Supply Chain Manager
- Location:Filton, Gloucestershire, England
- Salary: £26.48 - 35.03 per hour
- Category
- Sector:
- Contract type Contract
Role Overview:
Our client, a world leader in aviation/aerospace manufacturing, are looking for a Supply Chain Manager to work a hybrid role to be split between home/remote working and their Filton facility (minimum of 3 days on site)
The role will primarily be accountable for a portfolio of Landing Gear Structures suppliers who supply equipment to multiple civil aircraft programmes. You will form a strong network within the Purchase Order community and across a multi-functional working environment, dealing with customers based in the United States
The successful candidate will be able to take advantage of the latest hybrid working benefits, sharing time between remote working and office-based activities (minimum 3 days on site)
This is a challenging role and is crucial in supporting Operations to achieve on-time and on quality aircraft deliveries. Purchase Order department works on 3 main activities:
- Supply Management (Where quality, time and cost are our main concerns)
- Control Supplier (Where we ensure our flyable products continuously meets our Airbus Supplier’s Requirements)
- Supplier Development (Where we anticipate complex issues, mitigate risks and develop supplier’s capabilities)
Responsibilities:
- Strong collaboration with suppliers to ensure On Time and on Quality deliveries in order to deliver parts to all customers (FALs and Plants)
- Work in partnership with the suppliers to support their development
- Ensuring compliance of suppliers and products to applicable requirements with all relevant contributors Contributing to the Supply Chain voice in the MFT (Programme, engineering, customer services, buyer
- Dealing with various activities in a constant evolving environment
- Dealing with external partners
- Discovering different manufacturing technologies
Experience/Skillset:
- Supply Chain experience, and dealing with Quality in relation to the supply chain, is ESSENTIAL
- Project management experience/knowledge highly beneficial
- Flexibility essential as role will be dealing with customers in America
- Industrial knowledge, ideally within the aviation/aerospace industry but other industries will be considered (engineering/military/defence etc)
- Problem solving techniques
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills
- Influence others
- Curiosity & willingness to learn
- Assertiveness