Planning and Control Manager

AMS is a global workforce solutions partner committed to creating inclusive, dynamic, and future-ready workplaces. We help organisations adapt, grow, and thrive in an ever-evolving world by building, shaping, and optimising diverse talent strategies.

Our Contingent Workforce Solution (CWS) is one way we support our clients. Acting as an extension of their recruitment teams, we connect them with skilled interim and temporary professionals, fostering workplaces where everyone can contribute and succeed.

On behalf of our globally respected client who develop cutting-edge technologies that deliver clean, safe and competitive solutions to meet the planet''s vital power needs we are looking for a Planning and Control Manager for a 12 months contract based in Bristol. Please note that this role is going to be on a hybrid basis.

What you''ll do:

• As a Planning and Control Manager you will lead day-to-day planning and control activities across a portfolio of approximately 25 external Naval and Defence suppliers.
  
• Work directly with suppliers, including regular shop-floor engagement, to identify constraints, resolve delivery issues and improve operational performance.
• Manage supplier delivery performance, driving timely corrective actions and sustainable improvements to meet the client''s operational commitments.
  
• Lead Supplier Performance Reviews and Order Book Reviews, ensuring actions, risks and recovery plans are clearly documented and progressed.
• Use SAP and the client''s production system to monitor delivery, inventory, capacity and other key performance indicators.
• Develop and implement supplier recovery and improvement plans to address under-performance and protect delivery commitments across global programmes.
• Lead and develop the Planning and Control team, ensuring performance expectations, priorities and individual accountabilities are clearly understood.
• Identify short- and medium-term supply chain risks, including capacity, inventory, quality and delivery concerns, and coordinate appropriate mitigation plans.

As a Planning and Control Manager you''ll have:

• Experience in supply chain planning, production control, supplier management or a similar operational role.
• Demonstrable experience of improving supplier delivery performance, including developing and managing recovery plans.
• Strong working knowledge of SAP within a supply chain, materials planning or production environment.
• Previous experience within the marine, defence, aerospace or advanced manufacturing sectors.
• Confidence working directly with suppliers at both senior-management and shop-floor level to resolve operational issues.
• Strong leadership, stakeholder-management and analytical skills, with the ability to manage delivery, capacity, inventory and supply chain risks.

Next steps:

We will only accept workers operating via an Umbrella or PAYE engagement model.

If you are interested in applying for the Planning and Control Manager position and meet the criteria outlined above, please click the link to apply and we will contact you with an update in due course.

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