GKN Aerospace
Job title:
Supplier Management Director
Company
GKN Aerospace
Job description
Fantastic challenges. Amazing opportunities.GKN Aerospace is reimagining air travel: going further, faster and greener! Fuelled by great people whose expertise and creativity sets the standards in our industry, we’re inspired by the opportunities to innovate and break boundaries. We’re proud to play a part in protecting the world’s democracies. And we’re committed to putting sustainability at the centre of everything we do, opening up and protecting our planet. With over 15,000 employees across 41 manufacturing sites in 12 countries we serve over 90% of the world’s aircraft and engine manufacturers. There are no limits to where you can take your career.Job SummaryA Truly Global Business
Every day, around the world, we help aircrafts fly further, faster and greener. We’re the world’s leading tier one aerospace supplier of systems and components. With over 15,000 employees across 41 manufacturing sites in 13 countries serving over 90% of the world’s aircraft and engine manufacturers with sales of £2.8bn. Together as “one GKN” we’re moving our business and industry forward developing technologies that rapidly decarbonise aircraft, and innovating to help build a new generation of planes that produce zero emissions. We’re putting sustainability at the heart of what we do; driving our objective to becoming a net zero greenhouse gas emissions business before 2050!GKN Aerospace is reimagining air travel: going further, faster and greener! Fuelled by great people whose expertise and creativity sets the standards in our industry, we’re inspired by the opportunities to innovate and break boundaries. We’re committed to putting sustainability at the centre of everything we do, opening up and protecting our planet. With over 15,000 employees across 38 manufacturing sites in 12 countries we serve over 90% of the world’s aircraft and engine manufacturers.
GKN Aerospace Civil Business Line spends c.£800m p.a. with more than 1,000 suppliers. We will build and deploy structured, collaborative relationships with our key suppliers. Suppliers to GKN should actively compete for our business and work hard to retain it by achieving continually high levels of delivery & quality performance whilst incrementally delivering value (reducing total cost or supporting revenue growth). The Supplier Management Director is responsible for defining our approach to supplier management and implementing through our matrix organisation.
Our procurement function operates in a matrix between Site based procurement operations and Business Line Commodity and Supplier Management functions. This role leads the Supplier Management function reporting to the CPO. It will lead resources in the BL team under hard line responsibility and operational procurement teams under dotted line responsibility.How You’ll Contribute
- Deliver a significant and demonstrable improvement in supplier performance (cost, quality, delivery) and risk (capacity and capability).
- Define a structured, effective and efficient way of managing our supply base in order to reduce risk and deliver value
- Implement a segmentation model (at BL and Site level) according to the specific characteristics of the supplier current / future relationship with GKN
- Define and implement appropriate management strategies ensure the optimal level of focus, resource and effort across each segment of the supply base and with particular suppliers encompassing:
- Contract management
- Performance management
- Relationship management
- Capacity and capability assessment and development
What You’ll BringEssential:
⦁ Significant & successful experience (10 years) in delivering excellence in supplier management in complex manufacturing environments
⦁ Proven ability to define and deliver supplier management strategies – beyond delivery of ‘out of the box’ methodologies.
⦁ Effective leadership capability in direct and matrix structures. Clear evidence of delivery and taking personal responsibility to get the job done.
⦁ Significant experience with an international supply base
⦁ A demonstrated ability to build relations with a supplier network and having insight in suppliers processesDesirable:
⦁ Relevant business experience in the commercial aerospace sector, knowledge of the customer programmes of GKN Aerospace
⦁ Relevant professional and academic qualifications are highly valued. For example CIPS, degrees in relevant subject matterRegular international travel is required for this role, the successful candidate will be UK or NL basedWhat We OfferOnce you’re on board you’ll get the following perks and benefits:
⦁ Competitive salary + Company Bonus scheme
⦁ Industry Leading Pension Scheme = we’ll match your contributions up to 8% on a 1 : 1.5 basis
⦁ Life Assurance 8 x salary
⦁ 25 days holiday + bank holidays
⦁ Flexible working hours
⦁ Income protection
⦁ Shopping discounts
⦁ Cycle To Work Scheme
⦁ Employee Assistance Programme
⦁ Virtual GP Clinic for you and immediate family
⦁ A collaborative, dynamic working environment
As well as a competitive package we’ll offer you a world of opportunity. We want to see your career fly! We’ll support your career progression by providing you with learning and development opportunities. That’s the beauty of being part of a global business, once you’re on board you never know where you career journey may take you!We’ll offer you fantastic challenges and amazing opportunities. This is your chance to be part of an organisation that has proven itself to be at the cutting edge of our industry; and is committed to pushing the boundaries even further. And with some of the best training on offer in the industry, who knows how far you can go?A Great Place to work needs a Great Way of WorkingEveryone is welcome to apply to GKN. We believe that we can only achieve our ambitions through a coming together of diverse minds who enjoy collaborating in an inspirational environment. Through our commitment to diversity, inclusion and belonging and by living our five powerful principles we’ve created a culture where everyone feels welcome to contribute. It’s a culture that won us ‘The Best Workplace Culture Award’. By embracing and celebrating what makes us unique we encourage everyone to bring their full self to work.We’re also committed to providing an accessible recruitment process, so if you require reasonable adjustments at any stage during our recruitment process please get in touch and let us know.We are the place where human dreams, plus human endeavour, shape the future of aerospace innovation and technology.
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Location
Bristol Area
Job date
Wed, 13 Mar 2024 23:10:00 GMT
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