Supply Chain Manager - Employment,career opportunity in UK

Job Title:  Supply Chain Manager - London - hyphen
Job Type:    Permanent
Location:    City of London
Start Date:    ASAP
Salary:    £35k - £40k pa
Ref No:    196489-SCMHY_612965
Date Posted:    24th Oct 2013


hyphen are looking for a dedicated Workstream Lead to manage the establishment of Supply Chain for New Client Implementations (NCI) and account expansion in established hyphen accounts. To ensure that hyphen's supply chain minimises business risk by ensuring the correct flow down of liability provisions, credit exposure etc. To provide subject matter expertise in strategic sourcing, supplier selection, supplier/relationship management, supply chain rationalisation, supply market dynamics.

Essential Qualifications and Experience:

Recruitment Industry Experience
Strategic sourcing and supply chain management experience
Specific category/market knowledge related to recruitment/staffing suppliers
Strong knowledge of recruiting/sourcing processes and organisation, processes, systems and tools
Contract negotiation and maintenance
Understanding of supplier performance management
Relationship management experience to senior levels

Skills:

Management of supply chains
Relationship management; ability to build and maintain relationships at operational and strategic level.
Negotiation and closing skills
Preparing and delivering presentations, Report and Proposals writing
Analyse and extract data, Highly numerate
Prioritising and time management
Computer literate (Intermediate MS-Office skills)
Assertiveness; handling conflict
Adapting communication styles; written and verbal

Additional information:

Role requires travel to all on site locations and supplier offices

Knowledge:

Strategic sourcing and/or formal supply chain management methodologies
Client KPIs and SLAs; creation and monitoring of supply chain
Contract law and employment law related to the supply of temporary and permanent staff
End to end recruitment process
Relevant market knowledge; competitor knowledge; relevant recruitment sector and industry knowledge.

The delivery of cost savings, rate and price benchmarking and gain share


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