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Head of Supply Chain About the Role Working in an extremely agile purchasing and supplier management department, you will report to the Chief Commercial Officer. Your role will be vital to the day-to-day running of the department, ensuring parts are supplied into programmes on time and within budget. You will support the business with ongoing programme supplier management and day-to-day purchasing, while identifying and reporting risks and opportunities. You will manage a range of highly technical components and their associated supply chains. Regular reporting of the supply chain status both within the business and customer facing will be essential. You will lead the day-to-day supplier and subcontractor management activities, identify risks, and implement risk mitigation strategies to enable continuous supply. For new programme opportunities, you will provide guidance for estimates and support the growth of the engineering business activity. Main Duties Lead the ongoing work plan for Supplier Management, Purchasing, and Buying activities. Work with the supply chain, continually building and improving supplier/customer relationships and processes. Communicate clearly and openly with stakeholders, identifying ways to streamline purchasing, distribution, supplier warehousing, and logistics. Support programmes through to completion, ensuring on-time delivery and maintaining overall project ownership related to supplier selection, delivery, cost, risks, and opportunities. Develop timelines and ensure tracking of progress to plan, while clearly communicating critical project achievements and/or risks. Take ownership of supply base commercials, ensuring contracts are in place and maintained to support delivery requirements. Develop a cohesive team to support departmental workload with seamless alignment to input/output functions in the business. Core Competencies and Experience Required Skills and Experience: Project Management: Proficiency in initiating, planning, executing, controlling, and closing projects to achieve specific goals and meet success criteria. Supply Chain Knowledge: Familiarity with systems like Factory Master, ERP, MRP, and experience delivering activities, information, and resources from supplier to customer. Supply Chain Project Management: Experience in maintaining supply chains, managing commercial agreements, collaborating on intercompany approvals, and assessing supplier quality. Proposal Cost Analysis: Ability to perform data-led trend assessments to support initial proposal development and firm proposal submissions. Supplier Onboarding and Risk Management: Experience in commercial risk alignment, contract negotiation, and budget control through value-for-money assessments. Supply Chain Coordination: Skills in improving supply chain performance by aligning supplier plans and objectives, and monitoring via KPIs. Supply Chain Strategy: Working experience in evaluating the cost-benefit trade-offs of operational components. Demand Planning: Proficiency in creating reliable forecasts to support ongoing programme modelling. Supply Chain Solutions: Continuous improvement activities with high-cost, high-risk suppliers. Cross-Functional Team Building: Experience in inclusive decision making and obtaining buy-in during escalations. Personal Attributes A problem solver with strong lateral thinking skills. Flexible, takes initiative, and easily adapts. High attention to detail. Committed and dedicated to quality, ensuring customer requirements are met. Tenacious in meeting deadlines. Application Process To apply, please submit your resume and a cover letter detailing your relevant experience and why you are the ideal candidate for this position. Applications can be sent to . Unfortunately, our client is unable to offer sponsorship of any kind for this position. All candidates must have the right to live and work in the UK and hold a passport that would allow for travel if required
Seeking a Project Manager to join a Global Logistics business, leading key processes and deliverables for the communities supporting Delivery Service Partners and Freight Partners. Enhancing engagement, advocacy and business success within supply chain by building digital communities that connect, inform and inspire entrepreneurs and business owners. Responsibilities: Oversee project management and metrics Manage community and user access Stakeholder management Developing roadmaps Delivering insights Regular interaction with senior leadership. Experience: Project management experience, end to end from idea to development. Comfortable with data, tracking progress and insight reporting. Building relationships with customers, strong people skills are essential. Degree in business, communications would be advantageous. Logistics/Supply chain experience highly beneficial. Please Note: This role will require 2-3 days in the London HQ, for an initial 9 month contract, paid on a daily rate PAYE holiday. Morgan McKinley is acting as an Employment Agency and references to pay rates are indicative. BY APPLYING FOR THIS ROLE YOU ARE AGREEING TO OUR TERMS OF SERVICE WHICH TOGETHER WITH OUR PRIVACY STATEMENT GOVERN YOUR USE OF MORGAN MCKINLEY SERVICES.
