Assistant Supply Chain Manager

Willmott Dixon; Oldham; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 50,000

Job description

We have an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated Assistant Supply Chain Manager to join the team based from our Oldham office. You will work closely with the Supply Chain Manager and collaborate across pre-construction, delivery, and aftercare teams to develop and manage our supply chain partners, ensuring they meet both our current and future business needs.

This role requires commercial awareness and strong influencing skills. You should be passionate about driving value and ensuring high-quality products while engaging effectively with stakeholders at all levels. While experience in a similar role is essential, prior experience in the construction industry is not required.

Assistant Supply Chain Managers follow a hybrid working pattern, with four days spent in the office and on-site visits, and one day per week working from home.

This role offers a fantastic opportunity for a proactive individual to make a real impact. If you have strong negotiation skills, operational drive, and the ability to adapt to change, we’d love to hear from you!

Key Responsibilities

• Assist the Supply Chain Manager in maintaining a supply chain that aligns with business demands.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with supply chain partners to assess their capability and capacity.
• Analyse the cost of errors and propose improvements to enhance supply chain efficiency.
• Promote consistency and high standards across all supply chain partners on every project.
• Support the Supply Chain Manager in delivering regular business updates to supply chain partners.
• Gather and analyse performance feedback from internal teams, using insights to drive informed decision-making.

Essential and Desirable Criteria

• Experience in supply chain management or procurement.
• Knowledge of the Public Contract Regulations 2015 and other relevant procurement legislation.
• Degree or CIPS qualification.
• Experience in construction supply chain management.

Additional Information

Willmott Dixon embraces diversity in the workplace and will consider flexible and agile working. We are a disability confident employer.

Benefits: In return we reward our people generously with a competitive package that gives you flexible benefits to fit your lifestyle and priorities. This includes but is not limited to, an enhanced pension scheme, full/heavily discounted private medical, life assurance, incentive bonus, and a car scheme which will make us a market leader in sustainable company travel. Applicable roles will benefit from a motoring expenditure allowance (MEA) and everyone can access a new generation of low carbon and electric cars via the Willmott Dixon run car leasing scheme.

About Us

With over 170 years of rich history, Willmott Dixon’s purpose is beyond profit; delivering brilliant buildings, transforming lives, strengthening communities, and enhancing the environment so our world is fit for future generations. Ensuring that we add lasting value to the neighbourhoods we work in; our values, people, innovation, partnerships, and focus on sustainability has allowed us to build a successful and solid privately owned business where our people can thrive. Willmott Dixon was awarded No 1 in the Best "big" Companies (2022) to work for and the Times Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality 2024 and is the first major contractor and developer to win a King’s Award for Enterprise in the category of sustainable development.