Loadhog Supply Chain Manager

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Supply Chain Manager

Are you an experienced supply chain lead, or experienced supply chain manager looking for your next step? Do you have experience in a fast moving, JIT delivery and production environment? With a global customer base? Do you have excellent leadership and analytical skills and a strong ethos of continuous improvement? If this begins to describe you, then this exciting and challenging new opportunity may be right for you.

What is the role?

Reporting to the Operations Director, through the management of all supply chain activities across our UK manufacturing site. You will have full ownership of, and responsibility for the supply chain function, which will include leading the purchasing, inventory, warehousing and internal sales teams in the UK and working very closely with our subsidiary businesses. The role will cover the following:

Inventory Management: using all the tools available, ensuring the right stock is in place at suppliers, global locations and customers. Reviewing regularly, meeting aggressive stock efficiency targets and reducing working capital where possible. Driving the adoption and integration of the new company ERP system to increase stock accuracy and drive process efficiency in all supply chain activities.

Supplier Management: working with an existing small and dedicated supplier base to ensure ongoing delivery and quality performance, to carry out risk analysis and guarantee continuity of supply and to drive continuous improvement activities.

Planning and Performance: working with the internal sales team to analyse historical trends and forecasted data to drive key planning decisions throughout the supply chain, affecting production planning, availability of product for major sales projects and setting and achieving appropriate stock targets throughout the year.

Logistics: Ensuring 100% material availability at the point of use for all production teams and sites in the UK, working with your UK team and global counterparts to optimise service levels and costs from transport providers.

New Products: development and implementation of the necessary supply chain activities to support the introduction of new products including, packaging optimisation, inventory planning and new supplier selection and validation. Analysis, rationalisation and obsolescence of ranges, products and variants at the end of their life.

Vertical Integration: To continually review the supply of all materials and components with a view to introducing internal manufacture where customer service, quality or efficiency improvements can be realised.

Who you are

To be considered for this challenging and often demanding role, you must be experienced in negotiation with a proven track record of forming and developing supplier partnerships and have the ability to challenge current practices and apply continuous improvement techniques throughout the supply chain.

You must also:

• Be a passionate people person with a drive to support your team to excel
• Have excellent project management skills
• Possess a proven track record of delivering sourcing initiatives and sourcing savings
• Be computer literate with an advanced knowledge of ERP systems
• Be a strong team player with an ability to influence through collaboration
• Extremely organised with an ability to work calmly and rationally under pressure
• An excellent communicator with good customer service skills
• Able to display the Loadhog Edge qualities;

To work with integrity and professionalism in a highly confidential environment, have the passion to do your very best and a sense of ownership of both the role and the business. Innovation will be at your core as you bring new ideas and ways of working to the team and you will be unafraid to challenge both yourself and others. You will have an ability to engage with and energise people at all levels of the business and work as a team with colleagues to make Loadhog an amazing place to work. Finally, you will be committed to support our local community, to have fun and make positive changes.

Who are Loadhog?

Multi award-winning Loadhog designs and manufactures returnable packaging solutions for a diverse range of industries, from manufacturing, postal to retail. Our employee-owned business is highly entrepreneurial, with all employees joining the company purchasing shares, thereby creating employee engagement, individual wealth and a strong team spirit.

Headquartered in Sheffield, United Kingdom, along with a site in Europe, we are known for our market leading RTP innovations. We continue to invest in new products and manufacturing capacity, having a target to deliver 25% of our turnover from products less than five years old.

We have set a challenging vision for our business and we have been on track for the last 4 years. We take pride in doing things differently; that is why we challenge over 250 employees across the world to stamp their own footprint on our company values: the 'Loadhog Edge'.

What we offer

The benefits package includes a basic salary, 15% non-contributory pension, life assurance, private medical cover, Paycare, permanent health insurance, gym membership and a share purchase scheme. You are expected to become a stakeholder in the business, which entitles, and indeed, requires you to challenge, offer ideas, take the initiative, and contribute to positive change.

Get in touch

To apply, applicants should submit their CV, along with a covering letter explaining reasons for applying via the following link: https://gripple.peoplehr.net/Pages/JobBoard/Opening.aspx?v=49204d16-3eee...

Deadline for applications: 16th December 2024

A polite note for recruitment agencies:We do not accept applicants from recruitment agencies. If we do need support, we will be in touch!