Strategic Supply Chain Manager

Moog’s Turreted Weapons System business in the UK (TWS-UK) is seeking a Strategic Supply Chain Manager to lead high‑impact sourcing initiatives across our supply chain. The role involves owning the development and execution of strategic sourcing strategies, driving long‑term supplier partnerships, negotiating complex agreements, and influencing stakeholders at all levels.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic vision and lead the design and delivery of the TWS‑UK supply chains, ensuring redundancy, scalability, and cross‑functional capabilities.
• Execute the full strategic sourcing lifecycle: strategy development, supplier identification and evaluation, spend and market analysis, and negotiation of long‑term agreements covering pricing, terms and conditions, delivery schedules, and quality standards.
• Provide strategic insights and recommendations to senior leadership, including performance trends and opportunities to strengthen the supply chain.
• Influence cross‑functional stakeholders and facilitate supplier engagement sessions to align requirements, mitigate risks, and drive measurable outcomes.
• Conduct global market research to identify competitive, capable, and sustainable suppliers that enhance business value and support diversity initiatives.
• Run RFQs and assess supplier capabilities, risk, cost structure and service models with a focus on total cost of ownership.
• Lead all site and cross‑site TWS‑UK supply chain activities.
• Build and manage strategic supplier partnerships that enhance capability, cost competitiveness and long‑term business advantage.
• Develop supply channels, KPIs and improvement initiatives that strengthen TCO, support continuous improvement, foster innovation and reduce supply chain risk.
• Monitor supplier performance through KPIs, audits and corrective actions while ensuring compliance with laws, regulations, policies and contractual obligations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Supply Chain, Finance, Accounting or a related field.
• At least 10 years of progressive experience in supply chain, production engineering, or project management, with preference for operations experience.
• Strong negotiation skills and working knowledge of procurement and contractual law.
• Excellent understanding of contractual requirements, business systems and supply chain processes.
• Determined, resilient and capable of establishing a new function appropriate to the BU requirement.
• Innovation or early‑stage business creation experience demonstrating a frontier mentality and ability to translate basic requirements into strategic vision.
• (Preferred) Professional certifications in Purchasing or Supply Chain.
• (Preferred) Master’s degree in Business or a related field.
• (Preferred) Previous experience creating a new business supply chain of complex components in Mechanical, Electronic and Software domains.

Benefits

• Career progression opportunities and learning and development programs.
• Flexible Benefits Package.
• 33 days annual leave (including bank holidays).
• Private medical insurance, mental health support and expert financial advice.
• Free parking, electric car charging, onsite gym.
• Generous life assurance, company pension contribution starting at 6%, employee share option.
• Flexible hybrid working arrangements.

Moog is an equal‑opportunity employer. We value diversity, equity, and inclusion.

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