Deadline: 19 January 2016
Save the Children is currently seeking applications from the eligible applicants for the post of Director, Supply Chain in London, United Kingdom.
The Director, Supply Chain will be required to increase the capacity of supply chain operations ‘in-country’ and capability across the organization.
Save the Children works to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children and to achieve immediate and lasting change in their lives.
Key Jobs Responsibilities
The Director, Supply Chain will perform the following functions-
- Develop the strategy for supply chain (procurement, logistics, planning). Including operational process and organizational design, capacity building of people, systems and information that will meet strategic imperatives.
- Build a business case that sets out the costs and benefits, including savings targets and an implementation plan that can be tracked through to delivery.
- Engage with key stakeholders across the organization and build the necessary support to drive implementation of this strategy, which will be a part of a cross-functional business strategy to reduce cost, complexity and stress.
- Establish supply plans which will match demand, defining inventory levels and locations, agreeing, measuring and achieving supply chain service levels.
- Define and deliver a planning function capable of understanding demand, creating effective supply plans, defining and setting inventory policy.
- Develop and manage spend and savings targets, including the development of a sourcing pipeline and measurement of performance against targets.
- Identify and develop supplier strategic partnerships to innovatively draw on the strength of private sector organizations.
- Establish and manage internal senior client relationships, including at the board level.
- Influence senior stakeholders and ensure early engagement of procurement in the planning of spend.
- Management of the global procurement and logistics teams, including recruitment, retention, training and the development of professional teams.
- Create an environment of continuous learning where staff are encouraged and supported to grow and develop, and are willing to be held accountable for their commitments.
- Define a new global supply chain operating model, integrating logistics and procurement. Inclusive of warehousing, transportation, planning, sourcing, risk management, supplier relationship management and supply chain systems.
- Ensure global compliance to all applicable supply chain policies and guidelines, including interpretation of regulatory, legislative, ethical and sustainable agendas.
- Ensure that donor requirements pertaining to supply chain activities are known, understood, and applied; that compliance can be demonstrated.
Eligibility Criteria
Applicants must have-
- Proven senior leadership experience within supply chain functions in large, complex organizations.
- An understanding of best practice within Supply Chains, in either industry or NGO; familiar with best practice in planning, logistics and procurement operations at an international level.
- Previous experience in developing and delivering a Supply Chain strategy.
- Experience of leading functional development and large scale organizational change.
- A proven ability to forge consensus and drive action.
- Ability to build credibility quickly, and communicate with impact; demonstrable experience of influencing at Director and senior management level.
- Strong business acumen and the ability to make strategic decisions.
- Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills.
- Ability to build personal networks both inside the organization and out, resulting in new opportunities for the organization.
How to Apply
Applicants must submit their CV and covering letter including their salary expectations for this role in English, as a single document, through online process.
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