Senior Manager, Supply Chain & Operations

Senior Manager, Supply Chain & Operations

Location: London

Key Responsibilities

• Build, maintain and strengthen relationships and be a trusted advisor in at least one area of supply chain (operations, planning, procurement, manufacturing, etc).
• Be adept at problem solving with clients and project teams, leveraging your skills to help manage projects to completion.
• Develop experience and relationships across several clients over time, often as part of a team from different parts of EY's world, whilst being able to maintain focus on current project delivery.
• Contribute to the development of proposals to showcase leading practices.
• Engage the market with thought leadership and public profile, and contribute to enhancing methodologies.
• Work across internal sector and account field of play teams to develop your network, bringing expertise to bear.
• Support successful delivery of projects and workstreams to be forecast to time and budget.
• Help ensure the quality of our delivery exceeds client expectations by effectively managing activities and deliverables within your remit.
• Manage and nurture those who work with you and undertake career counselling responsibilities.
• Become an inclusive leader capable of forming diverse high performing teams that are enjoyable to be part of and help consultant and client teams to develop and realise their potential.

Experience

Senior Managers must have practical experience from a Big 4 or consultancy where you have developed your technical and management experience. Experience will be valued across several sectors including Consumer Products & Retail, Energy & Resources, Manufacturing, Health & Life Sciences, and Telecommunication, Media & Entertainment.

Our Senior Managers are required to possess good experience in at least one of the technical skills listed below and some experience across one or multiple others.

Technical Skills

• Supply Chain Transformation - End to end supply chain transformation, experience working on multiple transformation projects with considerable scope and scale. Demonstrable knowledge of working as part of the transformation including the design, setup and delivery including people, process and technological change.
• Digital Supply Chain / Supply Chain Technology - Applying and implementing Supply Chain Technology, such as planning, manufacturing and procurement systems. Including next generation supply chain technologies such as Robotic Process Automation, cognitive automation and AI.
• Supply Chain Planning - Functional experience in demand and supply planning, sales & operations planning, segmentation strategy, inventory optimisation and/or production scheduling. Technology experience may include one or more: OMP, Kinaxis, o9, Aera, SAP IBP, Blue Yonder, and SAP S/4 HANA.
• Commercial & Procurement - Strategic, operational or transactional procurement across the purchasing lifecycle. Includes procurement strategy, operating model, category management, strategic sourcing, contract management or deployment of procurement technology and analytics. Focus areas include managing complex end to end procurements; driving cost out of organisation's third party spend and conducting contract audits; leveraging enterprise level technology to standardise, automate and digitise supply chain. Experience in deploying SAP Ariba is also sought.
• Operating Model Transformation - End to end operating model experience covering strategy and vision, design, transformation and implementation. Can come from an external consulting perspective or within an industry role.
• Supply Chain Strategy - Operating model design, segmentation strategy and inventory optimisation. Understanding issues across the end to end supply chain and potential solutions to improve performance.

Qualifications

Professional body membership or qualifications such as Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply (CIPS), International Association of Commercial & Contract Management (IACCM), or equivalent, are highly regarded. Demonstrated skills that are additive to the team are also welcomed.

Benefits

EY is committed to being an inclusive employer and offers flexible working arrangements to help achieve a lifestyle balance. While client facing professionals may travel regularly, flexible arrangements support this. We offer a competitive remuneration package and a comprehensive Total Rewards package, including support for flexible working and career development. FlexEY allows you to select benefits that suit your needs, covering holidays, health and well being, insurance, savings and a range of discounts, offers and promotions.

Additional benefits include:

• Continuous learning - You'll develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next.
• Success as defined by you - We'll provide tools, flexibility and support to make a meaningful impact in your own way.
• Transformative leadership - Coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs.
• Diverse and inclusive culture - You'll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.

Equal Opportunity

Prior to finalizing your application, you will be asked to provide personal information across several dimensions of diversity and inclusiveness. The information you provide is kept entirely confidential and will not be used to evaluate your candidacy. We collect this data to help us analyse our recruitment process holistically and implement actions that promote diversity and inclusiveness. While optional, we encourage you to provide this information to hold us accountable towards our goal of building a better working world.

If you meet the criteria above, please contact us as soon as possible.