Job Title: Supply Chain Specialist
Location: Reading
Duration: 01/10/2024 - 30/09/2025
Job Description:
We are seeking a dynamic and experienced Supply Chain Specialist to join our team. This role involves providing technical expertise in supply chain management, contributing to best practice processes, and managing approved suppliers. The successful candidate will also be involved in governance, reporting, and maintaining high standards of environment, safety, health, security, and quality.
Key Accountabilities:
- Technical Expertise: Provide specialist knowledge in key areas of supply chain management.
- Best Practice Development: Contribute to the creation and implementation of industry-leading processes and systems.
- System Management: Utilize AWE Business System (AWEBS) and other information management systems to support functional governance.
- Supplier Management: Oversee approved suppliers, maintain supplier records, and conduct due diligence activities.
- Governance: Ensure adherence to supply chain policies and processes, prepare audit materials, and report risks, savings, and benefits.
- Reporting and Analysis: Create and present standard and bespoke business reports, analyses, and presentations.
- Budget and Resource Planning: Maintain functional budgets and resource plans.
- Stakeholder Engagement: Develop and sustain relationships with key internal stakeholders.
- Standards Promotion: Uphold and promote high standards in environment, safety, health, security, and quality.
Key Responsibilities:
- Support Change: Participate in reviews of supply chain management processes and systems, ensuring compliance and providing training.
- Data Management: Maintain and manage supply chain data, including electronic purchasing systems and contractual records.
- Reporting and Governance: Design and deliver performance reports, dashboards, and facilitate governance reviews and audits.
- Training and Awareness: Provide presentations and training to promote supply chain awareness and compliance.
- Risk Management: Identify and manage supply chain risks.
- Budget Management: Oversee supply chain budget and headcount, and prepare annual cost forecasts.
- Continuous Improvement: Gather feedback to support continuous improvement activities.
- Approved Supply Base: Promote and ensure the use of a fully evaluated and approved supply base.
- Query Resolution: Collaborate with stakeholders to resolve supply chain queries promptly.
- Professional Development: Actively seek learning and development opportunities.
- Positive Behaviors: Demonstrate behaviors in line with company standards for environment, sustainability, safety, health, security, quality, and ethics.
Requirements:
- Must be a British Citizen and have resided in the UK for the past five years for SC clearance (ten years for DV).
- Dual nationality may be considered for certain roles.
Join our team and contribute to the success of our supply chain operations by applying your expertise and supporting our commitment to excellence.
Randstad CPE values diversity and promotes equality. No terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate against any of the protected characteristics that fall under the Equality Act 2010. We encourage and welcome applications from all sections of society and are more than happy to discuss reasonable adjustments and/or additional arrangements as required to support your application.
Candidates must be eligible to live and work in the UK.
For the purposes of the Conduct Regulations 2003, when advertising permanent vacancies we are acting as an Employment Agency, and when advertising temporary/contract vacancies we are acting as an Employment Business.
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