Supply Chain Subject Matter Expert (SME)

Job Title: Account Manager - Logistics
Location: Andover, Hants. + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: Up to £55,000 Depending on Experience
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF51101

At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Logistic Account Manager at our Andover or Donnington site.

The Role

As a Logistic Account Manager, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. Working where your knowledge and drive is really needed to make a difference, an exciting New Project with international exposure. You will be integral to the working and function of the Equipment Support Cell and their integration, communication and problem solving with the technical SMEs is key to the success of the team.

Day to day, you will be responsible for the control and management of the Supply Chain, provisioning of spares and its delivery to support maintenance in order to sustain the necessary level of availability of the equipment fleet.

• Provide point of contact for Supply Chain in UK and overseas.
• Attend the Supply Chain Meeting and leads on priorities within the Supply Chain.
• Manage and prioritise incoming spares demands
• Responsible for spares escalation, in accordance with customer priorities
• Responsible for warehouse assurance and audit.
• Connects Supply Chain expertise with Engineering SMEs.
• Report on metrics and progress on a weekly and monthly basis.
• Work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment demonstrating teamwork, innovation, and excellence.
• Participate in establishing practices, templates, policies, tools, and partnerships to expand and mature these capabilities for the organisation.
• Demonstrate a functional and technical acumen to support how solutions will address customer needs while maintaining alignment with engineering policy and best practices.

Essential experience of the Logistic Account Manager:

• Military Logistician with Reverse Supply Chain experience (highly desirable)
• Strong communication skills with the ability to lead up, across and down multiple business and operational functions in the organisation
• Proven ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment demonstrating teamwork, innovation, and excellence
• Build and maintain relationships to establish credibility, solve problems, build consensus, and achieve solutions.
• Self-motivated, decisive, with the ability to adapt to change and competing demands

This is a full-time role, 37 hours. We offer a hybrid working arrangement.

Qualifications for the Logistic Account Manager:

• Preferably educated to degree level with a Supply Chain or Logistics degree or similar qualification, or equivalent level of relevant experience

The successful candidate must be able to achieve SC security clearance for this role.

Our Benefits

• Generous holiday allowance
• Matched contribution pension scheme up to 8% of salary, with life assurance
• Employee share scheme
• Employee shopping savings portal
• Payment of Professional Fees
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement
• ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity

Babcock International

For over 130 years Babcock International have helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal.

If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please let us know. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working - please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

Closing date: 10/08/2023

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