Supply Chain Manager
Reporting to: Finance Director
Location - Barking, London
Main purpose of job
- Direct or coordinate production, purchasing, warehousing and distribution to limit costs and improve accuracy, customer service and safety.
- Examine existing procedures or opportunities for streamlining activities to meet product distribution needs.
- Direct the movement, storage, or processing of inventory.
Main Duties and Tasks:
- Review or update supply chain practices in accordance with new or changing environmental policies, standards, regulations, or laws.
- Select transportation routes to maximize economy by combining shipments or consolidating warehousing and distribution.
- Negotiate prices and terms with suppliers, vendors and transport providers.
- Monitor forecasts and quotas to identify changes or to determine their effect on supply chain activities.
- Meet with suppliers.
- Implement new or improved supply chain processes.
- Collaborate with other departments, such as sales and quality assurance, to identify or qualify new suppliers.
- Confer with sales department to forecast demand or create supply plans that ensure availability of materials or products.
- Define performance metrics for measurement, comparison, or evaluation of supply chain factors, such as product cost or quality.
- Analyze inventories to determine how to increase inventory turns, reduce waste, or optimize customer service.
- Participate in the coordination of engineering changes, product line extensions, or new product launches to ensure orderly and timely transitions in material or production flow.
- Develop procedures for coordination of supply chain management with other functional areas, such as sales, marketing, finance, production, or quality assurance.
- Identify opportunities to reuse or recycle materials to minimize consumption of new materials, minimize waste, or to convert wastes to by-products.
- Locate or select biodegradable, non-toxic, or other environmentally friendly raw materials and end products.
For more information about this role please apply, or email Kelly Blanchard on kblanchard@pg-rec.com who will be able to provide more details on the opportunity.
Many thanks, Premier Group