Planning & Delivery Leader - Solihull
Full Time
Solihull/Hybrid working
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Position Summary
In this role you will manage the planning and on-time delivery of a defined portfolio of parts across the full product lifecycle, including NPI, production, transfers, and supply chain design.
You will serve as the primary contact for both external suppliers and internal stakeholders, ensuring strong relationship management and timely delivery performance.
This role also involves driving adherence to supplier commitments, resolving risks to delivery and inventory, and maintaining SAP data integrity in line with ERP processes.
What you will be doing
As a Planning & Delivery Leader you’ll be responsible for ensuring the planning and on time delivery of a defined portfolio of components across the full product lifecycle. This will include:
Demand flow down
Review and maintain the planning parameters of all the parts in your portfolio to ensure the MRP run generates a demand signal that is in line with suppliers’ capacity.
Manage the demand flow down to suppliers, ensuring suppliers receive weekly orderbooks that are reflective of RR needs, including exceptions highlighted by the RR ERP system that need to be reviewed and addressed by the suppliers.
Manage the requisitions for un-sourced parts to ensure buyers can source the parts in a timely manner
Supplier Management:
Lead regular reviews with suppliers to ensure the demand flowed down by RR is loaded into the supplier’s system, resolve the Exception management messages, understand production progress against commitments, highlight any issues and ensure treatment plans are in place and monitored to recover any potential delay or excess inventory.
Ensure any changes to the suppliers’ production plans and commitments are reflected in RR ERP systems.
Lead regular supplier reviews (Delivery reviews and orderbook reviews) in line with the agreed supplier engagement plan (remotely or on site at supplier) to review suppliers’ performance across all agreed KPIs, review load and capacity plan and ensure it supports RR demand, to review all risks and issues and ensure each have a treatment/mitigation plan to resolve/mitigate in a timely manner.
Work with your suppliers to create and execute arrears recovery plans for parts/suppliers who are behind plan, utilising an appropriate suite of planning and control tools
Drive suppliers to be compliant with their buffer stock requirements/agreements.
Stakeholder management
Where performance diverges from the plan, identify and prioritise delivery issues whilst assisting the mitigation and resolution. Escalate delivery issues accordingly to drive timely resolution of issues
Manage communication with stakeholders for shortages and excess inventory, communicate clearly the issue, demonstrating control by providing plans to resolve issues and provide frequent updates.
Work with other functions to ensure items which could impact on a supplier’s ability to deliver are resolved, including but not limited to invoice clearance, commercial disputes, technical/quality queries or insufficient purchase order coverage
ERP compliance:
Review all KPIs that are used within the Supplier management team and present progress and actions to be compliant during Weekly ERP compliance reviews
Work with suppliers, and internally, to resolve any delivery issues not directly linked to the suppliers (e.g. stock in transit, GRIP, NCR stock, etc)
Position qualifications
Being a part of Rolls-Royce you’ll know we embrace agility, are bold, pursue collaboration and seek simplicity in everything we do. These principles form our values and behaviours and are an essential component of our assessment process and are fundamental qualities that we seek for all roles.
Regional Benefits
Generous Annual Leave
Retirement Savings
Group Life Assurance provides for a lump sum benefit if you die whilst employed by Rolls-Royce
Group Income Protection provides an income in the event that you are unable to work due to illness or injury
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Our vision is to ensure that the excellence and ingenuity that shaped our history continues into our future. Our multi-year transformation programme aims to turn Rolls-Royce into a high-performing, competitive, resilient and growing company. Join us, and it can be your future vision too.
Rolls-Royce are committed to being a respectful, inclusive, and non-discriminatory workplace where individuality is valued, diverse perspectives fuel innovation, and everyone can thrive.
Closing date: 30th July 2026
As part of our selection process, candidates in certain locations may be asked to complete an online assessment, which can include cognitive and behavioural aptitude testing relevant to the role. If required, full instructions for the next steps will be provided.
Supply Chain Planning & Control
16 Jul 2026; 00:07
30 Jul 2026
