# Motorsport Material Control and Supply Planner

**Company**: McLaren Automotive
**Location**: Woking
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Logistics & Supply Chain
**Industry**: Motorsport
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1351854

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## Description

You will join the Motorsport Material Control team in Woking, working closely with suppliers and internal teams to ensure materials arrive on time and in full.

Responsibilities:

- Generate and maintain supplier delivery schedules to align with production and aftersales demand, ensuring timely material availability.

- Build and maintain strong relationships with suppliers, acting as the primary point of contact for ongoing communication and performance management.

- Proactively manage and resolve supplier crises, mitigating risks to production and supply continuity.

- Monitor and report on part risks, escalating issues as needed to prevent disruptions.

- Collaborate with the MPC team to manage call-offs from Unipart 3PL, ensuring seamless transition and availability of carry-over content.

- Work closely with the MPC team to ensure motorsport chassis and painted panels are loaded accurately and on time, in line with the production plan.

- Coordinate with MCTC to ensure all modification work is completed according to GT3 and GT4 production requirements.

- Partner with relevant stakeholders to ensure uninterrupted planning and supply of GT3 engines, utilising SAP's subcontracting process for effective tracking and management.

- Organise and coordinate transport to guarantee timely deliveries within budget constraints.

- Resolve invoice queries and GIQ issues promptly to maintain smooth financial and material flows.

- Ensure SAP systems are consistently updated with accurate information, including maintaining delivery dates in customer orders.

- Create BDRs as required, documenting and managing deviations from standard build processes.

- Work closely with Purchasing, Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Aftersales Specialists, Logistics and Production to support end-to-end material control and supply planning.

- Review and sign off Material Releases, ensuring all materials meet quality and delivery standards.

- Own and manage assigned supplier stock to correct inventory levels while minimising premium freight spend and obsolescence.

Requirements:

- Understanding of automotive OEM and/or motorsport supply chains and supplier manufacturing processes.

- Experience of SAP is highly desirable.

- Strong Excel and data interpretation skills.

- Comprehensive grasp of planning principles and objectives.

- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

- Ability to build good relationships at all levels.

- Structured and organised approach with the ability to manage and prioritise tasks against tight deadlines.

- Ability to apply problem-solving techniques to situations of moderate complexity.

- Resilient and able to work under pressure.

- A team player able to multi-task in a fast-paced, ever-changing environment.

Benefits:

- Structured career development framework.

- 25 days' holiday, plus bank holiday.

- Enhanced company pension scheme.

- Discretionary annual bonus award.

- Private medical insurance and health cash plan.

- Life assurance benefit.

- Ability to apply for a sabbatical of up to one year after only two years' service.

- Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping.

- Generous parental leave policies.

- A range of wellbeing initiatives, such as employee assistance programme and free financial & mortgage advice.

## Skills

### Required
- SAP
- Excel
- data interpretation
- planning principles
- communication skills
- problem-solving

### Nice to have
- SAP MRP
- subcontracting
- automotive OEM
- motorsport supply chains

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