Description

Primary role function is the provision of support to Supply Chain capability.

Working as a member of the line of business Supply Chain team to provide Supply Chain expertise, services, support to meet the operational needs of line management and the business.

The role involves working within a clearly defined framework, and requires knowledge and understanding of Supply Chain principles, techniques and practices.

The Supply Chain Professional role will involve:

            Working within Procurement and Supply Chain team to ensure the timely satisfaction of customer demands for tasks, spares and repairs during the support phase of a programme.  Provision of key service, influencing the achievement of contractual Key Performance Indicators.

            Application of knowledge of professional supply chain principles and practices, technologies and the programme to deliver service in accordance with line of business requirements.  Understanding of the impact and implications of decisions made to business stakeholders, customers and suppliers.

            Working with Procurement and Supply Chain representatives, cross-functional stakeholders and the customer to ensure the appropriate movement of goods (including customer furnished equipment) through the forward (customer facing) and reverse (supplier facing) supply chain; ensuring specialist requirements are addressed.

            Proactively manage instances of under-performance within the supply chain providing feedback to the project, Procurement team, and Procurement and Supply Chain Manager.

            Seeks opportunities for continuous improvement.  

            Receiving goods into stores, completing receipt records, locating spares into appropriate locations. Effective maintenance of the stock management system.

            Ensuring timely and accurate picking and packing of spares; raising the necessary delivery paperwork for despatch.

            Processing customer RFQs and demands, preparing and submitting quotations, raising purchasing requisitions.

Resolving customer queries, updating and maintaining records.

Liaising with other functions, such as engineering, to co-ordinant issue, value-add and subsequent receipt of modified parts into the stores

Essential skills required;

            Knowledge of the RFX processes.  (Processing customer RFQs and demands, preparing and submitting quotations, raising purchasing requistions)

            Knowledge of Asset Management processes and systems.

            Experience of managing goods in systems and knowledge of stock  management systems.

Resolving customer queries, updating and maintaining records.

Business Expertise

            Has knowledge of the Company structure, its procedures and general areas of focus.

            Works with other functional representatives and/or customers and suppliers to meet operational needs of line management and the business, and to ensure that quality, cost and delivery considerations are factored into procurement and supply chain decisions.

            Understand their stakeholders (internal and external) and ensure the relationship is maintained and demonstrates good collaboration. Understands how to monitor and address under-performance with stakeholders.

Problem Solving

            Works within defined processes, procedures and guidelines.

            Analyse information and select solutions that best meet the requirements of the business.

            Ability to resolve problems on own accord or escalate to Manager when appropriate.

            Make best use of resources available to minimise time to resolve issues, time being an important factor to ensure optimum delivery performance.

Interpersonal Skills

            Able to communicate and influence across the immediate team.

            Able to influence other stakeholders in DI programmes and functions.

            Willing to adapt and deal with different scenarios when dealing directly with Procurement or Supply Chain matters.

            Influence others to ensure barriers are removed to allow best opportunity to manage on time deliveries to the project.

            Creative and willing to contribute to group workshops and continuous improvement initiatives.

            Accuracy and attention to detail essential.

Recognising the restricted nature of the work  there is a requirement for the candidate to be eligible to obtain Security Clearance for this role.