Senior Supply Chain Manager

Role Overview

• Own end-to-end supply planning
• Translate rolling commercial forecasts into robust supply and procurement plans across finished goods, raw materials, and packaging.
• Convert SKU-level demand into ingredient and component procurement plans to ensure continuity of supply.
• Build and manage a disciplined production planning cadence with co-manufacturers, ensuring materials, bookings, and timelines align to deliver OTIF production.
• Maintain clear visibility of stock coverage, inventory exposure, and forward risk.
• Build scalable systems and discipline
• Design and embed robust supply planning processes fit for high-growth scale.
• Maintain end-to-end visibility of stock across the entire supply chain.
• Lead ERP implementation or optimisation, ensuring strong data integrity and clear reporting dashboards for stock, risk, service levels, and cost tracking.
• Own the Operations inputs and outputs within our existing S&OP cadence, ensuring supply plans, stock risks, and production capacity are clearly represented and aligned with Growth and Finance.
• Own supplier and co-manufacturer performance
• Lead commercial relationships with co-manufacturers and key suppliers, negotiating pricing, lead times, MOQs, and service levels.
• Monitor supplier performance, drive accountability, and resolve operational challenges decisively.
• Protect margin and reduce risk
• Own operational inputs into COGS, tracking cost changes, yields, and wastage.
• Lead cost optimisation initiatives and identify supply-side risks early, implementing mitigation strategies (dual sourcing, safety stock, contingency planning).
• Strengthen upstream resilience as we expand across retail and international markets.
• Enable launches and growth
• Partner with Technical and Product on NPD and EPD launches, ensuring new SKUs are fully costed, planned, and supply-secure.
• Work closely with downstream Operations and 3PL partners to ensure seamless transition from production to fulfilment.

Requirements

• Proven experience scaling supply chains within a fast-growth FMCG or challenger brand environment.
• Strong background in procurement, supply planning, or production management.
• Demonstrable experience building and managing rolling supply plans across multiple SKUs.
• Experience translating demand forecasts into raw material and component procurement plans.
• Advanced Excel capability, comfortable building, stress-testing, and refining complex planning models.
• Experience implementing or significantly improving ERP or supply planning systems.
• Strong commercial acumen with hands-on experience negotiating suppliers and managing COGS.
• A disciplined, forward-looking mindset with exceptional attention to detail.
• The ability to operate both strategically and in the detail.
• Clear communication skills and confidence partnering cross-functionally with Finance, Growth, Technical, and Operations.

Tech Stack

• ERP

Benefits

• Share Options Programme: Equivalent to 15% of salary from day one
• Annual Leave: 25 days per year
• Summer Hours: Early finish Fridays (June–August)
• Work From Anywhere: Up to 2 weeks per year
• Pension: 5% matched contribution
• Cycle Scheme: Bike or Lime/Forest Pass
• Personal Development: £300 annual allowance for approved training
• Wellbeing Support: Access to Spill app & Heka allowance (£40/month) + birthday/work anniversary boosts
• Free access to Fora gym and classes.
• Annual Team Trip: Gastronomical & wellbeing-focused team away trip
• Parental Leave: Competitive maternity/paternity package