Supply Chain Planning Manager

  • Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
  • TBD USD / Year
  • Abcam profile




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Abcam

Job Title: Supply Chain Planning Manager

Duration: Permanent

Location: Cambridge, UK

Agile Working: Hybrid working. Open to job share

About The Role

A business with 22% growth last year, top 5 in Glassdoor’s Best Companies to work for in the UK for 2 years and whose products help 64% of research scientists globally. If this could be the place for your next career move, read on!

After another internal promotion, we now have a great opportunity to join our Supply Chain team as our Supply Chain Planning Manager for the UK and covering EMEA. This role manages all supply chain production and materials planning activities, with a team of 9 and reporting directly to the Global Supply Planning Director.

Essential Responsibilities:

  • Lead and develop a team of material and production planners
  • Ensure Supply Chain KPI’s are achieved, reported and effectively communicated
  • Ensure your team execute site planning activities related to production planning and material planning, identify supply risks and propose mitigation options.
  • Set and Manage raw materials and intermediate inventory levels to optimize the balance of service vs inventory
  • Proactively work alongside the Demand Management team to:
  • Collaborate with the Global Supply Chain teams to identify areas of improvement and efficiencies.
  • Collaborate with the Procurement team to identify any supply risks and possible cost savings
  • Manage production performance data to highlight opportunities for improved efficiencies
  • Input to projects for strategic and operational improvement and performance

Role Requirements:

You are an experienced Supply Chain professional with production and materials planning skills from a high volume environment and likely to have a degree in a related discipline or a professional qualification such as APICS CSCP, MCIPS. You have managed both purchasing and suppliers and have ERP/MRP systems experience such as SAP or Oracle (an implementation would be really useful!).

You are a strong leader, able to motivate and engage your team, focused on the customer and delivery of KPI’s. Data is one of your passions so ability to use data visualization tools such as Tableau will be second nature. It goes without saying that solid experience with Microsoft Office, particularly Excel, is a must.

If this sounds like you and you’d like to be a part of a fast-paced, growing business with the vision to become the most influential company and best-loved brand in life sciences, please apply now!

Pay and Benefits

In addition to competitive salaries, we offer an attractive and flexible benefits package (including our free share scheme, 18 weeks full paid maternity leave and 6 weeks full paid paternity leave), a culture focused on well-being and opportunities for growth and development, and a highly flexible working environment.

About Us

An idea conceived in a University of Cambridge laboratory in 1998, Abcam plc (www.abcamplc.com) began life as an innovative and entrepreneurial start-up, spearheaded by like-minded individuals who shared a common purpose of providing the scientific community with quality antibody reagents, as well as trustworthy and up-to-date information about their uses and limitations. Abcam has now grown to become a leading supplier of protein research tools to life scientists, whilst always maintaining the core collaborative values assumed at its inception.

Abcam now supports life science researchers in their quest to understand the cause of disease and ultimately offer improvements to diagnoses and treatments. To achieve this outcome, the company both develops and manufactures its own products in specialist facilities across the globe, and sources from over 400 partners, offering scientists the newest, most innovative and highest quality research tools available globally, regardless of source. With a customer base of research scientists who require high performance products with detailed technical specifications, 64% of global researchers use Abcam products.

We are incredibly proud to be recognised as the ‘5th Best Place to Work in the UK in 2022’, as per Glassdoor’s Employees’ Choice Award. Our culture is driven by our dedicated, agile and audacious community of professionals who are driven by a combined purpose and sense of belonging.

What’s more, as a WORK180 Endorsed Employer, we are recognized globally as an organization that’s diverse, inclusive and supports women in the workplace.

Inclusion & Diversity

Abcam is an Equal Opportunity Employer and makes all employment decisions without regard to age, national origin, race, ethnicity, religion, creed, gender, sexual orientation, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Primary Location

GB-GB-Cambridge

Work Locations

Cambridge

Job

Supply Chain and Logistics

Organization

UK

Schedule

Regular

Shift

Standard

Job Type

Full-time

Travel

Yes, 5 % of the Time

Job Posting

Feb 24, 2022, 7:41:56 AM

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