Supply Chain SIOP Leader

Falmouth, England, United Kingdom

12/23/2024

Job Title: Supply Chain SIOP Leader

Location: Watson Marlow - Bickland Water Road

Location Type: On-Site

Website: https://www.wmfts.com/en/

Group: https://www.spiraxgroup.com/

When you join Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Solutions, a part of the Spirax Group, you will be integrated into a cooperative and encouraging team, participate in challenging yet critical work, and experience ongoing growth opportunities to help you achieve your full potential. Visit our website to learn more.

Role Summary

This role will focus on:

The SIOP (Sales, Inventory, and Operations Planning) Lead will be a key strategic and operational leader at WMFTS, responsible for developing, implementing, and optimising the SIOP process across the organisation. This role requires a proactive leader with strong analytical, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills to drive business efficiency, align supply chain capabilities with market demands, and ensure effective resource utilisation.

What You’ll Be Doing

• SIOP Strategy Development:
  
  

Embrace and lead the SIOP process, ensuring alignment with company objectives, customer requirements, and operational capabilities.

Develop short to long term strategies for inventory management, demand planning, and production scheduling to improve service levels and cost efficiency.

Collaborate across WMFTS & Spirax Group as a key member of the WMFTS SIOP SDT (Self Directed Team) and engage with SIOP develop including evaluation and integration of new tools into the business.

• Demand Planning:
  
  

Collaborate with sales, marketing, and customer service teams to create accurate demand forecasts.

Analyse market trends, historical data, and customer feedback to drive data-driven forecasting decisions.

• Supply Planning:
  
  

Create and publish the Master Production Schedule.

• Supply Chain Optimisation:
  
  

Partner with supply chain, production, and procurement teams to ensure production plans meet demand requirements efficiently.

Identify and address potential supply chain risks, ensuring continuity and resilience.

• Cross-Functional Collaboration:
  
  

Act as a liaison between operations, sales, finance, and other departments to align business priorities.

Facilitate SIOP meetings, presenting data and insights to drive consensus and decision-making.

• KPI Tracking and Reporting:
  
  

Develop and introduce business analytics for increased SC visibility, health and decision making.

Develop, agree and monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) to assess the effectiveness of the SIOP process.

Provide regular reports to the Senor Leadership Team (SLT), highlighting trends, challenges, and opportunities for improvement.

• Continuous Improvement:
  
  

Deliver training and coaching across the business on the roles and responsibilities within the SIOP process.

Identify opportunities to enhance SIOP processes through technology, tools, and best practices.

Drive initiatives to improve forecast accuracy, reduce lead times, and optimise inventory levels.

You will collaborate with a range of key stakeholders across the organisation, developing open and effective relationships to ensure high performance. Accordingly, building strong relationships with key functions will be key to success, including;

Sourcing, Manufacturing, Quality & Compliance, EHS, NPI, SBD, Sustainability & Sales.

To Be Successful In This Role, You Will Need

• Be professionally qualified. APICS/ASCM CPIM or CSCP certification.
• Experience in fluid technology or a related industry.
• Familiarity with lean manufacturing and continuous improvement methodologies.
• Strategic thinker with a strong operational focus.
• Results-driven, with the ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
• Collaborative mindset with the ability to influence and lead cross-functional teams.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with expertise in data analysis and forecasting.
• Advanced in Excel and BI data analytics.
• Proficiency in ERP and SIOP-related tools (e.g. Microsoft AX / D365, SAP, Oracle, Kinaxis, or similar).
• Excellent communication, leadership, and interpersonal skills to engage stakeholders at all levels.
  
  

At Watson-Marlow, we believe in taking care of our colleagues. We offer a generous benefits package, including:

• A competitive salary
• Flexible working arrangements
• A generous holiday allowance
• Three days’ paid volunteering leave
• Comprehensive private healthcare
• An enhanced retirement plan
• Life assurance
• Additional support and benefits through our Everyone is Included Group Inclusion Plan
  
  

Everyone is Included at Spirax Group

We are passionate about creating inclusive and equitable working cultures where everyone can be themselves and achieve their full potential. For us, that means supportive teams and strong relationships where everyone’s contribution is valued across social and cultural backgrounds, ethnicities, ages, genders, gender identities, abilities, neurodiversity, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, and everything else that makes us human and unique.

Benefits

We know that everyone needs some extra help from time to time, so we have introduced a range of additional benefits through our Group Inclusion Commitments. These include:

• G ender-neutral parental leave
• 15 days of extra paid caregiver leave
• Paid time off and support for anyone experiencing pregnancy loss or domestic abuse
• Menopause-friendly workplace principles and more.
  
  

Learn more at Our Inclusion Commitments .

Company Overview

At Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Solutions, we are driven by innovation and are dedicated to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone is empowered to make a difference. As a world leader in manufacturing peristaltic pumps and associated fluid path technologies for the life sciences and process industries, we offer a wide range of products, including tubing, specialised filling systems and products for single-use applications.

Watson-Marlow is part of Spirax Group, a FTSE100 and FTSE4Good multi-national industrial engineering Group with expertise in the control and management of steam, electric thermal solutions, peristaltic pumping and associated fluid technologies.

Our purpose is to create sustainable value for all our stakeholders as we engineer a more efficient, safer and sustainable world. Our technologies play an essential role in critical industrial processes and industrial equipment across industries as diverse as Food & Beverage, Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology, Power Generation, Semiconductors and Healthcare. With customers in 165 countries, we provide the solutions that sit behind the production of many items used in daily life, from baked beans to mobile phones!

Our inclusive culture and values, unites us, guides our decisions and inspires us everywhere that we operate. We support our colleagues to make their difference for each other as well as customers, communities, suppliers, our planet and shareholders by creating a truly equitable working environment where everyone feels included.