# Senior Logistics and Supply Chain Leader

**Company**: Tekever
**Location**: Swindon
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Logistics & Supply Chain
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We are seeking a Senior Logistics and Supply Chain Leader to join our UK operations leadership team. As a member of this team, you will shape how logistics enables Tekever's industrial ramp-up, designing a multi-site network that can scale with production rates, representing logistics in S&OP and investment decisions, and positioning the function as a source of competitive advantage.

**Responsibilities:**

- Develop and own the UK logistics strategy and multi-year roadmap, aligned with Tekever's industrial strategy and production ramp-up plans

- Design the target operating model across all sites, including make-or-buy decisions, warehouse footprint and capacity planning, transport network architecture, and service levels

- Build, lead, and develop the logistics leadership team, defining the organisational structure, roles, and succession plans needed to scale from today's operation to full-rate production

- Ensure that all logistics operations comply with applicable regulations and company policies, including UK customs rules, export controls for defence goods, and dangerous goods requirements

- Set the strategy, policies, and performance framework for the end-to-end material flow, holding operational managers accountable for delivery against agreed KPIs

- Represent logistics on the UK operations leadership team and in S&OP, partnering with Procurement, Manufacturing, Quality, Programmes, and Finance to ensure logistics is embedded in industrialisation decisions

- Define and drive the digital roadmap for logistics, including ERP/WMS/TMS architecture, automation, data, and analytics

- Own the logistics P&L and capital investment cases, leading strategic negotiations with carriers, freight forwarders, and 3PL partners

- Anticipate and mitigate supply chain and logistics risks, building resilience and contingency into the network design

**Requirements:**

- Proven senior logistics or supply chain leader with 10+ years of experience in manufacturing, preferably in aerospace, defence, or automotive

- Degree in Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Supply Chain, Logistics, or Management

- Demonstrable experience defining logistics strategy and operating models, and building or transforming logistics organisations

- Experience leading managers and multi-site teams, with a track record of developing leadership talent and scaling functions through periods of rapid growth

- Solid working knowledge of UK customs and international trade, including export controls for military/dual-use goods and dangerous goods regulations

**What We Offer:**

- Excellent work environment and opportunity to make a difference

- Salary commensurate with level of experience

- Company pension contribution matched up to 10%

- 25 days annual holiday + 8 Bank holidays

- Medical Insurance

- Dental Insurance

- Salary sacrifice initiatives (EV Scheme, Cycle 2 Work, Tech Scheme)

- Discretionary annual company bonus

## Skills

### Required
- logistics strategy
- supply chain leadership
- operations management
- regulatory compliance
- digitalisation

### Nice to have
- AS9100
- ISO 9001
- Lean principles
- data analysis

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