Group Supply Chain Director

Position: Group Supply Chain Director (Permanent)
COMPANY BACKGROUND:

SLINGCO is an award-winning supplier of high-quality tools and accessories for the installation and handling of cable, with over 40 years of industry heritage. We serve customers in over 70 countries worldwide from our head office in Lancashire, UK, and bases in Georgia, USA, and Bengaluru, India.

Our products are used in safety critical applications for a wide range of markets. With sectors including oil & gas, civil engineering, aerospace, transport, utilities, marine/offshore and the military – there’s no room for error. That’s why we do everything with the utmost care and precision.

We design and manufacture to the highest specifications and test to destruction. If our products don’t meet and exceed the most stringent national and international standards, they’re not good enough for our customers.

At Slingco, our goal is to create innovative high-quality products that our customers can depend on, whilst providing a positive experience for our customers and our employees. Every aspect of our work, culture and commitment to innovation is driven by our core values.

LOCATION:

Onsite at Slingco's Head Office in Rawtenstall, Lancashire

BENEFITS:

Company Car/Car Allowance

Company Pension – Enhanced Employer Contributions

33 Days Annual Leave – Increasing to 38, inclusive of Bank Holidays

Birthday Off

BUPA Medical Cover

Life Insurance (x4 salary)

Onsite Parking

Gym Membership

Cycle to Work Scheme

Employee Loan Scheme

Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)

POSITION SUMMARY:

The Group Supply Chain Director is responsible for overseeing all aspects of the global supply chain operations, including the design and leadership of a scalable and resilient global supply chain capability that enables rapid growth through new products and new routes to market—delivering reliable customer promise (OTIF/OTD), optimised working capital, controlled supply risk, and strengthened supplier performance across a multi-region footprint.

KEY

DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

Create and Own the Global Supply Chain Strategy & Blueprint to deliver a future state supply chain plan aligned to growth, resilience, costs and services outcomes

Build, lead, and develop a high-performing global supply chain team, setting clear roles, goals, and performance expectations, ensuring capability development, engagement, and succession planning to ensure organisational effectiveness and talent retention

Lead Integrated Business Planning (IBP & S&OP), to establish and run a governance cadence that aligns demand, supply, inventory and capacity —presenting scenarios and trade-offs at Exec level

Define Inventory Strategy (right stock, right place, right time) setting inventory policies (service vs working capital), reduce obsolescence risk, and improve global stock positioning—especially across multi-site flows

Strategic Sourcing & Contracting building category strategies, negotiate and manage supplier contracts, and optimise total cost (incl. landed cost and tariff/geopolitical exposure where relevant)

Own end-to-end Planning (Demand, Supply, Inventory, Capacity) to improve forecast accuracy and supply responsiveness; build capacity visibility across internal manufacturing and key suppliers

Supplier Performance Management (OTIF, lead time, reliability) implementing supplier segmentation, scorecards, and governance; drive corrective actions and performance recovery for critical suppliers

Supplier Development & Supply-Base Capability Uplift across all manufacturing and development activities

Supplier Quality Leadership (SQE) with Clear Governance. Ensure supplier quality engineering is embedded into sourcing and supplier management while aligning to Quality standards / release authority

Logistics & Distribution Performance (working with Operations/Regions), reducing dependency on premium freight; set freight and distribution strategy and ensure network execution supports promise dates and growth

Data, Systems & KPI Framework Improve planning/data maturity across fragmented systems; define KPIs and cadence (forecast accuracy, OTIF/OTD, inventory turns, supplier OTIF, expedite freight, COGS) and drive performance visibility

General:

Support projects and carry out…