Job Description

Job Title: Planning & Delivery Leader

Working Pattern: Full-time

Location: Derby/Hybrid – 3 days on-site

Rolls-Royce are recruiting for a Planning & Delivery Leader to join their team in Derby. The Planning and delivery leader will be responsible for ensuring the planning and on time delivery of a defined portfolio of components across the full product lifecycle.

Why Rolls-Royce?

Rolls-Royce is one of the most enduring and iconic brands in the world and has been at the forefront of innovation for over a century. We design, build and service systems that provide critical power to customers where safety and reliability are paramount.

We are proud to be a force for progress, powering, protecting and connecting people everywhere.

We want to ensure that the excellence and ingenuity that has shaped our history continues into our future and we need people like you to come and join us on this journey.

We’ll provide an environment of caring and belonging where you can be yourself. An inclusive, innovative culture that invests in you, gives you access to an incredible breadth and depth of opportunities where you can grow your career and make a difference.

What we offer

We offer excellent development opportunities, a competitive salary, and exceptional benefits. These include bonus, employee support assistance and employee discounts.

Your needs are as unique as you are. Hybrid working is a way in which our people can balance their time between the office, home, or another remote location.  It’s a locally managed and flexed informal discretionary arrangement.  As a minimum we’re all expected to attend the workplace for collaboration and other specific reasons, on average three days per week.

What you will be doing:

Be the first point of contact with regards to delivery for the external supply chain and internal stakeholders.Perform regular and accurate management of the demand schedule to ensure correct flow down to suppliers and delivery commitments/forecasts to Rolls-Royce.Identify and mitigate risks associated with supplier delivery.Lead Order Book Reviews, confirming that suppliers have the required capacity, material and production schedule to support customer requirements.Regularly visit suppliers to understand current status to agreed plans and identify where risks could occur.Work with other functions to ensure items which could impact on a supplier’s ability to deliver are resolved, including but not limited to invoice clearance, commercial disputes, technical/quality queries or insufficient purchase order coverage.Create and execute (forecast) arrears recovery plans for parts/suppliers who are behind plan, utilising an appropriate suite of planning and control tools.

Who we’re looking for

At Rolls-Royce we put safety first, do the right thing, keep it simple and make a difference. These principles form the behaviours that guide us and are an essential component of our assessment process. They are the fundamental qualities that we seek for all roles. To be successful in this role you must be:

Educated to degree level in a numerate or business discipline or will have equivalent business experience within planning, manufacturing or supply chain.Membership of a relevant professional body or institute would be desirable e.g., APICS CPIM.A proficient user of Microsoft Office applications (Excel is essential) with working knowledge of an ERP system, preferably SAP MRP, Production Planning & Material Management.An understanding of load and capacity planning.Data analysis and decision-making skills, comfortable dealing with ambiguity.The ability to communicate with all parts of the business including internal and external stakeholders.

We are an equal opportunities employer. We’re committed to developing a diverse workforce and an inclusive working environment. We believe that people from different backgrounds and cultures give us different perspectives which are crucial to innovation and problem solving. We believe the more diverse perspectives we have, the more successful we’ll be. By building a culture of caring and belonging, we give everyone who works here the opportunity to realise their full potential.

We welcome applications from people with a refugee background.

You can learn more about our global Inclusion strategy at Our people | Rolls-Royce

Job Category

Supply Chain Planning & Control

Posting Date

10 Feb 2025; 00:02

Posting End Date

23 Feb 2025