Supply Chain Project Manager

Supply Chain Project Manager
Burnley

Skills: Supply chain expertise, Project Management, ERP, Advanced planning, Risk & Stakeholder management.

Safran - Here, we craft excellence together.

At Safran, excellence is a journey - and we'd love you to be a part of it. As a trusted global leader in aerospace, defence, and space, we are proud to be a company where diversity, innovation, and opportunity come together to shape a sustainable future where we can all succeed together through a shared vision

Looking after the people who make Safran great is our priority. We offer a range of flexible benefits designed to support you-both in and out of work, including:

37 hour working week over 4.5 days with a 1pm Finish on Fridays
10% employer pension contribution
25 days' holiday + bank holidays plus the option to buy an additional 5 days
4X life insurance
BUPA private medical insurance plan
Option to purchase Safran shares with additional free shares
Wellbeing support through our employee assistance programme

The Supply Chain Project Manager is a newly created role forming a key position within the Safran Nacelles UK Supply Chain leadership team. The role is accountable for delivery of Supply Chain Transformation projects integrating Supply Chain, Data, and Digitalisation initiatives ensuring alignment with Safran Group strategy.

Key responsibilities:

Transformation Leadership:

• Implement the Supply Chain transformation plan aligned to both local and global Supply Chain Strategy
• Own the transformation roadmaps, KPIs, and success measures

Supply Chain Excellence:

• Drive supply chain improvements identified from the Supply Chain 4.0 initiatives
• Implement digital tools and platforms
• Improve data accuracy, planning discipline, and real time analytics
• Champion automation, predictive analytics, and supply chain digitisation projects Process Improvement & Supply Chain

Operational Excellence:

• Effective leadership to deploy the business vision, SMART objectives & KPI's across the Supply Chain organisation and as part of the UK executive team
• Deliver the supply chain transformation goals:
  1. Execute the end state vision for an integrated, resilient, and data driven supply chain
  2. Execute the multi year roadmap: digitalisation, process optimisation, and organisational capability building
  3. Champion digital solutions ensuring solutions are adopted by teams and embedded into day to day operations

Stakeholder Collaboration:

• Build confidence within Safran Nacelles Supply Chain global team, managing transformation progress with a collaborate approach to identify and manage risks

Project Management:

• Manage complex, cross functional projects from scoping through to execution and benefits realisation
• Facilitate workshops, training sessions, and communication to support transformation readiness
• Act as a key influencer to embed a culture of operational excellence

What You'll Bring:

• Proven leadership across planning, procurement, logistics, supply management and inventory control
• Experience within end to end supply chain multi site or global organisation.
• Demonstrated ability to understand and analysis trends to improve core KPIs
• Detailed vision of the production processes and the company's supply chain
• Proficiency in the MRPII process
• Team management in a matrix environment
• Be capable of communicating with an English speaking UAP/Supplier, both verbally and in writing
• APICS CPIM or working towards or other relevant business qualification.

At Safran, we understand that diversity and inclusion make teams stronger and more effective, and as an organisation, we are committed to fair and equitable employment practices for
everyone.

We also know that some candidates may be put off applying for jobs where they don't meet 100% of the criteria outlined in the advert, however, we encourage anybody to apply if you can
demonstrate a variety of skills and experience relevant to the requirements of this role.

Please let us know if you would like to discuss any reasonable adjustments to the application or hiring process that may better facilitate your participation.