Supply Chain Planner

Job Title: Supply Chain Planner

Working Pattern: Full -Time

Working location: Derby

We have an exciting opportunity for a Supply chain planner to join our Rolls-Royce team in Derby.

The Supply Chain Planner will be responsible for delivery of your defined portfolio acting as a single point of contact, driving on time delivery through effective planning whilst maintaining the ERP and supporting systems Within your team you will identify, prioritise, mitigate and resolve delivery issues.

Why Rolls-Royce?

Rolls-Royce is one of the most enduring and iconic brands in the world and has been at the forefront of innovation for over a century. We design, build and service systems that provide critical power to customers where safety and reliability are paramount.

We are proud to be a force for progress, powering, protecting and connecting people everywhere.

We want to ensure that the excellence and ingenuity that has shaped our history continues into our future and we need people like you to come and join us on this journey.

We’ll provide an environment of caring and belonging where you can be yourself. An inclusive, innovative culture that invests in you, gives you access to an incredible breadth and depth of opportunities where you can grow your career and make a difference.

What we offer

We offer excellent development opportunities, a competitive salary, and exceptional benefits. These include bonus, employee support assistance and employee discounts.

Your needs are as unique as you are. Hybrid working is a way in which our people can balance their time between the office, home, or another remote location. It’s a locally managed and flexed informal discretionary arrangement. As a minimum we’re all expected to attend the workplace for collaboration and other specific reasons, on average three days per week.

What you will be doing:

• Compliance with the planning cycle, to produce a credible plan to meet customer demands including inventory, logistics and storage considerations
• Ensure pre-production activities are undertaken to ensure the system is maintained with robust credible data that creates suitable supply plans, taking actions to rectify inaccuracies
• Work with your supply chain to manage their orderbook/project plans and make balanced decisions to ensure business priorities are supported to best satisfy customer demands
• Have a working knowledge of the load and capacity factors that could potentially affect the ability of the supply chain to deliver against plan and offer mitigations
• Awareness of inventory logistics implications across the value stream and optimise inventory, whilst minimising customer delivery risk/costs
• Ensure robust answers are given to any Sales and Operation Planning questions through the Demands Management process
• To carry out and input to required business and operational reviews to understand capability to deliver to demand requirements, to define and manage actions to mitigate risks and issues
• To operate to the relevant policies and procedures as defined and comply with RRMS

Who we’re looking for:

At Rolls-Royce we put safety first, do the right thing, keep it simple and make a difference. These principles form the behaviours that guide us and are an essential component of our assessment process. They are the fundamental qualities that we seek for all roles.

• To be successful in this role you will need to have:
• Educated to degree level or relevant professional qualification (e g APICS)
• Experience of supply chain planning & control is essential
• Understanding and experience of managing load & capacity
• Demonstrated ability to manage deliveries and make balanced business decisions under challenging circumstances
• Understanding of different roles functions processes (e g Manufacturing, Purchase, NPI, Quality)
• Able to take responsibility for their own development
• Working knowledge of, and experience with MRP and/or ERP systems
• Has the ability to influence others

Core Functional Skills:

• Planning – The ability to understand why, and how the business forecasts, plans and manages work using planning tools, to support customer requirements
• Execution – To have an understanding of the roles, responsibilities, constraints and processes which enables the business to enact planning decisions
• Compliance – The ability to understand how the business uses compliance via policies, procedures and systems and the implications of non-compliance on the business
• Inventory – To understand what inventory is, the implications of too much/too little inventory, potential causes and mitigations To have the ability to identify inventory using executive systems and tools
• Operations – To have an understanding of business operational challenges, constraints and inter-dependencies on processes relating to your role. An appreciation of the critical nature of operational requirements and timely resolution of issues

We are an equal opportunities employer. We’re committed to developing a diverse workforce and an inclusive working environment. We believe that people from different backgrounds and cultures give us different perspectives which are crucial to innovation and problem solving. We believe the more diverse perspectives we have, the more successful we’ll be. By building a culture of caring and belonging, we give everyone who works here the opportunity to realise their full potential.

You can learn more about our global Inclusion strategy at Our people | Rolls-Royce

To work for the Rolls-Royce Submarines business an individual has to hold a Security Check clearance. Rolls-Royce will support the application for Security Clearance if you do not currently already have this in place. Due to the nature of work the business conducts and the protection of certain assets we can only progress applications from individuals who are a UK national or, in MoD approved cases, a dual national.