Supply Chain Administrator | Oakhouse
Company: | Pilgrim's UK |
Location: | Wiltshire |
Salary: | Competitive |
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About The Role
As a Supply Chain Assistant at Oakhouse Foods, you will be supporting the team by taking responsibility for managing third-party suppliers to maximize the availability of our products in the distribution centres. This is a part-time, temporary role reporting to the Head of Supply Chain.
In conjunction with key stakeholders, you will be responsible for delivering a high-quality and cost-efficient inbound supply chain through both operational and project management. You will be working as part of a growing and developing supply chain team, looking for continuous improvement within your role to simplify processes and maximize efficiencies.
This is a hybrid role based in Chippenham, Wiltshire, requiring you to be on-site a couple of days a week.
What You Will Be Doing
- Support in proactively monitoring supplier performance and developing vendors to improve on-time delivery, and product quality and reduce lead times.
- Assisting inventory control, when required, with any queries in goods receiving.
- Assisting the selection of new suppliers, and helping to establish supply agreements to the benefit of the organisation.
- The role will interface with the Oakhouse supply base.
- Will use this position to support the innovation in Oakhouse. While there will be multiple supplier interactions the role will help to manage the supplier relationship.
- Reviewing tender requests and presenting information to Buyers with recommended order placement.
- Updating procedures, work instructions and manuals as per requirements.
- Participating in meetings and keep up to date on issues related to purchase order delivery, vendor performance, metrics, capacity constraints and other related supply chain issues.
- Liaising closely with the product team for all items that will not meet the requirements of the campaign schedule and provide solutions as necessary.
- Supporting with the resolution of invoices pending payment promptly, by performing detailed analysis to identify the root cause of issue prohibiting invoice payment.
What You Will Need
- Highly organized and able to multitask
- Problem-solving and driving issues to close
- Strong attention to detail with good level of numeracy
- Anticipates the impact of change and rises to the challenge, with the ability to accept risk and uncertainty.
- Be willing to provide colleagues with the information they need to complete their tasks and eliminate roadblocks.
- A strong sense of customer focus.
- Anticipates the impact of change and rises to the challenge, with the ability to accept risk and uncertainty
The company
Pilgrim’s Pride Limited is a division of Pilgrim’s Pride Corporation, our business is part of the second largest food company in the world, whose team farm, process, prepare, package and deliver fresh, frozen and value-added food products for sale in more than 100 countries.
We are proud to partner with more than 1,000 UK farmers who share our belief in the highest standards on animal welfare, efficiency, and quality. Our own farming operation is 100% RSPCA Higher Welfare, making us the largest producer of higher welfare pork globally, delivering 25% of pig meat to UK consumers.