Supply Chain Manager
This role is Hybrid working, so travel to our Stair craft head office based in Coventry is required three times a week!
To set up, establish and continuously review the approach to stock management across the business leading central procurement to support Operations. Develop forecasting tools to understand future demand and ensure continuity of supply and manage the supply base to ensure high levels of availability whilst maintaining efficient levels of stock.
You will also provide reporting for key meetings and relevant functions to provide visibility of stock issues, stock holding and performance. Set improvement targets aligned to the budget and provide challenge and solutions to ensure delivery. Manage stock health including slow moving, end of life and dead stock.
Ensure regular communication with all impacted functions including commercial. Operations and customer service.
Principal Accountabilities
To manage the product supply processes to ensure all orders are placed accurately and timely to drive optimum availability balanced with the requirement to deploy working capital effectively.
To work with Sales, Operations and Finance functions to determine accurate forecasts looking at forward demand, key activities, customer performance and seasonal impact. In conjunction with the Commercial team work with suppliers to ensure availability to meet these requirements.
Support the Commercially driven decisions on sourcing, range and specification change to manage a smooth stock transition ensuring availability for customer orders and managing out end of life stock.
Collate demand and requirements and consolidate orders centrally to place with suppliers working with commercial to look for efficiency and cost savings.
Design, create and manage ad hoc reporting for availability as required by the business. Manage reporting as required in key meetings and to meet functional requirements ensuring visibility of stock holding and areas of issue. Chair a monthly stock meeting to align cross functional actions and requirements.
Work with suppliers to ensure availability providing required forecasts. Measure and manage performance to ensure business and customer requirements are met. Identify areas of pressure and improvement
Support Commercial to Identify opportunities in stock management and supply chain to improve margin, profit, cashflow and customer service.
Work with Operations to improve factory stock count accuracy and manage stock holding within required parameters respecting the balance between capacity, efficiency and availability.
Work on new processes and ways of working across functions to improve stock management.
What you’ll need to have/be:
Previous experience in product supply roles.
Strong analytical and system skills
Experience of developing new processes and ways of working
Ability to manage and develop teams
Track record of delivering improvements and strong performance
Strong communicator
Ability to influence across levels.
Decision making skills
Ability to apply experience to new challenges and requirements
Resilience and tenacity
Stock management & forecasting
Excel and Data management
Can-do attitude
Ability to listen and understand requirements of other functions
What’s in it for you?
Not Sure you Qualify? We’re driving to become a truly inclusive employer, where everyone in our Group feels safe, welcome and confident to be their authentic selves - you be you, it makes us, us, as we say. If you’re interested in this opportunity but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly, we encourage you to apply anyway. You might be just the right candidate for this or other roles with us.
You’ll be supported by some fantastic training and development and have the opportunity to learn, grow and develop across the Travis Perkins Group.
We’ll also equip you with a benefits package that grows as you grow with the company:
A bit about us
As the largest distributor of building materials in the UK, Travis Perkins has been helping to build Britain for over 200 years.
With over 5 businesses, 16,000 colleagues and more than 1,200 branches, stores and sites around the UK we believe we have the best people and the best place to work. Everyone works hard together to deliver results, but most importantly, have some fun along the way!
