Supply Chain Officer

Southampton, United Kingdom Posted on 09/04/2025

Responsible for coordinating and developing a group of suppliers to successfully meet the quality, cost, and delivery requirements for the Company and ensure accuracy, efficiency, and consistency to achieve best in class operations.

Key Job Responsibilities

• Ensure boat materials/services are purchased in line with business requirements and authorised Company processes at the lowest total cost of ownership.
• Be the business focal point and subject expert for given commodities.
• Develop commodity strategies for critical supply commodities by:

• Understanding the category and what the risks cost drivers are and identify opportunities within the category.
• Driving cost reduction and establishing the best purchase prices for the commodities.
• Ensuring that the quality of product purchased meets the exacting standards of Oyster Yachts.

• Build and maintain strong vendor relationships, fostering partnerships that drive long-term value and innovation.
• First line responsibility for the commercial relationship with the supplier group, ensuring commercial agreements are in place with strategic and preferred supply partners.
• First line responsibility for the performance management of the supplier group to ensure quality and delivery expectations are being met, with quality function support.
• Work with the supplier group / wider business to identify opportunities for improvements, reductions in cost, process efficiencies, specification updates, and innovations.
• Identify risk profiles and support risk mitigation activities and recovery planning where required and communicate with interested parties.
• Support market benchmarking / make versus buy activities.
• Provision of management reports, KPI's and detailed data views to provide insight and support decision making.
• Support operations improvement projects across the group working closely with Supply Chain counterparts and other stakeholders.

Knowledge

• Working knowledge of supply chain/procurement processes.
• Knowledge of marine industry desirable but not essential.
• Understanding of yacht production and associated materials and parts, desirable.

Skills

• Competent user of Microsoft Office, in particular Teams, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
• Strong relationship builder.
• Strong communication skills both telephone, email, and face to face.
• Planning and organising skills.
• Strong analytical skills and able to manipulate data sets and present in table/chart form.

Experience

• Worked within purchasing in the marine industry or manufacturing.
• Comprehensive experience/user of an ERP or similar.
• Experience in a purchasing, supply chain, or inventory management role.
• Experience of negotiations with suppliers.
• Supplier relationship management.

Qualifications

• CIPS qualification or working towards but not essential.

Personal Characteristics

• Technically curious.
• Problem-solving.
• Thrives in a fast-paced environment.

Other Requirements

• Driving license, desirable.
• Able to travel when required across sites / to supply partners.