Overview:
**Morgan Advanced Materials** is a business rich in history and innovation. Founded in the UK in 1856, we have grown into a global organisation with 70 sites in 18 countries. Our model to serve our customers where they need us has led to a diversified product range using our unparalleled expertise in ceramic and carbon materials, which we exploit to solve difficult problems for our customers across a diverse range of markets.
We are a purpose driven organisation. Our purpose is to use advanced materials to make the world more sustainable and to improve the quality of life. We deliver on that purpose through the products that we make, and the way that we make them.
The **Technical Ceramics** business of Morgan Advanced Materials engineers high performance functional and structural ceramic materials, components and sub-assemblies to address customer-specific technical challenges.
**Key Figures**: Revenue £1,114.7m (2023), ~8,500 employees, manufacturing in 20+ countries, and a global customer portfolio. A UK PLC with head office located in Windsor, Berkshire UK. Listed on London Stock Exchange; Member of the FTSE 250 Index.
**Responsibilities**:
**Job Purpose**
To oversee and manage day to day overall supply chain operations - maximize efficiency, reduce risk, and minimize cost of organization's supply chain. Work effectively with the plant operations teams, engineering, and accounting to deliver on customer (both internal and external) demands. Coach and mentor site level supply chain personnel in professional growth and retention.
**Summary**
This position is hands on and directly accountable for the Supply Chain activities of Purchasing, Production Planning, Inventory Control, Warehousing, Shipping, Receiving, Distribution, and Logistics. This position is a direct report to the Site Leader and influences decision making with or without authority, facilitates groups with diverse perspectives, and brings teams to agreement. This position is required to be on-site and have a hands-on approach to supply chain management. This role will be the Primary Customer contact. This role will be instrumental in the start up and development of the Supply Chain for this location including ERP transition and implementation.
**Essential Duties and Responsibilities**
- SIOP and Production Planning Management_ - Works to develop and deploy BU Sales, Inventory, Operations, & Planning process, per the Morgan Production System, including but not limited to:
- Direct management of the planning processes and resources.
- Ownership of SIOP process including managing SIOP meetings, data accuracy and availability, developing SIOP tools, and subsequent communication of planning outcomes to relevant stakeholders (i.e. operations, commercial, and NPI teams).
- Leads Site Planning function monthly adjustment cycle to translate the Long Range Plan into Daily and Medium Range Plans in order to create and maintain an accurate Master Production Schedule that continually meets the forecast demand.
- Issue manufacturing work orders based on Master Production Schedule, monitor work order variances, utilizing process and discrete manufacturing and rate scheduling.
- Collaborate cross-functionally in product lifecycle planning (ramp up/ramp down planning), on formalizing supply commits, understand gating constraints, and in formulating effective mitigation strategies to balance supply with demand
- Analyze data, including enterprise requirements planning information and prepares consolidated managerial reports, as needed, to facilitate and recommend actions that ensure plant/product line optimal Supply Chain execution.
- Maintains the BU level LeanDNA Supply Chain Analytics and SIOP Effectiveness metrics.
- Develop and execute a system to integrate best-practice SIOP/planning processes into new ERP system.
- Inventory, Warehouse, and Shipping/Receiving Management_ - Supports key Strategy Deployment projects with goals to manage inventory for accuracy and optimum levels.
- Maintain shipping, receiving, staging, kitting and storage areas that are compliant, efficient and safe.
- Manages all cycle-counting and full inventory functions at all manufacturing and warehouse locations.
- Direct management responsibility of kitting and shipping/receiving staff members.
- Develop and execute plans to hit working capital targets (ex. Achieve inventory turn targets, E&O management) and meet customer agreement frameworks (ex. LTA inventory clauses) including stock management and consignment management.
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- Procurement_ _Management_- Responsible for forecasting, material procurement, production planning, rate setting, cost savings, outsourcing and vendor management.
- Direct management of full site procurement team including Buyer roles.
- Collaborate with multiple-functional managers and global planning teams to implement good planning practices including level loading, time fencing, and other planning strategies
- Plans, manages, and co