Supply Chain Operations Senior Specialist - J39801

Job Title: Supply Chain Operations Senior Specialist

Location: Whitley, Coventry

Rate: £30.73ph via an Umbrella Company (Inside IR35) or £23.39ph PAYE

Employment Type: Contract (78 Weeks)

Hours: Standard 40 Hours Per Week

Reference: J39801

Job Description:

This role will manage, deliver and ensure the Aftermarket Parts Supply Chain Operational Readiness for Li-Ion batteries. This involves understanding the future supply chain and business Electric Vehicle (EV) strategy and requirements and bringing them to life by delivering this essential workstream as part of the wider cross-functional project.

The role will focus on the successful implementation of warehouse storage facilities and successful 3rd Party Logistics (3PL) service provider integration globally specifically focusing on Li-Ion Batteries. This will support ensuring a robust operation is implemented to provide replacement batteries and associated service parts to our global customers in-line with our client's plan to increase EV production across multiple new vehicle platforms.

Key Accountabilities and Responsibilities:

• Support the warehouse location selection and validate operational design in accordance with business standards and legal requirements.
• Investment budget appraisal, validation and placement to enable business requirement. Oversee or manage fit out completion ready to receive product. Onboard 3PL with processes in place and training complete to required levels.
• Develop clear and robust operational readiness criteria with clear governance and stakeholder management in place.
• Ensure adherence to key project and vehicle program milestones and deliverables.
• Deliver solution in-line with customer journey expectation.

The project will require focus, support and delivery on the following elements:

• Global warehousing facilities.
• Working with our client's Property Team.
• Support the development delivery of logistics operations processes.
• Ensure implementation of logistics operations process to required timescales.
• Ensure robust process development and implementation to address potential failure modes.
• Support 3PL procurement process. Onboard 3PL partner including resource / training / equipment readiness etc.
• Engage with Inbound Supply and Freight Teams to ensure inbound and outbound material flows are set up.
• Collaborate with External Partners to deliver a warehouse design in-line with our client's standards.
• Engage with cross functional workstreams to ensure a cohesive end-to-end supply chain solution.
• Utilise best practice learning and exploit synergies throughout our client's wider business regarding storage and handling of Li-Ion batteries (Including UK battery repair hub).
• Collaborate with GCC Digital Team on delivery of required systems capability.
• Ensure solutions implemented are compliant to our legal obligations.
• Align operational performance metrics to global standards and customer.
• Ensure speed of order fulfilment to point of dispatch supporting the customer journey SLA.
• The key element of this role will be to successfully manage a range of Internal and External Stakeholders.
• The key deliverable is the successful implementation (ready to operate) of a geographically located storage and distribution facility ready to receive and dispatch batteries in line with our client's vehicle program timing.

Skills Required:

• Background and experience in Supply Chain Management with proven experience in logistics operations setup and implementations.
• Able to forge excellent cross-functional relationships and communicate succinctly across a number of functions and partners.
• Excellent project management skills, experience in working with cross-functional teams in a matrix organization and a passion about moving tasks forward as well as taking full ownership of projects / issues.

Experience Required:

• Background and experience in Supply Chain Management.
• Experience of Agile Methodologies, Prince 2 or equivalent.
• Able to forge excellent cross-functional relationships and communicate succinctly across a number of functions and partners.
• Proven experience in logistics operations setup and implementations.
• Excellent collaboration, communication, and analytical skills, including the ability to make fact based, data-driven decisions and considering multiple (and potentially competing) factors.
• Ability to negotiate and have adaptability.
• Ability to present, make recommendations, challenge people at all levels based on data and insight, both quantitative and qualitative.
• Sound commercial judgement and confidence to contribute effectively.
• Highly competent with MS packages including Excel, Word and PowerPoint.
• Demonstrates our Creator's Code behaviours of Customer Love, Unity, Integrity, Growth and Impact.
• Continually working hard to deliver a modern luxury experience to earn and keep our customers trust and loyalty.

Experience Preferred:

• Understanding vehicle technologies / EV & Li-Ion knowledge.
• Automotive business experience particularly in parts supply chain.

Key Interactions:

• Interacts at Director / Senior Manager and all levels both within our client and with external partners including the After Market Parts Supply Chain Management Team, our client's Property, our client's IT / Systems, our client's Corp Functions (Legal / Business Protection / Property / Insurance), UK GPLC Operations (Mercia), 3rd Party Logistics provider, External design partner, Head of International Supply Chain & Logistics Performance Finance Indirect Procurement.

Additional Information:

Some overseas travel may be required.

This role is INSIDE IR35.

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