The Barbour story began in 1894 in South Shields in the North East of England. Founder John Barbour began supplying oilskins and other garments to protect the growing community of sailors, fishermen and dockers. Still family owned and now fifth generation, Barbour HQ remains in South Shields. Under the leadership of Chairman Dame Margaret Barbour, Barbour has grown into a lifestyle brand sold in over 55 countries worldwide including Europe, the US and Asia offering a wardrobe of stylish functional clothing, footwear and accessories inspired by the unique values of the British countryside. The iconic Barbour Bedale and Barbour Beaufort wax jackets continue to be made by hand in the factory in South Shields. In 2020, Barbour launched Wax for Life, an overarching name for all of Barbour’s wax services designed to encourage customers to extend the life of their wax garments. Wax for Life includes re-waxing and repairs (first introduced in 1921) and Barbour Re-Loved an upcycling circularity initiative. Each year over 70,000 wax garments are sent back to Barbour globally to be repaired, re-waxed or altered.
Position Overview:
We have an exciting opportunity for a Supply Chain Coordinator to join our Supply Chain team based at our Head Office in South Shields. The purpose of this role is to assist in the control and delivery of your category product range, to ensure finished goods are supplied from our international supply base to our worldwide distribution centres, to the agreed quantities, costs and timelines.
The role will:
- Achieve “on time” delivery for product Purchase Orders.
- Raise Purchase Orders, plan, monitor, re-prioritise and expedite.
- Ensure the Business System data accurately reflects production plans and delivery schedules.
- Liaise with factories and freight forwarders to arrange cost and time efficient shipping
- Ensure key samples are ordered and delivered on time.
*The expectation for this role is 4 days onsite at our Head Office in South Shields and 1 day of home working*
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Ensure Purchase Orders are raised accurately and in a timely manner.
- Liaise with Tech teams/QA teams to highlight priorities and ensure key milestones within the critical path are met.
- Monitor Purchase Orders progress with regular Supplier meetings including factory visits.
- Update and maintain M3 (our Business System) to reflect accurate Purchase Order data.
- Review the POBE to ensure key sales priorities are expedited with Suppliers & freight options are maximised.
- Ensure Purchase Orders are delivered “on time” maximising Customer Order fulfilment.
- Maintain PO plans to reflect true delivery position including capacity constraints, factory closures, holidays, transportation lead times etc.
- Liaise with freight forwarders to review and approve bookings.
- Manage the ordering and delivery of samples for seasonal launches.
Skills and Experience:
- Experience in garment and general procurement is desirable.
- Proven experience of Production Planning.
- Experience of working with freight forwarders.
- Proven experience of building strong working relationships and influencing key stakeholders in order to drive high category performance.
- Experience of dealing with “offshore” suppliers is desirable.
- CIPS Diploma desired but not essential.
- High level of numeracy skills.
- Strong Excel skills with experience of creating formulae and pivot tables.
- Competent level of IT packages: Microsoft Office.
- Excellent communication skills, to build strong relationships internally and externally of department.
- Attention to detail – able to provide accurate information first time.
- Time management skills – to enable effective prioritisation and decision making.
- Ability to work in fast paced and challenging environment.
- Enjoys finding solutions and improving processes.
- Has the ability to “think on your feet” and problem solve effectively.
- Able to prioritise and organise own workload.
- Ability to work independently within a small team.
- Flexibility to be able to travel overseas.
- Discretionary Company bonus scheme
- Staff shop
- 25 days holiday as standard increasing with length of service plus bank holidays
- Access to training and development activities to support your career development
- Free onsite parking
- Subsidised canteen
- Operate hybrid & flexible working
- 4pm finish on a Friday
- Refer a friend bonus scheme
- Reward & Recognition program
- Length of service rewards
Note:
In the event that a sufficient volume of suitable applications are received, the post may close prior to the specified closing date. Please apply as soon as possible if interested.
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