Senior Supply Chain Manager

Role Title - Senior Supply Chain Manager
Salary - £68,000 - £90,000 (DOE)
Locations - Derby, Warrington OR Manchester (Hybrid)

We are recruiting for a Senior Supply Chain Manager to be involved in an industry leading, cutting-edge project for a new type of power station. The role provides the unique opportunity to work in an exciting new nuclear age engaging and working with strategic customers, suppliers and partners, developing meaningful relationships with some of the largest entities across the globe.

Role Purpose

As a Senior Supply Chain Manager within Rolls Royce SMR's Supply Chain team, you will develop, deploy and communicate relevant supply chain strategies (Partnership and Commodity), providing a clear vision and strategic framework for the designated supply chain(s). Establish and lead cross functional purchasing teams, creating and sustaining the right collaborative environment to ensure that the strategies and the execution of meet the needs of current and future business programmes.

Role Requirements

You will have experience in a "front line" operations, procurement or supply chain delivery role achieving success with challenging objectives in tight timescales.

• Focus ideally would be cross functional including strategy, commercials, project management, regulation, logistics, physical goods and full supply chain solutions.
• Technical experience in one or more of the following: civils and construction, EC&I, steam-turbines/power generation, heavy pressure vessels, modular processing plant build, nuclear fuel, nuclear commodities/components, validation testing.
• Experience in deploying a framework to develop specific strategies to achieve business needs recognising global opportunities, differing regulatory environments and the implementation of best practice into the supply chain strategy.
• Experience in managing supplier or partner organisations to lead and influence an optimal solution for the business to include highly regulatory environments such as nuclear, power generation, civils and construction.
• Ability to effectively communicate and use a variety of styles to engage internally within SMR and also represent the business with external bodies including governments and funding organisations.
• Managing teams with a focus on the development of a business facing, high performing supply chain team, through coaching and mentoring. Developing a continuous improvement culture that challenges and reviews activities, behaviours, policies and procedures to capture, share and implement learnings.

Training and Qualification Requirements

• Essential Degree or Equivalent
• Ideal MCIPS qualified
• Ideal APM accreditation
• Relevant Engineering including nuclear qualification would be beneficial

Confidence can sometimes hold us back from applying for a job; however, there's no such thing as a perfect candidate. If you feel you meet 75% of the requirements for this role, we would love to hear from you.

If you are considering a career move or a sector-jump, please get in touch; we welcome applications from people with transferable skills.

Pay and Benefits

We anticipate paying a salary between £68,000 - £90,000 Dependant on Experience

• Bonus - Short Term Incentive - Performance Based- target opportunity 17%
• Benefits Allowance - £5,000, enabling you to create a bespoke package
• Pension - 12% employer and 6% employee contributions.
• Holidays - 28 days holiday (+ public holidays) and the ability to buy or sell up to 4 days
• Private Medical Insurance - BUPA single cover health care
• Life Assurance - 6x pensionable pay
• £250 - One-off payment for new starters for home office purchases

Company Related

We are Rolls-Royce SMR. Rolls-Royce SMR is a rare employer because it blends the world-class brand of Rolls Royce with an exciting start-up that has a hugely challenging mission. We're doing work that contributes to the survival of the planet. Because of our mission, there's a pace and energy that is palpable, and our leaders draw you in with their passion, energy, and determination.

We're one of a handful of employers who can genuinely say we're a strengths-based organisation - our people are here because of what makes them great, and our job is to help them make the best contribution of their careers doing work they love.

The start-up mentality coupled with our strengths-approach to people means there are opportunities to grow in ways and jobs you probably would be barred from doing in more traditional companies.
Each Rolls-Royce SMR power station will have the capacity to generate 470MW of low carbon energy, equivalent to more than 150 onshore wind turbines and enough to power a million homes. It will provide consistent baseload generation for at least 60 years, helping to support the roll out of renewable generation and overcome intermittency issues.

Our Culture

At Rolls-Royce SMR, we are committed to ensuring that our teams reflect the communities we serve and that everyone can be themselves at work. We know that diverse teams are more innovative and get better results, and that our people can thrive and be more successful in truly inclusive cultures. Join us and help shape our culture. Find out more about our inclusion pledge.
Rolls-Royce SMR is a place where everyone can grow, so whatever background you bring with you, please apply if this is a role that would make you excited to come into work every day and help shape our culture.

Our Screening Process

Due to the safety regulations within the nuclear industry, applicants will be required to participate in the following additional screening:
• Obtaining Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) clearance
• Satisfactory completion of a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check
• Satisfactory completion of a basic financial probity check