Amazon's Supply Chain Managers play a central role in our global business. They keep our complex, international supply chains working seamlessly and efficiently. As a Supply Chain Manager (SCM), you will work closely with multiple stakeholders across Amazon, from Operational teams who are fulfilling customer orders to Retail teams and everything in between. You'll help us optimise our supply chains to make our customer experience even better and our business more energy and cost efficient. Key job responsibilities Deliver complex programs within the Amazon Freight Operations. Find structural simple solutions to complicated problems without sacrificing shipper experience or core functionality, spot and assess risks, escalate appropriately. Define supply chain and operating models for various businesses Analyse and interpret data to improve efficiency across supply chains and multiple operations Partner with teams to advise on and manage operational challenges Support the planning and organisation of complex projects Own simultaneous support of several strategic projects at a time, being a single point of contact from Amazon Freight Operations side during design, testing and piloting stages of projects, eventually switching projects to business as usual. Implement and own reporting mechanisms for strategic projects and new workstreams via metrics and newsletters, along with ad hoc reporting and analytical deep-dives Influence diverse stakeholders with different priorities. Partnering with commercial, product and finance teams to ensure efficient and on-time program implementation. Interacting with Amazon Freight North America and wider Surface Transportation teams to align on best practices and growth ideas. Effectively communicate program milestones, requirements, vision verbally and in writing to Amazon Freight leadership and stakeholders. A day in the lifeBeing a Supply Chain Manager for Amazon involves lots of problem solving. You'll work with a number of teams to navigate challenges as and when situations impact our network. You'll spend time resolving temporary issues and looking at the bigger picture to drive Amazon towards achieving new objectives. This role is both proactive and reactive, and you'll have the opportunity to help forecast and plan for new projects. As a Supply Chain Manager, you'll need to help with both on-the-ground tasks and more tactical work. No two days will be the same. You could spend one day helping to define our supply chain and operating models and the next assisting with a site's resource plan for a busy period. Having so much variety in your role means you'll be able to learn something new every day. You'll encourage and support your teams and colleagues to meet important deliverables, while proactively looking for new, data-backed ways we could do things better. Your work will be integral to your team's success. About the teamAmazon Freight Europe is a transportation service provider for external shippers that uses the logistics network we built for Amazon to deliver freight safely, on time and at competitive costs. We offer shippers access to the same network of carriers, technology infrastructure and tools that Amazon uses to move thousands of loads daily. Businesses of all sizes have access to the costs and levels of service of one of the largest shippers in the world. Amazon Freight spins Amazon's broader flywheel by helping minimize empty miles by bringing in freight that flows complementary to our existing network.Amazon Freight Operations (AF Ops) is the Pan- European team that handles Amazon Freight's Shipper Support and Transportation Execution. We are responsible for planning and scheduling the transport orders placed by our customers (Shippers), and providing them with support at each step of their journey. We play a critical role in ensuring the smooth functioning of Amazon Freight's European transportation network and have a direct impact on Shipper Experience.We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:London, GBR BASIC QUALIFICATIONS - A degree- Relevant experience leading cross-functional programmes or projects using project-management methodologies- Relevant experience in analysing data and creating reports for leadership- Relevant experience of communicating with a wide range of stakeholders, including your peers and leadership- Relevant experience in managing multiple projects with competing deadlines- Advanced proficiency in verbal and written English PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS - A degree in a science, technology, engineering or mathematics-related subject or MBA- Project-management qualification such as PRINCE2, APM, PMI, or similar- Understanding of continuous improvement methodologies such as Six Sigma or Lean- Experience working in an operational environment or with technical teams- Relevant experience in a supply chain, logistics, e-commerce, or transportation planning role- Experience using data visualisation software, such as Tableau or QuicksightAmazon is an equal opportunities employer. 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