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.