EY Senior Manager Supply Chain Operations UK 

United Kingdom, England, London 

835685284

Senior Manager, Supply Chain and Operations, UK

Be it in the public sector as governments build new supply chains to respond to the changing needs of citizens, or in the private sector as national and international markets face unparalleled disruption.

Leverage and expand your experience in innovation to be at the forefront of shaping leading practices. Develop and impart your experience on those you work with to help create the next generation of leaders.

Your key responsibilities

As a Senior Manager, you’ll balance internal and external responsibilities, comprising client, business development support, operational and personal development.

Focus on our clients

• Build, maintain and strengthen relationships and be a trusted advisor in at least one area of supply chain i.e., operations, planning, procurement, manufacturing etc
• Be adept at problem-solving with clients and project teams, leveraging your skills to help manage projects to completion

• Contribute to the development of proposals to showcase some of our leading practices
• Engage the market with thought leadership and public profile, and contribute to enhancing our methodologies
• Work across our internal sector and account field of play teams to develop your network, bringing our expertise to bear

Drive operational excellence

• Support successful delivery of projects and workstreams as forecast to time and budget
• Help ensure the quality of our delivery exceeds client expectations by effectively managing activities and deliverables within your remit

• Manage and nurture those who work with you and undertake career counselling responsibilities
• Become an inclusive leader capable of forming diverse high performing teams that are enjoyable to be part of and help our consultant and client teams to develop and realise their potential

Typically, Senior Managers bring practical experience from either a professional services or industry background where you have developed your technical as management experience.

Our Senior Managers are required to possess good experience in at least one of the technical skills below and some experience across one or multiple others:

Technical Skill

• Supply Chain Transformation

End to end supply chain transformation, experience working on multiple transformation projects with considerable scope and scale. Demonstrable knowledge of working as part of the transformation including the design, setup and delivery including people, process and technological change.

• Digital Supply Chain/ Supply Chain Technology

Applying and implementing Supply Chain Technology, such as planning, manufacturing and procurement systems. Including next-generation supply chain technologies such as Robotic Process Automation, cognitive automation and AI

• Supply Chain Planning

Functional experience i.e .demand and supply planning, sales & operations planning, segmentation strategy, inventory optimisation and/or production scheduling. And technology experience, either from a Business Integrator, Systems Integrator or Industry role covering one or more of OMP, Kinaxis, o9, Aera, SAP IBP, Blue Yonder, and SAP S/4 HANA.

• Commercial & Procurement

Strategic, operational or transactional procurement across the purchasing lifecycle. This includes procurement strategy, operating model, category management, strategic sourcing, contract management or the deployment of procurement technology and analytics. Specific focus areas are: managing complex end to end procurements; driving cost out of organisation’s third party spend and conducting contract audits; and leveraging enterprise-level technology to standardise, automate and digitise various aspects of supply chain. Experience in deploying SAP Ariba is also being sought.

• Operating Model Transformation

E2E operating model experience covering Op Model strategy and vision, design, transformation and implementation. Whether from an external consulting perspective or within an industry role.

• Supply Chain Strategy

Operating Model design, segmentation strategy and inventory optimisation. Understanding the issues across the end-to-end supply chain, and potential solutions to improve performance.

Many of our Senior Managers have professional body membership or qualifications e.g. Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply (CIPS), or World Commerce and Contracting previously IACCM (International Association of Commercial & Contract Management) or equivalent, but if you feel that you have skills which you believe would be additive to our team, please apply.

What we offer

We offer a competitive remuneration package. Our comprehensive Total Rewards package includes support for flexible working and career development, and with FlexEY you can select benefits that suit your needs, covering holidays, health and well-being, insurance, savings and a wide range of discounts, offers and promotions. Plus, we offer:

You’ll develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next.We’ll give you the insights, coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs.
You’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.

Please note:Prior to finalizing your application, you will be asked to provide personal information across several dimensions of diversity and inclusiveness.We collect this data to help us analyse our recruitment process holistically and implement actions that promote diversity and inclusiveness. While optional, we encourage you to provide this information to hold us accountable towards our goal of building a better working world.