain
Business Sector
Food Manufacturing

Job Details

Supply Chain Manager

Job ref: 7892 | c. £55,000 | West London

The company

You will be working for an innovative and expanding food business that has won several prestigious awards for its great-tasting products.

The business has ambitious growth plans, so there is ample opportunity for career growth and development within the company.

The job

The purpose of your role as Supply Chain Manager is to manage the teams to analyse and formulate production plans to keep stocks at an optimum position to meet customer needs, plus utilise all business resources to continually improve the customer experience across the supply chain streams and deliver improvements.

Key tasks:

  • Develop an appropriate supply chain strategy to maximise customer satisfaction at the lowest possible cost.
  • Evaluate and report on KPIs (Quality, Service Level & OTIF) on a weekly basis.
  • Ensure supply chain processes meet legal requirements and standards.
  • Communicate and negotiate with suppliers and vendors to land more profitable deals.
  • Lead the supply chain team in executing best practices and measuring performance through agreed Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).
  • Plan, manage, and coordinate all activities related to the sourcing and procurement of necessary materials and supplies to meet the changing levels of product demand.
  • Works directly with sales department to determine most cost-effective distribution solution for finished goods transportation to customers.

Your experience

To be considered for the Supply Chain Manager, you will:

  • Degree educated in a supply chain, operations, analytical or maths related subject.
  • Previous experience working in a supply chain, planning and operations role within an FMCG environment – most ideally food manufacturing.
  • Team management experience.
  • Excited to work in a fast-growing SME, developing processes and systems in the rapid growth period.
  • Excellent communication & relationship management skills.
  • Excellent time management skills and able to prioritise between multiple tasks.
  • Highly analytical with strong Excel skills.

More details

The Supply Chain Manager job is based in West London and is paying c. £55,000 according to your experience.

How to apply

To be considered for the Supply Chain Manager job, please click the Apply button.

After submitting your CV, we aim to contact you in 1-2 business days on the assumption that your skills and experience match the job requirements.

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Alternate job titles

Production Planning Manager | Head of Supply Chain | Forecasting Manager | Senior Production Planner | Materials Manager | Materials Planner

Company

Since 2000, b3 jobs has been helping to further 1000s of people’s careers within the food manufacturing industry, throughout the whole of the UK. As one of the leading specialist food manufacturing recruitment agencies, b3 jobs cover all disciplines both permanent and interim and from graduates to MD’s,

Our core values are always:

  • to find the very best job for you - not us!
  • to give you friendly, ethical, honest and expert recruitment services
  • to advise and not pressurise, so that you can make the right decisions for you

We genuinely strive to provide you with what you want – a job that not only offers the salary you’re after, but also the career progression and job satisfaction that makes going to work all the more worthwhile. Enough trumpet blowing though – visit our website to read just some of our happy previous candidate testimonials - we are more than happy to let our reputation precede us!

For a full up to date list of our jobs, visit www.b3jobs.co.uk

Food Industry Graduates

If you are graduating soon and looking for your first job in food manufacturing, have a look at our Graduate Resource Hub on the b3 jobs website.

https://www.b3jobs.co.uk/graduates

Here you will find everything you need to get started on searching for a new position, from CV and cover letter writing tips, sample food industry job descriptions, informative and entertaining blog posts, useful links and even live graduate vacancies you can apply for.

Company info
Website
Telephone
01435 866000
Location
Heffle Buildings
33a High Street
Heathfield
East Sussex
TN21 8HU
GB

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