Head of Supply Chain – London – Food Industry
£85-£95k plus competitive package
This is a rare opportunity to join a well-invested food manufacturing business as a key member of the Senior Leadership Team, leading a Supply Chain function across planning and customer supply.
We're looking for an experienced supply chain leader who can balance strategic thinking with hands-on operational delivery. This role is about driving performance, embedding best practice, developing people and using data to support informed decision-making across the business.
With strong retailer relationships, a quality product portfolio and continued investment in both people and facilities, this is an exciting time to join a business committed to continuous improvement and sustainable growth.
The Role
As Head of Supply Chain, you will take ownership of the planning, and wider supply chain functions, ensuring products are delivered efficiently while supporting business growth, demand and capacity plans.
Key responsibilities include:
- Leading the supply chain function across planning, materials and customer supply.
- Managing and developing Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) processes.
- Driving supply chain improvements through effective change management.
- Developing capacity modelling capabilities and utilising data to support decision-making.
- Creating robust demand, production and materials planning processes.
- Identifying and mitigating risks across the supply base.
- Leading inbound and outbound logistics operations, including warehousing and distribution.
- Developing meaningful KPIs and ensuring accountability against performance metrics.
- Driving efficiencies across the supply chain to create more streamlined and scalable processes.
- Collaborating with senior stakeholders across operations, commercial, finance and group functions.
- Ensuring compliance with Safety, Health and Environmental standards.
- Building a high-performance culture focused on engagement, development and continuous improvement.
The Business:
- This is a fast-paced food manufacturer with long standing customer relationships.
- With a diverse and complex product portfolio the supply chain function is critical to the success of the site.
- Significant investment in the facilities and operation has had a positive impact and aids their future growth.
- Innovative and forward thinking in terms of culture and a strong commitment to CI, this is a progressive business to join.
What do you need in your background for this role?
- Senior supply chain leadership experience within Food Manufacturing or FMCG.
- Strong expertise across planning, materials management and customer supply.
- Experience of leading supply chain operations.
- Proven success in delivering operational improvements and managing change.
- Excellent stakeholder management skills with the confidence to operate at Senior Leadership Team level.
- Strong analytical and numerical capability, with experience using data to drive performance.
- A track record of developing, coaching and upskilling teams.
- Energy, resilience and a hands-on leadership style.
- The ability to make decisions at pace and deliver results in a fast-moving environment.
Please send your cv to Colette in the Novus Team to start the process for this senior supply chain opportunity.