Supply Chain Operations Manager

Job Description

Supply Chain Operations Manager

Full Time

Derby/Hybrid working

What you will be doing

You will work impartially to ensure that supply is co-ordinated for the best outcome of Rolls-Royce. Using standard processes, you will be accountable, to operationally drive value stream (supplier to customer) on time delivery by ensuring the plan is executed credibly.

Working with the Operational teams (plants or SMT), Customers and Suppliers you will identify, prioritise, mitigate and resolve delivery issues impacting the customer. You will be accountable for managing the functional drivers of working capital, cash and cost reduction.

Responsibilities

• Provide operational input to support Sales & Operations Planning activities as required.  

• Impartially co-ordinate supply to ensure the best possible customer and business outcome for Rolls-Royce.                                                               

• Lead the operational drive within the business to credibly execute the plans, ensuring delivery of customer requirements. Implement and embed standard delivery processes.           

• Ensure that commitment acceptance is deployed and sustained within the value stream.

• Ensure the ERP system reflects current commitments. Accountable for ERP compliance within the value stream, using the standard, mandated Work Instruction, ensuring robustness of plans through high integrity data.                                                     

• Ensure robust plans are in place to facilitate supplier recovery. Ensure awareness within the value stream of delivery issues, mitigations and recovery plans.                                                  

• Ensure all supply chain risks that have potential to impact delivery are identified, prioritised and escalated, where appropriate, within the wider organisation.

• Through the standard process, ensure root cause analysis is completed for priority parts where the delivery plan has failed.                                                 

• Support appropriate CoP's and process councils, ensuring sharing of best practice and continuous improvement of standard processes. Help identify, document and deliver areas for supply chain improvement.                                 

• Oversee the load & capacity planning processes across the value streams to ensure delivery plans are supported by realistic manufacturing performance and robust inbound supply plans.                                                        

• Ensure appropriate, standard physical logistics solutions are deployed across the business. Ensure GPL costs are managed in line with budget.                                                             

Why Rolls-Royce?

Work with us and we’ll welcome you into a culture of caring and belonging where you can be yourself. We will listen first, embrace feedback and act with integrity. We will invest in your continuous learning and development, and make sure you have access to a wide breadth and depth of opportunities to grow your career and make a difference.

We offer excellent development, a competitive salary, and exceptional benefits. These include bonus, employee support assistance and employee discounts.

Hybrid working is a way in which our people can balance their time between the office, home, or another remote location.  It’s a locally managed and flexed informal discretionary arrangement.  As a minimum we’re all expected to attend the workplace for collaboration and other specific reasons, frequency will depend on business needs, nature of role, what works for the team and for the individual. Discover more on our GBS Service Portal about hybrid working.

Who we’re looking for

Being a part of Rolls-Royce, you’ll know we put safety first, do the right thing, keep it simple and make a difference.  These principles form our behaviours. They are an essential component of our assessment process and are fundamental qualities that we seek for all roles.

• Educated to degree level or relevant professional qualification (eg. APICS).

• Proven leadership qualities through ability to influence outside area of direct control.      

• Demonstrated ability to deliver under challenging circumstances.              

• Broad understanding  of different roles / functions / processes (e.g. Manufacturing, Purchase, NPI, ME etc).               

• Implemented improvement activity, participated in dealing with change (e.g. process, organisation).                         

• Experience of production planning and control processes.                                                             

• Knowledge of and working experience with MRP systems.                                                            

• MS Office or equivalent working skills.

Join us & help Rolls-Royce to become a high-performing, competitive, resilient business.

Please be aware that the priority will be given to employees identified as being at high risk.

The professional level and the salary of the position will be dependent on the skills and experience of the successful candidate.

It is advised that you inform your current manager of your application for this role.

We are an equal opportunities employer. We’re committed to developing a diverse workforce and an inclusive working environment. We believe that people from different backgrounds and cultures give us different perspectives. And the more perspectives we have, the more successful we’ll be. By building a culture of respect and appreciation, we give everyone who works here the opportunity to realise their full potential.

Learn more about our global Inclusion Strategy

Grade: Level C

Closing Date: 07/05/2025

People Leader: Rob Johnson

For further information please contact: Batinder Chana

Job Category

Supply Chain Planning & Control

Posting Date

17 Apr 2025; 00:04Posting End Date07 May 2025