Description
Reporting to the Senior Material Planner & Control, this supplier-facing role ensures materials arrive from McLaren's supply base on time and in full. The successful candidate will create and maintain achievable delivery schedules, manage supplier relationships, and develop supplier capability.
Key responsibilities:
- Manage supplier logistics quality and ensure efficient inbound material flow
- Identify, communicate, and mitigate supply risks with suppliers
- Represent supply chain risks and opportunities at internal management reviews
- Use MRP (SAP) to balance demand and supply, creating a delivery plan that satisfies production, development, and other sources
- Reduce obsolescence and inventory holding to company targets
- Be the point of contact for assigned suppliers and material availability concerns
- Work with suppliers to ensure effective, mutually beneficial relationships
- Adopt a continuous improvement approach for internal processes and supplier logistics quality
- Manage the supply base against defined KPIs to support business improvement
- Support Engineering in implementing new parts, ensuring MRP demand accuracy and coordinating stock run-out and ramp-up
- Conduct scenario modelling to assess the impact of changes to demand and supply
- Own and manage MRP parameter data to deliver correct inventory levels and stability to McLaren's Operations
The ideal candidate will have:
- Experience in an automotive OEM supply chain environment
- Highly developed relationship-building skills
- Structured and organised approach to work management
- Experience with MRP and/or SAP
- Delivery-focused with a demonstrable track record of on-time delivery
- Excellent organisational, verbal, and written communication skills
- Ability to build good relationships at all levels, internally and externally
- Resilience, ambition, and self-motivation
- Strong Excel and data interpretation skills
- Comprehensive grasp of planning principles and objectives
We offer a wide-ranging benefits package, including:
- 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 two years' service
- Benefits adaptable to lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
- Generous parental leave policies
- Wellbeing initiatives, including employee assistance programme and free financial & mortgage advice