Role: Supply Chain Controller

Location: Shoreham-by-Sea, UK

Role ID: 2025-3113

Our vision is to create a safe and sustainable world.

Ricardo plc is a global strategic, environmental, and engineering consulting company. With over 100 years of engineering excellence and employing close to 3,000 employees in more than 20 countries, we provide exceptional levels of expertise in delivering leading-edge and innovative cross-sector sustainable products and solutions. Every day, we enable our customers to solve the most complex and dynamic challenges to help achieve a safe and sustainable world.

The Role

You will join the existing Supply Chain Team in an established engine manufacturing business, working across both Purchasing and Material Control. Your responsibilities will include managing interactions with customers and suppliers, coordinating the supply of parts from a global network of over 90 suppliers, and supporting the production of a high-end, niche-volume product for one of the world’s leading supercar manufacturers.

Key Responsibilities

• Managing a number of suppliers within a Global Supply Chain.
• Ordering and expediting engine components
• Collaborating with other functions to resolve technical and quality concerns.
• Visiting suppliers to carry out Business Reviews in the UK and overseas
• Supporting the creation of supplier delivery schedules.
• Resolving commercial issues.
• Managing the supply of engine components to an external customer base.
• Purchase order administration support
• Assisting with continuous improvement of the purchasing processes

Key Competencies and Experience

• Experienced in Supplier management.
• Working knowledge of MRP/ERP systems
• Advanced Microsoft Office user, particularly Excel.
• Effective communication skills.
• Available to travel overseas with sufficient notice.
• Relevant Purchasing experience.
• Problem solving, analytical and listening skills
• Full Driving Licence.

Desirable Competencies and Experience

• Previous user of LN Infor ERP system.
• Experience in Supplier scheduling.
• Ability to read technical drawings.
• Experience of purchasing in the Automotive sector
• Project Management experience.

Working here

You will be warmly welcomed into our workplace where every voice matters. We are diverse thinkers and doers, coming together to create a culture of inclusion. We will support you to find your place.

We will encourage you to use your passion and expertise to make a positive impact through the projects you work on.  Your knowledge and desire to bring about change will be invaluable in helping deliver innovative solutions that support communities across the globe in becoming safer and more sustainable.

Work life balance 

We offer flexible approaches to work, whether that is working from home, being in the office, or as a hybrid worker. We're happy to discuss flexible working arrangements. Wellbeing is at the core to our culture, allowing employees to flourish and to achieve their full potential.

Benefits

We want you to know how much you are valued. Your remuneration and benefits package will reflect that. You will receive a range of benefits which include support for your physical and mental health. 

Our core benefits include 25 days' annual leave, plus 8 flexible bank holidays, a competitive company pension scheme, life assurance and professional subscriptions reimbursement. We also offer a wide range of flexible benefits to suit your lifestyle.

Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion statement

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person's potential, and we'll help you reach yours. We have an ambitious diversity, equality, and inclusion approach as explained here. We value diversity; recognising that a more diverse workforce creates a richer and more varied working environment. Diversity also drives innovation, by allowing us to offer our clients the best consultancy service that we can. As part of our commitment to engage positively and pro-actively with all our employees and to ensure an inclusive culture, we are a recognised as a 'disability confident' employer.

Next steps

Once you have submitted your application a member of our Recruitment Team will be in touch. Please be aware that the timing can vary dependent on the volume of applications that we receive for each role and in some cases, we may start to review applications prior to the closing date.

Ricardo is a Disability confident employer please advise the recruitment team via recruit@ricardo.com if you require any adjustments to support you throughout the recruitment process.

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