Supply Chain Manager

Benefits:
Pension Salary Sacrifice Scheme, Life Assurance, Cycle to Work Scheme, Company Sick Pay, Corporate Eyecare vouchers, Health Care Cashplan

IrvinGQ is a world-leading supplier of parachutes, aerial delivery systems and naval decoys to customers around the world. We create innovative products that our customers know they can rely on in highly challenging conditions where there are no second chances. Our systems must work right first time, every time. If you want to be part of a collaborative and supportive team that helps customers achieve their goals through great engineering that stands out from the crowd and are looking for your next challenge, then we want to hear from you!

The Supply Chain Manager is responsible for leading the end-to-end supply chain, production planning, material availability and supplier performance activities required to support IrvinGQ’s operational delivery, customer commitments and growth objectives. The role will ensure that materials, purchased parts, subcontract activity and production plans are aligned to demand, inventory targets, customer delivery requirements and business performance metrics.

Reporting into the Senior Operations Manager you will work closely with Operations, Sales, Engineering, Quality, Finance, Project Management and Business Unit teams to maintain on-time delivery, low past dues, optimise inventory, strengthen supplier performance and support productivity improvement across the business.

• Lead through visibly demonstrating and instilling our culture.
• Champion IrvinGQ’s values and contribute positively to a culture of accountability, teamwork, continuous improvement and customer focus.
• Lead the Supply Chain and Planning function, ensuring clear priorities, accountability and alignment with operational and business unit requirements.
• Develop and maintain robust processes for purchasing, supplier management, material planning, production planning and inventory control.
• Drive a culture of urgency, ownership, continuous improvement and cross-functional problem solving.
• Support the development of team capability through coaching, performance management and succession planning.

• Own the sales, inventory, supply and production planning processes required to support customer demand and business plan delivery.
• Ensure loaded customer demand has the required raw material, purchased parts and subcontract support available in line with production schedules.
• Identify, communicate and escalation material risks, capacity constraints and supplier issues that may impact customer delivery or revenue recognition.
• Work with Operations and Business Unit teams to establish clear build plans, recovery plans and priorities for high-value or time-critical programmes.

• Manage supplier performance, including on-time delivery, quality, responsiveness, cost, lead time and risk mitigation.
• Establish clear supplier improvement plans where performance does not meet business requirements.
• Support strategic sourcing, dual sourcing, low-cost country sourcing and Make vs Buy activities where they improve continuity of supply, productivity or EBITDA performance.
• Ensure purchasing activity is commercially robust, compliant with business processes and aligned with operational priorities.

• Own inventory accuracy, inventory profile planning and material availability across the supply chain.
• Reduce excess, obsolete and inactive stock while protecting customer delivery and production continuity.
• Review safety stock, reorder points, lead times and supplier stockholding arrangements to optimise working capital.
• Use ERP data,…