Supply Chain Platform Manager

Supply Chain Platform Manager – 12 month contract – Portsmouth Naval Base – £37.61 ph UMB or £28ph PAYE (Inside IR35)

Reporting to the Fleet Time Engineering (FTE) Supply Chain Programme Manager, responsible for providing leadership and direction for all supply chain activities within complex £1m–£10m per annum ship repair programmes. The Supply Chain Platform Manager will be responsible for ensuring all materials and services are planned and subsequently available as required to support programme requirements, including maintenance tasks, capability insertions, and the materials and services required.

• Lead all supply chain activities within the FTE programme, providing bid support, strategic development, operational performance management, tactical issue resolution, and ensuring project revenue, budget performance and customer satisfaction targets are achieved.
• Manage the project life‑cycle, ensuring supply‑chain outputs are met, e.g. bid deliverables, internal bid approval inputs, phase reviews, design / technical reviews as required by the programmes.
• Financially plan and achieve the financial objectives for orders, sales, margin and cash, contributing to the overall business integrated business plan for current and future periods as required.
• Serve as the prime point of contact for all project‑related contract management and procurement issues and liaise with the Procurement Manager and team for material and sub‑contracted services to address reported issues.
• Develop an approach to manage supply‑chain status, performance, and critical issues within a shared project and functional management structure.
• Ensure known supply‑chain risks are understood within the programme and mitigation plans are agreed, protecting the commercial interests of the company and, where necessary, captured in either the programme or supply‑chain risk registers.
• Act as a change agent for supply‑chain within the project environment, assisting in the education and communications of the strategies developed.
• Manage the supply‑chain project performance, budget and risk and report into the project contract review pack.
• Establish and maintain strong relationships with all key internal and external stakeholders (customers, suppliers, functional peers), maintaining regular communication and managing expectations.
• Lead effective communications and employee engagement to foster a culture of openness, feedback, two‑way dialogue and honesty to ensure people are aware and engaged in their delivery contribution.
• Provide regular progress reports against deliverables and ensure appropriate support to supplier performance reviews, and provide supplier performance information to relevant stakeholders, including customer and ship staff reviews.
• Agree and implement supply‑chain KPIs for the programme.

• Supply chain best practice knowledge and experience.
• Comprehensive experience of theories and practices within supply chain, supplier relationship management and sustainable procurement.
• Experience managing UK MoD customers and supply chains within a naval or maritime domain.
• Proven track record of development and delivery of large programmes within a matrix organisation.
• Supply chain function's people, process and enabling technologies to exceed or meet the programme business objectives.
• Major programmes / project procurement management experience.
• Experience managing and leading supply‑chain activities within cross‑functional programmes.
• Awareness of MOD/Navy supply chain processes and procedures.
• Experience as a supply‑chain lead within an organisation of an equivalent size and scope.
• In‑depth knowledge of logistics and supply‑chain management practices.