Senior Supply Chain Manager

Barrow-in-furness, Cumbria
1st Executive Ltd
Senior Supply Chain Manager

Location: Barrow in Furness (Hybrid & Flexible Working Available). Salary: Up to £65,000 Car Allowance + Excellent Benefits

This is your opportunity to take ownership within a high tech defence manufacturing environment, delivering at scale on one of the UK’s most complex and strategically significant programmes. Work on a long term, nationally significant programme with real world impact. Joining a stable, well funded environment with long term career growth and progression. If you’re an experienced supply chain professional ready to step into a high impact leadership role, this is where your expertise will shape outcomes on a national scale.

What’s In It For You

• Competitive salary + car allowance
• Strong pension offering
• Private healthcare and wellbeing benefits
• Flexible benefits including green car schemes and lifestyle discounts
• Annual incentive opportunities
• Relocation support available (subject to eligibility)

What You’ll Be Driving

You’ll take the lead across a critical supplier landscape, ensuring delivery, performance, and strategic alignment across a major programme.

• Lead and inspire a team of supply chain professionals, managers and subcontractors to deliver against an ambitious supply chain strategy
• Own and manage a portfolio of business critical suppliers, ensuring performance, resilience and value
• Build powerful relationships across internal functions and external partners to drive programme success
• Negotiate complex, high value contracts within regulated defence and government frameworks
• Develop and execute robust Contract Management Plans that ensure control, compliance and continuous improvement
• Hold accountability for supplier performance-past, present and future-ensuring delivery against key metrics

What You Bring

You’re already operating at a senior level and thrive in complex, high stakes environments.

• 5+ years’ experience in procurement or supply chain within large scale programmes, defence manufacturing or major subcontracting environments
• Strong track record in contract strategy, negotiation and supplier management
• Proven leadership capability – able to build, develop and motivate high performing teams
• Commercially astute, confident operating within structured and regulated frameworks with a mindset that values collaboration, innovation and diversity of thought

Applicants must be based in the UK to commit to the hybrid working requirement and hold current/valid UK RTW. All applicants must, as a minimum, achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard/security vetting checks.