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Gloucester, GB

Gloucester, GB

• Lead a team of Supplier Delivery professionals in pursuit of business goals, strategies and initiatives.
• Accountable for metrics demonstrating the performance of the supply base, identifying shortcomings and developing strategies built around Lean initiatives to drive improvement.
• Maintain, enhance and drive improvement of supplier on time delivery metrics
• Drive accountability for operational excellence across the team and from the business’ supply base.
• Interpret internal and external business challenges, recommending process and service improvements.
• Implement standard work and operating rhythms to ensure that the business is able to perform and provide an optimum service to our customers.

Birmingham International Airport, England, GB

• Establish, manage, and direct the Airlines AOG Department, providing 24/7 technical material support to the airlines maintenance operation.
• Develop internal sourcing and procurement procedures, including implementing the Financial Delegation of Authority.
• Ensure the department remained compliant within
• Manage key component support contracts from end to end. Conducting continuous reviews of support against SLAs and analysing usage in conjunction with key stakeholders. Managing the entire Contract Life Cycle.
• Primary commercial contact point for main element maintenance contracts including engines and landing gear.
• Develop and establish logistical support including the import and export of commercial aircraft as well as commercial aviation components and material, both within the airlines network and to external third parties.

Fishers, Indiana, US

• Develop and coordinate worldwide supply chains.
• Manage a portfolio of products, ensuring on-time delivery and active supplier relationship management.
• Monitoring Supplier performance, resolving issues as they arise, and escalating queries where necessary.
• Working in conjunction with product management and New Product Integration.
• Identify cost-saving opportunities within the market through spend analysis and work with the Procurement and Product Managers to deliver cost-saving initiatives.
• Support the purchasing team and business for product alternatives and mitigate the impact on the business

Coventry, England, GB

• Establish and develop relationships with both internal and external suppliers.
• Manage and monitor supplier performance against SLAs while managing the supply chain.
• Ensure the supplier passed on and adhered to any specific customer regulatory requirements or flow-downs.
• Ensure alignment between the companies’ and suppliers’ order books by conducting weekly alignment calls to coordinate updates with key stakeholders.
• Work with the Supplier Development Team and suppliers to identify and resolve technical and process issues impacting performance.

Birmingham International Airport, England, GB

• Responsible manager for the airline’s 24/7 Material and Logistics support team, including Aircraft On Ground response.
• Deputising for the Head of Logistics in their absence and developing a succession plan.
• Manage and develop the supply chain for the network, being accountable for sourcing all material requirements and managing their flow in and out of business.
• Ensure safety and compliance at all times, including procedural reviews, training, and competency of the Airline Spares team.
• Responsible for ensuring all planned tasks are resourced and agreed upon before overnight maintenance.
• Day-to-day management of contracted and subcontracted material suppliers, ensuring that both sides maintained agreed SLAs through formal contractual reviews and ad-hoc continuous communication.

Birmingham International Airport, England, GB

• Establish the material requirements and forecast the material availability to assist in developing schedules to complete the workload within agreed quality, cost, and timeframes.
• Provide material scheduling support for the Flybe fleet, working with key stakeholders to ensure base maintenance inputs were adequately resourced.
• Ensure sufficient records and reports are kept supporting changes to and the different contractual needs of providers.
• Provide unscheduled material forecast function to base maintenance inputs.
• Review and identify trending patterns and resulting shortfalls.
• Carry out analysis of material consumptions and suggest mitigation to overcome future shortfalls.

Birmingham International Airport, England, GB

• Support the department in delivering 24-hour material support to the Flybe fleet. Source and order Material and ground support equipment/tooling requirements to meet operational needs and priority, including in.
• Provide material and logistics support. Action all applicable requisitions and orders/ repair orders.
• Follow up on all open orders. Ensuring continuous updates were supplied to Maintenance Control.
• Coordinate the return of unserviceable line replaceable units to distribution centers. Maintaining daily progress reports of all open LRU orders ensuring timely returns in accordance with contract conditions.
• Manage line station restocks. Ensuring all base stock holdings are resupplied.
• Coordinate the redeployment of assets dependent on operational need and assist in creating business cases for new high-cost items.

Birmingham International Airport, England, GB

Bracknell, Berkshire, GB

Winsford, GB