Senior Supply Chain Manager
Posted 7 hours 28 minutes ago by 1st Executive Ltd
Location: Barrow in Furness (Hybrid & Flexible Working Available). Salary: Up to £65,000 Car Allowance + Excellent Benefits
This is your opportunity to take ownership within a high tech defence manufacturing environment, delivering at scale on one of the UK's most complex and strategically significant programmes. Work on a long term, nationally significant programme with real world impact. Joining a stable, well funded environment with long term career growth and progression. If you're an experienced supply chain professional ready to step into a high impact leadership role, this is where your expertise will shape outcomes on a national scale.
What's In It For You- Competitive salary + car allowance
- Strong pension offering
- Private healthcare and wellbeing benefits
- Flexible benefits including green car schemes and lifestyle discounts
- Annual incentive opportunities
- Relocation support available (subject to eligibility)
You'll take the lead across a critical supplier landscape, ensuring delivery, performance, and strategic alignment across a major programme.
- Lead and inspire a team of supply chain professionals, managers and subcontractors to deliver against an ambitious supply chain strategy
- Own and manage a portfolio of business critical suppliers, ensuring performance, resilience and value
- Build powerful relationships across internal functions and external partners to drive programme success
- Negotiate complex, high value contracts within regulated defence and government frameworks
- Develop and execute robust Contract Management Plans that ensure control, compliance and continuous improvement
- Hold accountability for supplier performance-past, present and future-ensuring delivery against key metrics
You're already operating at a senior level and thrive in complex, high stakes environments.
- 5+ years' experience in procurement or supply chain within large scale programmes, defence manufacturing or major subcontracting environments
- Strong track record in contract strategy, negotiation and supplier management
- Proven leadership capability - able to build, develop and motivate high performing teams
- Commercially astute, confident operating within structured and regulated frameworks with a mindset that values collaboration, innovation and diversity of thought
Applicants must be based in the UK to commit to the hybrid working requirement and hold current/valid UK RTW. All applicants must, as a minimum, achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard/security vetting checks.