Manufacturing Procurement Manager
Hybrid | Telford | Full Time, Perm|
Position Overview
Reporting into Head of Programme Procurement. This role ensures supply performance is visible, risks are acted upon early, and material readiness aligns with engineering, manufacturing, and trials milestones.
What You Will Do
- Act as Deputy for the HoPP.
- Integrate supplier milestones, lead times, and readiness activities into the Integrated Master Schedule (IMS), working closely with the SCM.
- Lead weekly schedule-based supply reviews — focused on risk, recovery actions, and forecast-to-need alignment.
- Coordinate input into programme-level planning artefacts: milestone health, DAREO, EAC, and change impact assessments.
- Own supply chain progress and risk visibility for delivery governance, including scenario planning and escalation coordination.
- Act as the delivery lead across the wider programme for supply chain readiness — ensuring alignment to build, trials, and acceptance windows.
- Support change proposals, contract variations, and acceleration opportunities by assessing time and delivery implications from the supply side.
- Work with the SCM’s to manage interfaces with engineering, procurement, and manufacturing — ensuring plans are joined up and risks are jointly owned.
- Work with the HoPP to co-ordinate Bid activity in terms of interfacing bid inputs and capture.
- Drive accountability and planning discipline across all supply streams — identifying and challenging gaps, lags, or misalignment to the IMS.
