Rochdale
£85,000 – £95,000 + bonus and benefits
Overview
This long-established business is a UK textile company that supplies high quality fabrics for interiors. Specialising in soft furnishing fabrics including curtain linings, blackout fabrics, upholstery and decorative textiles, their products are adopted in a range of sectors including hospitality, healthcare, retail and education.
Following an organisational structure review, they are now looking to appoint a highly accomplished Supply Chain Director to lead the Supply Chain Planning team consisting of 6 staff.
This is an office based role so applicants will need to be within a viable radius of Rochdale.
Key Responsibilities
- This newly created role will report to the MD and have responsibility for stock management, OTIF, obsolescence and product life cycles.
- Overseeing a SKU count of around 7000, manage activities of forecasting and planning a wide SKU base.
- Provide vision and direction for the development of the overall business strategy as well as for demand and supply planning to drive forecast accuracy.
- Through the Planning Manager, lead key customer collaboration to improve overall supply chain performance and service levels.
- Own finance and performance management for the Supply Chain department developing budgets and establishing and driving KPIs.
- Hold overall responsibility for site operations including warehousing, logistics and facilities.
Person Specification
- CIPS Level 5 qualified or similar and an established Supply Chain leader with strong strategic capabilities and management skills that enable strategic visions to be rolled out across a supply chain operations team.
- Experience from the textiles industry would be beneficial although close consideration will be given to those with an aligned background and used to working in a fast-paced challenging, high SKU and dynamic environment.
- Detailed track record of experience in global supply chain and inventory management with a bias on inventory control, planning and forecasting.
- A charismatic and influential leader who is used to running Supply Chain teams in a global supply chain context.
- Conversant with shipping direct from global supply bases and import and shipping compliance and processes.
- Possess a really detailed understanding of the key indicators in stock management and control, planning and forecasting.
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All applicants must have an unrestricted right to work in the UK as our client will not support visa sponsorship for this role.
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