Head of Sourcing and Resilience

What you’ll do:

Strategic Sourcing & Supplier Management

• Develop and execute sourcing strategies across electronics, PCBAs, mechanical commodities, indirect procurement and new programmes.
• Lead supplier selection, contract negotiations and strategic supplier partnerships.
• Deliver cost competitiveness through value engineering, supplier development and total cost of ownership improvements.
• Support make-versus-buy decisions and supplier footprint optimisation.
• Ensure sourcing decisions balance cost, quality, delivery, inventory and risk.

Supply Chain Resilience & Risk Management

• Own the site's supply chain resilience strategy and supplier risk governance framework.
• Maintain visibility of supplier financial health, capacity, business continuity, geopolitical exposure, cybersecurity and material availability risks.
• Lead reviews of all sole-source and single-source components, ensuring mitigation plans are in place and actively managed.
• Drive risk reduction through dual sourcing, supplier diversification, inventory buffering, long-term agreements and alternative technology solutions.
• Partner with Engineering and Quality to eliminate sole-source dependencies through redesign, requalification and standardisation initiatives.
• Lead supplier recovery and escalation activities where delivery, quality or capacity threaten customer commitments.
• Ensure continuity plans exist for critical suppliers, materials and technologies.

Supplier Performance & Programme Support

• Lead strategic supplier reviews and performance improvement activities.
• Improve supplier delivery, quality, responsiveness and capacity readiness.
• Sponsor supplier development and continuous improvement programmes.
• Support bids, new product introductions and programme launch through early supplier engagement and readiness reviews.
• Leverage supplier capability to improve affordability, manufacturability and programme execution.

Inventory & Working Capital

• Develop inventory strategies that balance resilience, customer service and working capital.
• Improve inventory turns through lead-time reduction, supplier flexibility and planning alignment.
• Reduce excess and obsolete inventory through proactive lifecycle management and supplier engagement.

Leadership

• Build and develop a high-performing sourcing organisation.
• Drive succession planning, capability development and employee engagement.
• Promote a culture of accountability, collaboration and continuous improvement.
• Contribute actively to Supply Chain Leadership Team priorities and site objectives.

Qualifications:

• Degree qualified in Supply Chain, Engineering, Manufacturing or Business.
• MCIPS or equivalent professional qualification.
• Leadership experience within aerospace, defence or a similarly regulated manufacturing environment.
• Strong background in strategic sourcing, supplier management and category leadership.
• Experience managing supplier risk, resilience and business continuity programmes.
• Demonstrated success reducing sole-source dependency and improving supplier performance.
• Strong commercial, contractual and stakeholder management capability.
• Proven track record of building and leading high-performing teams.
• Knowledge of AS9100, aerospace quality requirements and export controls.
• Experience supporting New Product Introduction and complex programme environments.

Skills:

• Works effectively with others
• Proactively able to manage own work to in order to achieve objectives
• Use own initiative within the scope of the role
• Plans work and consistently delivers on time
• Seeks effective solutions to problems encountered
• Makes timely decisions within the scope of the role
• Demonstrates a “Can do” positive attitude

What we offer:

• Opportunity to work in a global, highly collaborative environment
• Challenging projects in dynamic collaborative team
• Strong focus on learning, development, and career progression
• Competitive compensation and benefits package
• A culture that promotes inclusion, accountability, and continuous improvement

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