Supply Chain Director

Job Title and Compensation

Supply Chain Director:
Leading Global Food service Business: A GBP 150K + Benefits.

My client is a leading global food service business with a great reputation. They are seeking a Supply Chain Director to join their team. The successful supply chain director will lead their end-to-end supply chain strategy and execution, being responsible for driving supply chain performance across procurement, planning, logistics, supplier partnerships, inventory optimisation, and operational resilience in a fast paced, multi site environment.

The successful candidate will combine strategic vision with operational excellence, ensuring best in class service, cost efficiency, food quality, and supply continuity across a complex network.

This is an exciting position perfect for a talented supply chain director to join an established business who can offer genuine career progression opportunities.

• Develop and execute a global supply chain strategy aligned with commercial and operational goals.
• Drive continuous improvement across planning, sourcing, logistics, distribution, and inventory management.
• Lead supply chain transformation initiatives, including digitalisation, forecasting capability, and process optimisation.
• Build scalable and resilient supply models to support growth across international markets.
• Lead strategic supplier partnerships to ensure continuity, quality, sustainability, and cost competitiveness.
• Negotiate major supplier agreements and optimise commercial performance.
• Strengthen supplier risk management and contingency planning.
• Oversee inbound logistics, warehousing, and distribution performance across multiple regions.
• Ensure best in class service levels, OTIF performance, and cost control.
• Drive efficiencies in transportation and network optimisation.
• Improve forecasting accuracy and S & OP capability.
• Optimise inventory levels to balance service, waste reduction, and working capital performance.
• Ensure robust planning processes to support seasonal and market demand fluctuations.
• Lead, inspire, and develop a high performing supply chain team.

• Proven senior leadership experience in supply chain, logistics, procurement, or operations.
• Experience with in food service, FMCG, retail, hospitality, or related sectors.
• Proven success managing large scale, multi site or international supply chain operations.
• Strong commercial acumen and supplier negotiation capability.
• Expertise in S & OP, forecasting, inventory management, and logistics optimisation.
• Demonstrated experience leading transformation and continuous improvement initiatives.
  
  Strong analytical capability with a data driven approach to decision making.
• Exceptional stakeholder engagement and leadership skills.