KNDS UK

Senior Supply Chain & Procurement Coodinator

Company
Location
Stockport, England, United Kingdom
Posted At
6/11/2025
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Description
We are currently looking for a Senior Supply Chain & Procurement Coodinator

A Little About Us

With over a century of engineering expertise and innovation, KNDS UK is a renowned world leader in rapidly deployable military bridging systems and a key partner in the UK MoD’s Boxer armoured vehicle programme.

We are proud of our heritage and our reputation of providing the highest quality engineering solutions for over 100 years. As a trusted partner to military customers around the world, our employees are the very heart of our company. We have a skilled and experienced workforce dedicated to achieving excellence in all areas of the business from Engineering to Project Management, Business Support to Operations.

About The Role

As our business evolves, we are looking to strengthen our workforce with talented and motivated individuals across a range of disciplines to work from our Northwest Engineering Centre of Excellence and currently have this opportunity available:

The core responsibility of this role is to maintain and coordinate supply of material from key suppliers in line with demand requirements. You will be involved from project initiation to completion, coordinating with suppliers, internal teams, and customers to maintain efficiency and accuracy.

Key Duties Include, But Are Not Limited To

  • Work closely with suppliers to ensure timely delivery of materials and where needed provide solutions to supply chain/logistics challenges that ensure contractual obligations can be fulfilled.
  • Overseeing stock control and ensuring accurate inventory management.
  • Preparing reports for the Operations Team and supporting regular reporting duties.
  • Supporting additional business functions as required.
  • Build strong and effective relationships with supply chain partners, internal colleagues and support our relationships principal suppliers.
  • To focus on operational performance management of the key supply chain partners using a structured and data-driven approach.
  • To actively manage and respond to live supply chain operational requirements, taking ownership to both help with and resolve issues that arise.
  • Working with the Group procurement team to maintain purchase orders in line with latest BOM.
  • PIR & Source list maintenance for allocated suppliers.
  • Work closely with the group procurement team to ensure inventory is at the correct level, any changes to designs or requirements are understood and implemented.
  • Work closely with the warehouse team to ensure parts are processed efficiently.

What We’re Looking For

We need you to be educated to degree level, HND or equivalent in Logistics or a Manufacturing-based discipline. We need you to have proven experience within Procurement, Supply Chain & Inventory Management with a good understanding of SAP. It would be advantageous for you to speak German for this position.

Why You Should Join Us

When you become part of the KNDS UK team, you will enjoy employee benefits such as:

  • Competitive salary
  • Attractive pension (4% employee contribution, 7% employer contribution)
  • Half-day Friday
  • Life assurance scheme
  • Company sick pay scheme which increases with service
  • Employee Assistance Programme
  • Additional Holidays & other Long Service rewards
  • Wellbeing initiatives, such as Free Fruit on Tuesday’s
  • Cycle to work Scheme
  • Free on-site car parking
  • On-site electric vehicle charging points

We’re also very proud to be part of the Armed Forces Covenant since 2018, achieving their Silver Award in 2020 and Gold Award in 2024. We actively support and encourage service leavers, reservists and cadets to join our team, recognising military skills and qualifications in our recruitment and selection process.

If you are passionate about Procurement & Supply Chain and eager to contribute to a thriving workplace environment, we encourage you to apply for this exciting opportunity.

We look forward to receiving your application!

Recruiters please note that we have a list of approved recruitment agency partners in place and we will contact agencies directly should we require support. Any unsolicited CV’s received via an agency will be accepted with thanks but without fee.
Advertise with us by contacting: [email protected]
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