Job Title: Supplier Development Manager

Salary: £40,000 - £50,000 depending on experience

Location: Stevenage

Dynamic (hybrid) working: 2 days per week on-site due to workload classification

Security Clearance: British Citizen or a Dual UK national with British citizenship.

The opportunity:

An opportunity has arisen within a leading Defence organisation. The successful candidate will bring their experience and knowledge to ensure effective supplier performance, capability, and risk management. As a team, we work across all programmes in a dynamic environment, managing and implementing both mature and emerging technologies.

What we're looking for from you:

* Ideally a degree calibre Supply Chain professional with experience of international working in high technology companies.

* Experience of supply chain management/ Supplier Development Manager in the Aerospace, Defence or Manufacturing environments.

A proven ability to:

* Demonstrated ability to improve Supplier Performance (Delivery and Quality)using appropriate tools and lean methodologies

* Capable of carrying out capacity audits which will identify key bottlenecks, yield, resources and sub-tier mapping activities to form an industrial view of supplier

* Managing a portfolio of suppliers on a day to day basis and reporting into designated project the performance and manage supply chain risks to closure

* Assess supply chain and suppliers capability to meet delivery profile for both current state vs Future state

* Competent in creating/ validating process flows and lead time analysis

* Conducting analysis and providing/delivering executive summaries